ScyllaDB in Action

6 Writing data to ScyllaDB

This chapter covers

• Inserting, updating, and deleting data
• Executing multiple concurrent queries via batch query
• Deleting data automatically via time to live
• Updating data conditionally with lightweight transactions

If you want to learn about writes to ScyllaDB, this chapter is the place: you’ll learn how Scylla handles mutating data—creating it, updating it, and deleting it. Writes may have seemed a straightforward operation when first introduced in chapter 2, but that’s the beauty of Scylla’s implementation: it provides a less-complicated interface and hides the complexity of the operation while still exposing some neat features to fit specialized use cases. Let’s first look at inserting and updating data. ...