Chapter 1, Quick Start, walks the reader through getting started with Apache Cassandra. As the title suggests, explanations will be brief in favor of guiding the reader toward quickly standing up an Apache Cassandra single-node cluster.
Chapter 2, Cassandra Architecture, covers the ideas and theories behind how Apache Cassandra works. These concepts will be useful going forward, as an understanding of Cassandra's inner workings can help in building high-performing data models.
Chapter 3, Effective CQL, introduces the reader to the CQL. It describes building appropriate data models and how to leverage CQL to get the most out of your cluster.
Chapter 4, Configuring a Cluster, details the configuration files and settings ...
