Apache Cassandra Essentials (English Edition): Create your own massively scalable Cassandra database with highly responsive database queries - Softcover

Nitin Padalia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783989106 ISBN 13: 9781783989102

Verlag: Packt Publishing, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

Create your own massively scalable Cassandra database with highly responsive database queries

About This Book

• Create a Cassandra cluster and tweak its configuration to get the best performance based on your environment
• Analyze the key concepts and architecture of Cassandra, which are essential to create highly responsive Cassandra databases
• A fast-paced and step-by-step guide on handling huge amount of data and getting the best out of your database applications

Who This Book Is For

If you are a developer who is working with Cassandra and you want to deep dive into the core concepts and understand Cassandra's non-relational nature, then this book is for you. A basic understanding of Cassandra is expected.

What You Will Learn

• Install and set up your Cassandra Cluster using various installation types
• Use Cassandra Query Language (CQL) to design Cassandra database and tables with various configuration options
• Design your Cassandra database to be evenly loaded with the lowest read/write latencies
• Employ the available Cassandra tools to monitor and maintain a Cassandra cluster
• Debug CQL queries to discover why they are performing relatively slowly
• Choose the best-suited compaction strategy for your database based on your usage pattern
• Tune Cassandra based on your deployment operation system environment

In Detail

Apache Cassandra Essentials takes you step-by-step from from the basics of installation to advanced installation options and database design techniques. It gives you all the information you need to effectively design a well distributed and high performance database. You'll get to know about the steps that are performed by a Cassandra node when you execute a read/write query, which is essential to properly maintain of a Cassandra cluster and to debug any issues. Next, you'll discover how to integrate a Cassandra driver in your applications and perform read/write operations. Finally, you'll learn about the various tools provided by Cassandra for serviceability aspects such as logging, metrics, backup, and recovery.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Nitin Padalia is the technical leader at Aricent Group, where he is involved in building highly scalable distributed applications in the field of telecommunications. From the beginning of his career, he has been working in the field of telecommunications and has worked on protocols such as SMPP, RTP, SIP, and VOIP. Since the beginning of his career, he has worked on the development of applications that can scale infinitely with highest performance possible. He has experience of developing applications for bare metal hardware, virtualized environments, and cloud-based applications using various languages and technologies.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1783989106
• ISBN 13: 9781783989102
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 137
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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