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Learning Apache Cassandra

You're reading from   Learning Apache Cassandra Managing fault-tolerant, scalable data with high performance

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787127296
Length 360 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Sandeep Yarabarla Sandeep Yarabarla
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Table of Contents (15) 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 11. Cassandra Multi-Node Cluster 12. Application Development Using the Java Driver 13. Peeking under the Hood 14. Authentication and Authorization

Unfollowing users

It's conceivable that bob may end up posting too many funny cat pictures for alice's taste, in which case, she may decide to unfollow him. For alice to do that, we'll need to remove the rows representing the follow relationship from both the inbound and outbound follow tables:

DELETE FROM "user_outbound_follows" 
WHERE "follower_username" = 'alice'
AND "followed_username" = 'bob';

DELETE FROM "user_inbound_follows"
WHERE "followed_username" = 'bob'
AND "follower_username" = 'alice';

This is our first encounter with CQL's DELETE statement, although it should look quite familiar to anyone who's worked with SQL. To delete a row, we specify the full primary key of the row, that is, both the partition key(s) and the clustering column(s). The WHERE...AND syntax is the same...

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