Summary
Migrating from RDBMS to Cassandra is a very common requirement in organizations. The preceding chapter and this chapter discussed two important steps: coexistence with RDBMS and migration from RDBMS to Cassandra. The main strategy employed here in the path to migration is by exploiting some of the new and unique features of Cassandra to provide value and to show the quick wins of the migration. The collection data types and the distributed counters help model the applications using Cassandra as the NoSQL data store. The TTL attribute of data in Cassandra column families helps the purging of data that has completed its end of lifespan without any other manual intervention.
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