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ScyllaDB in Action
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ScyllaDB in Action

by Bo Ingram
October 2024
Beginner to intermediate
392 pages
11h 5m
English
Manning Publications
Audiobook available
Content preview from ScyllaDB in Action

2 Touring ScyllaDB

This chapter covers

  • Running ScyllaDB locally with Docker
  • Using nodetool to view operational details of the cluster at the command line
  • Creating a table and reading and writing data
  • Experimenting with failures and changing consistency levels

Users use a database to store data. Whether it’s blog posts, text messages, or image metadata, the use case for every database begins with “I want to store data for later consumption.” Spending pages and pages discussing consistency, fault tolerance, and comparative benefits, although it’s useful information, gets away from this goal. I’ve written a lot about ScyllaDB in theory, but here, it’s time to delve into practice. In this chapter, you’ll launch your first ScyllaDB cluster, ...

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