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Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x - Third Edition
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Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x - Third Edition

by Aaron Ploetz, Tejaswi Malepati
October 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
348 pages
10h
English
Packt Publishing
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An overview of Cassandra data modeling

Understanding how Apache Cassandra organizes data under the hood is essential to knowing how to use it properly. When examining Cassandra's data organization, it is important to determine which version of Apache Cassandra you are working with. Apache Cassandra 3.0 represents a significant shift in the way data is both stored and accessed, which warrants a discussion on the evolution of CQL.

Before we get started, let's create a keyspace for this chapter's work:

CREATE KEYSPACE packt_ch3 WITH replication = {'class': 'NetworkTopologyStrategy', 'ClockworkAngels':'1'};

To preface this discussion, let's create an example table. Let's assume that we want to store data about a music playlist, including the ...

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