Description

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

Who this course is for:

   Beginner Database Administrators
   Beginner Data Analyst
   Anyone who want wants to learn something new

Requirements

   Basic knowledge of SQL would help but not mandatory
   Knowledge of relational database management systems will help but not mandatory

Last updated 4/2018