Book description
Imagine what you could do if scalability wasn't a problem. With this hands-on guide, you’ll learn how the Cassandra database management system handles hundreds of terabytes of data while remaining highly available across multiple data centers. This expanded second edition—updated for Cassandra 3.0—provides the technical details and practical examples you need to put this database to work in a production environment.
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Table of contents
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1. Beyond Relational Databases
- 2. Introducing Cassandra
- 3. Installing Cassandra
- 4. The Cassandra Query Language
- 5. Data Modeling
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6. The Cassandra Architecture
- Data Centers and Racks
- Gossip and Failure Detection
- Snitches
- Rings and Tokens
- Virtual Nodes
- Partitioners
- Replication Strategies
- Consistency Levels
- Queries and Coordinator Nodes
- Memtables, SSTables, and Commit Logs
- Caching
- Hinted Handoff
- Lightweight Transactions and Paxos
- Tombstones
- Bloom Filters
- Compaction
- Anti-Entropy, Repair, and Merkle Trees
- Staged Event-Driven Architecture (SEDA)
- Managers and Services
- System Keyspaces
- Summary
- 7. Configuring Cassandra
- 8. Clients
- 9. Reading and Writing Data
- 10. Monitoring
- 11. Maintenance
- 12. Performance Tuning
- 13. Security
- 14. Deploying and Integrating
- Index
Product information
- Title: Cassandra: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2016
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781491933664
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