Cassandra 3.x High Availability - Second Edition

Preface

Cassandra is a fantastic data store and certainly well suited as the foundation of a highly available system. In fact, it was built just for such a purpose: to handle Facebook’s messaging service. But it hasn’t always been so easy to use, with its early Thrift interface and unfamiliar data model causing many potential users to pause—and in many cases for a good reason.

Fortunately, Cassandra has matured substantially over the last few years. I used to advise people only to use Cassandra if nothing else would do the job because the learning curve was quite steep. Version 3.x continues this trend, with the introduction of features such as materialized views and SASI indexes. These additions reduce developer workload and significantly increase ...