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Learning Apache Cassandra

Build an efficient, scalable, fault-tolerant, and highly-available data layer into your application using Cassandra

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|Sep 2025
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Key Features

    Book Description

    What you will learn

    • Install Cassandra and create your first keyspace
    • Choose the right table structure for the task at hand in a variety of scenarios
    • Use range slice queries for efficient data access
    • Effortlessly handle concurrent updates with collection columns
    • Ensure data integrity with lightweight transactions and logged batches
    • Understand eventual consistency and use the right consistency level for your situation
    • Implement best practices for data modeling and access

    Who this book is for

    Table of Contents

    1. Getting up and Running
    2. The first table
    3. Organizing related data
    4. Beyond key-value lookup
    5. Establishing relationships
    6. Denormalizing data for maximum performance
    7. Working with collections
    8. Expanding your data models
    9. Aggregating time-series data
    10. How Cassandra distributes data
    11. Appendix: Peeking under the hood
    12. Appendix 2:Authentication and Authorization
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78398-921-8
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 246