Introduction

Big or large data has been the talk of the town in recent years. With possibilities for solving unstructured and semi-structured data issues, more and more organizations are gradually moving toward big data powered solutions. This essentially gives organization a way to think "beyond RDBMS." This book will walk you through many such use cases during the journey.

Many NoSQL databases have been developed over the last 4-5 years. Recent research shows there are now more than 150 different NoSQL databases. This raises questions about why to adopt a specific database. For example, is it scalable, under active development, and most importantly accepted by the community and organizations? It is in light of these questions that Apache Cassandra ...

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