The document discusses PHP and Cassandra. It provides an introduction to Cassandra including what it is, where it came from, and its key advantages. It then discusses how to model data in Cassandra and provides examples of creating a keyspace and column family. The document also discusses different PHP libraries for interacting with Cassandra like PHPCassa and using Thrift directly. It provides examples of basic operations like insert, select, delete and more using these different PHP libraries.