1. About Cassandra : Cassandra is an open source distributed database management system. It is an Apache Software Foundation top-level project designed to handle very large amounts of data spread out across many commodity servers while providing a highly available service with no single point of failure. It is a No SQL solution that was initially developed by Facebook and powers their Inbox Search feature. Want to Know more? Visit Cassandra database Apache Cassandra 2 . Cassandra Installation on WindowsXP First we need to download Cassandra. For Download Cassandra Click this link Download . Now unzip the file and put it into a drive where you want to install Cassandra .you can change the folder name cause deafult name is "apache-cassandra-0.5.1" .its to long to remember easily.So i change my unzip folder name to "cassandra". Now we have our Cassandra in a spacific drive.Lets go install and configur Cassandra database on windowsXP .You need to insta...