Cassandra: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition

With this hands-on guide, you’ll learn how Apache Cassandra handles hundreds of terabytes of data while remaining highly available across multiple data centers—capabilities that have attracted Facebook, Twitter, and other data-intensive companies. Updated for Cassandra 3.0, this second edition provides the technical details and practical examples you need to assess this database management system and put it to work in a production environment.

Authors Jeff Carpenter and Eben Hewitt demonstrate the advantages of Cassandra’s nonrelational design, and pay special attention to data modeling. If you’re a developer, DBA, application architect, or manager looking to solve a database scaling issue or future-proof your application, this guide shows you how to harness Cassandra’s speed and flexibility.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Beyond Relational Databases
Chapter 2. Introducing Cassandra
Chapter 3. Installing Cassandra
Chapter 4. The Cassandra Query Language
Chapter 5. Data Modeling
Chapter 6. The Cassandra Architecture
Chapter 7. Configuring Cassandra
Chapter 8. Clients
Chapter 9. Reading and Writing Data
Chapter 10. Monitoring
Chapter 11. Maintenance
Chapter 12. Performance Tuning
Chapter 13. Security
Chapter 14. Deploying and Integrating