April 2017
Beginner to intermediate
360 pages
9h 35m
English
In the What is Cassandra and why Cassandra? section of Chapter 1, Getting Up and Running with Cassandra, you learned that Cassandra is not a relational database despite some surface similarities. Specifically, this means that Cassandra does not have a built-in concept of the relationships between data in different tables. There are no foreign key constraints and there's no JOIN clause available in the SELECT statements; in fact, there is no way to read from multiple tables in the same query whereas relational databases are designed to explicitly account for the relationships between data in different tables, whether they're one-to-one, one-to-many, or many-to-many. Cassandra has no built-in ...
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