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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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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

Storing follow relationships


We've now created two tables, each of which allows us to answer an important question about follow relationships: first, whom does a user follow; and second, who follows a user. Now let's establish some follow relationships.

For now, let's have alice follow a couple of other users, bob and carol:

INSERT INTO "user_outbound_follows"
  ("follower_username", "followed_username")
VALUES ('alice', 'bob');
INSERT INTO "user_inbound_follows"
  ("followed_username", "follower_username")
VALUES ('bob', 'alice');
INSERT INTO "user_outbound_follows"
  ("follower_username", "followed_username")
VALUES ('alice', 'carol');
INSERT INTO "user_inbound_follows"
  ("followed_username", "follower_username")
VALUES ('carol', 'alice');

For each follow relationship, we have to insert two rows: one in the user_outbound_follows table to store the relationship from the perspective of the follower, and one in the user_inbound_follows table to store the relationship from the perspective of...

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