Did you ever hear a claim that sounded too bad to be true?
So this past Tuesday at Velocity 2010, Brett Piatt gave a workshop on the Cassandra database. I was seated in the audience and quite interested in everything he had to say about running Cassandra, given that I’ve been working on adding Cassandra and other scalable data stores to Ubuntu.

Then at one point, up popped a table that made me curious.
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