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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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7 Reading data from ScyllaDB

This chapter covers

  • Limiting, grouping, sorting, and paginating queries
  • Understanding read performance
  • Using ScyllaDB to denormalize your data via materialized views and indexes

When you store data in a database, you’re saving it there to read later. In the previous chapter, you learned about saving data to—and deleting it from—ScyllaDB. Accordingly, in this chapter, it’s time to learn about reads. You’ve done some basic SELECT queries already, but here, you’ll learn more about the various clauses you can add to those queries to get exactly the data you’re looking for. You’ll also look into read performance so that you can understand your queries' behavior and avoid burdening your cluster with a deluge of ...

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