Mastering Apache Cassandra - Second Edition

Cassandra in action

There is no better way to learn a technology than by performing a proof of concept of the technology. In this section, we will work on a very simple application to get you familiarized with Cassandra. We will build the backend of a simple blogging application, where a user can perform the following tasks:

• Create a blogging account
• Publish posts
• Tag the posts, and posts can be searched using those tags
• Have people comment on those posts
• Have people upvote or downvote a post or a comment

Modeling data

In the RDBMS world, you would glance over the entities and think about relations while modeling the application. Then, you will join tables to get the required data. There is no join option in Cassandra, so we will have to denormalize ...