Mastering Apache Cassandra - Second Edition

Summary

We have started learning about Cassandra. You can set up your local machine, play with CQL3 in cqlsh, and write a simple program that uses Cassandra on the backend. It seems like we are all done. But, it's not so. Cassandra is not all about ease in modeling or simple to code around with (unlike RDBMS). It is all about speed, availability, and reliability. The only thing that matters in a production setup is how quickly and reliably your application can serve a fickle-minded user. It does not matter if you have an elegant database architecture with the third normal form or if you use a functional programming language and follow the Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) principle religiously. Cassandra and many other modern databases, especially in ...