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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
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4 Data types in ScyllaDB

This chapter covers

  • The basic types ScyllaDB uses to store strings, numbers, dates, IDs, and more
  • The collection types Scylla uses to aggregate data
  • When to use each of these types to fit your design’s needs

In the last chapter, you learned about query-first design, using it to expand your restaurant review database into the beginnings of a database schema for a full-blown restaurant review application. Starting with the requirements, you determined the queries your app needed to run, the tables those queries run against, and the primary keys for those tables. The chapter ended on a cliffhanger: what data goes into those tables, and what are the data types associated with that data? Here, you’ll learn the answer ...

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