Who this book is for

This book is written keeping in mind developers at both beginner and intermediate level. It also includes topics on maintenance and fine tuning Cassandra also debugging your queries so that you can get the best out of it. This book is useful for all those who are working with huge datasets and since traditional relational databases are not able to satisfy their needs of high performance, availability and scalability, so they want to learn Cassandra. However, it's not required for them to be aware of traditional relational concepts. In fact, not knowing relational model at all might help in some cases because when you are designing your database, you won't be thinking about it from the traditional relational database perspective.