Key Facts & Insights from "Cassandra: The Definitive Guide - Distributed Data at Web Scale"
- Cassandra is a distributed database from Apache that is highly scalable and designed to manage large amounts of structured data across many commodity servers.
- The book provides an in-depth understanding of Cassandra’s distributed architecture, its data model, and how to model data to optimize your database.
- It emphasizes the importance of managing and monitoring a Cassandra cluster, and provides insights into the tools and techniques for it.
- The book explores the use of CQL (Cassandra Query Language), the primary language for interacting with Cassandra,...