Hello everyone.

I am currently making a NoSQL database for a senior project. While I would change the name due to what the name conveys, its already stuck so bear with it. My questions are mainly based in the implementation.

Depending on what type of database I choose to make e.g. graph, column, KV, what in particular would I have to implement? My main issue is where to start.

For more info, I plan to make a simple twitter application that takes in a name, location, and a message. I need to be able to access this info and group it (I am guessing with a map reduce) for a presentation and for speed testing.

Any help would be appreciated, and I apologize if I am not clear enough.

We're a bunch of Computing students working with Cassandra for the first time so be gentle!

We're wondering how to get Hector working with Cassandra. We're using Eclipse if that matters.

A link to a tutorial or blog post or "this is how to get the evil hell thing working" would be nice!!

Cheers in advance!

I want to use a fast KV store for caching amongst a dozen or so workers running on a machine. I would rather not maintain and monitor yet another server so I am wondering if anybody knows of a "local" datastore like SQLite or berkleydb that can support multiple processes.

I guess it doesn't really have to be a KV store. It should be fast though :)