11. Designing for Column Family Databases
“A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.”
—NIKLAUS WIRTHCOMPUTER SCIENTIST
Topics Covered In This Chapter
Guidelines for Designing Tables
Tools for Working with Big Data
Case Study: Customer Data Analysis
Users drive the design of a column family database. This might seem illogical at first. After all, shouldn’t experienced designers with knowledge of the database management system take the lead on design? Actually, designers follow the lead of users. It is users who determine the questions that will be asked of the database application. They might have questions such as these:
• How many new orders were ...
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