Learning Apache Cassandra - Second Edition

Creating a status update

Now let's say carol and dave each creates a new status update. As earlier, we will not attempt to backfill home_status_updates with status updates that were written prior to its creation; we'll just propagate new status updates to the home_status_updates table:

SELECT "followed_username" FROM "user_inbound_follows" WHERE "followed_username" = 'carol';  INSERT INTO "user_status_updates"   ("username", "id", "body") VALUES   ('carol',    cacc7de0-2af9-11e4-8069-5f98e903bf02,    'carol update 4' );  INSERT INTO "home_status_updates"   ("timeline_username", "status_update_id",    "status_update_username", "body") VALUES (   'alice',   cacc7de0-2af9-11e4-8069-5f98e903bf02,   'carol',   'carol update 4' );  SELECT "followed_username" ...