From 0 to 1: The Cassandra Distributed Database

A complete guide to getting started with cluster management and queries on Cassandra

Created by: Loony Corn
An ex-Google, Stanford and Flipkart team

What Will I Learn?

• Set up a cluster, keyspaces, column families and manage them
• Run queries using the CQL command shell
• Design primary keys and secondary indexes with partitioning and clustering considerations
• Use the Cassandra Java driver to connect and run queries on the cluster

Requirements

• The basics of SQL and traditional relational databases
• The basics of Java in order to use the Cassandra Java library

Target audience

• Yup! Engineers and analysts who understand traditional, relational databases and want to move to big data storage systems
• Nope! Students who are just starting out understanding databases and have no prior experience with one