Cassandra for Beginners

About Cassandra for Beginners

Cassandra is a distributed database from Apache that is highly scalable and designed to manage very large amounts of structured data. It provides high availability with no single point of failure. Apache Cassandra is a NoSQL database capable of handling large amounts of data that change rapidly. In this course, learn about the architecture of this popular database, and discover how to design Cassandra data models that support scalable applications. The course highlights the differences between Cassandra and relational databases, discusses the Cassandra Query Language (CQL). The course starts off with the installation of Oracle's virtualbox and ubuntu-linux followed by the installing of Cassandra on the Ubuntu-linux virtual machine. The course then covers a basic introduction of Cassandra followed by its architecture, installation, and how to perform operations such as create, alter, update, and delete on keyspaces, tables, and indexes using CQLSH Topics include:

Installation of Oracle's virtualBox

Installation of Ubuntu-Linux

Installation of Java JDK

Installation of Cassandra

Introduction to Cassandra Query Language -CQL

creating a keyspace

Altering a keyspace

Dropping a keyspace

Creating a table

Inserting data into a table

Reading data from a table

Updating data in a table

Deleting a table

Using Batch for multiple modification operations

Altering a table

Creating Index

Truncating a table

Dropping a table

Creating a table with Set collection

Creating a table with List collection

Creating a table with Map collection