Cassandra for Beginners

Practical Hands -on Introduction to Cassandra

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