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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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The path to failure

As most developers are used to working with relational databases, the typical path to failure starts with a data model that closely resembles one found in a RDBMS. A loading job is then written, which only succeeds in crashing their nodes every couple of hours.

Finally, once the data is there, they build their application around a RDBMS framework driver (because their team has experience with a specific framework) that was augmented to (rather than designed to) work with Cassandra.

In the end, the app team blames the DBAs for an application with high latency, a trainwreck of a data loader, and request timeouts about as common as firecrackers in the U.S. in early July.

All of these issues are preventable. What's more, responsibility ...

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