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Learning Apache Cassandra

You're reading from   Learning Apache Cassandra Build an efficient, scalable, fault-tolerant, and highly-available data layer into your application using Cassandra

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783989201
Length 246 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Matthew Brown Matthew Brown
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Up and Running with Cassandra FREE CHAPTER 2. The First Table 3. Organizing Related Data 4. Beyond Key-Value Lookup 5. Establishing Relationships 6. Denormalizing Data for Maximum Performance 7. Expanding Your Data Model 8. Collections, Tuples, and User-defined Types 9. Aggregating Time-Series Data 10. How Cassandra Distributes Data A. Peeking Under the Hood B. Authentication and Authorization Index

Chapter 1. Getting Up and Running with Cassandra

As an application developer, you have almost certainly worked with databases extensively. You must have built products using relational databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, and perhaps experimented with a document store like MongoDB or a key-value database like Redis. While each of these tools has its strengths, you will now consider whether a distributed database like Cassandra might be the best choice for the task at hand.

In this chapter, we'll talk about the major reasons to choose Cassandra from among the many database options available to you. Having established that Cassandra is a great choice, we'll go through the nuts and bolts of getting a local Cassandra installation up and running. By the end of this chapter, you'll know:

  • When and why Cassandra is a good choice for your application
  • How to install Cassandra on your development machine
  • How to interact with Cassandra using cqlsh
  • How to create a keyspace
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Learning Apache Cassandra
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