Apache Cassandra

Introducing Cassandra   

• Distributed and Decentralized
• Elastic Scalability
• High Availability and Fault Tolerance
• Tuneable Consistency
• Brewer's CAP Theorem
• Row-Oriented
• Schema-Free
• High Performance

Use Cases for Cassandra   

• Large Deployments
• Lots of Writes, Statistics, and Analysis
• Geographical Distribution
• Evolving Applications

Installing Cassandra   

• Running Cassandra
• Starting the Server
• Running the Command-Line Client Interface
• Basic CLI Commands
• Hands-on Session

The Cassandra Data Model   

• The Relational Data Model
• A Simple Introduction
• Clusters
• Keyspaces
• Hands-on Session

Column Families   

• Column Family Options
• Columns
• Wide Rows, Skinny Rows
• Column Sorting
• Super Columns
• Composite Keys

The Cassandra Architecture   

• System Keyspace
• Peer-to-Peer
• Gossip and Failure Detection
• Anti-Entropy and Read Repair
• Memtables, SSTables, and Commit Logs
• Hinted Handoff
• Compaction
• Bloom Filters
• Tombstones
• Hands-on Session

Clients   

• Basic Client API
• Thrift
• Avro
• Hands-on Session

Reading and Writing Data   

• Setup and Inserting Data
• Using a Simple Get
• Seeding Some Values