Cassandra Succinctly

Morrisville, Syncfusion Inc, 2015, — 121 p. Apache Cassandra is a very scalable, NoSQL open-source database designed as a peer-to- peer distributed system where all nodes are the same and the data is distributed among the nodes in the cluster. Since there is no single point of failure, having nodes out of order in a cluster is not a big deal for Cassandra. It’s a common thing that nodes are added and taken out of the cluster during regular working hours, without having to wait for the system load to drop somewhere during the night. Also, one of the key features of Cassandra is that it works on commodity hardware and is easily deployed on a cloud-based infrastructure. Contents: Introduction The Name Cassandra History of Apache Cassandra Basic Theory behind Cassandra Architecture Overview Cassandra Internals Summary Getting Started with Cassandra Installing Cassandra on Linux with a Tarball Installing Cassandra on Windows Installing and Using DataStax DevCenter Summary Table of Contents 4 The Story behind the Succinctly Series of Books 6 About the Author 8 Chapter 1 Introduction 9 The Name Cassandra 9 History of Apache Cassandra 9 Basic Theory behind Cassandra 10 Vertical Scaling 10 Relational Databases 11 CAP Theorem 12 Consistent Hashing 13 Architecture Overview 16 Replication Factor 16 Keyspace and Column Family 16 Replication Strategy 17 Gossip Protocol and the Snitch 17 Coordinator Node 18 Consistency 20 Cassandra Internals 22 Write Path 22 Data Update, Removal, and Compaction 23 Read Path 24 Summary 26 Chapter 2 Getting Started with Cassandra 28 Installing Cassandra on Linux with a Tarball 28 Installing Java 28 Installing Cassandra on Windows 30 Installing Java 30 Installing DataStax Community Edition of Cassandra 33 Installing and Using DataStax DevCenter 37 Summary 41 Chapter 3 Data Modeling with Cassandra and CQL 43 Comparing Relational and Cassandra Data Storage 43 CQL 46 CQL Shell 46 Keyspace 47 Table 48 CQL Data Types 51 Table Properties 54 Cluster Ordering the Data 58 Manipulating the Data 60 Data Manipulation Corner Cases 64 Querying 66 Indexes 73 Collections 75 Time Series Data in Cassandra 81 Basic Time Series 81 Reverse Order Time Series 84 Handling Large-Scale Time Series 88 Millisecond is a Long Time 92 Summary 95 Chapter 4 Using Cassandra with Applications 96 Cassandra with Node.js 97 Initial Setup 97 index.js 100 config.js 101 cassandra.js 102 routes.js 102 main.html 108 home.html 109 add_user.html 110 add_offer.html 111 search.html 113 Used Car Market in Action 114 Cassandra with Java 117 Cassandra with C# 119 Summary 120 Conclusion 121 data modeling,Apache Cassandra,big data,Syncfusion,Succinctly series Introduction to the Apach Cassandra distributed database management system.