From 0 to 1: The Cassandra Distributed Database

A complete guide to getting started with cluster management and queries on Cassandra

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Taught by a team which includes 2 Stanford-educated, ex-Googlers and 2 ex-Flipkart Lead Analysts. This team has decades of practical experience in working with large-scale data processing.

Has your data gotten huge, unwieldy and hard to manage with a traditional database? Is your data unstructured with an expanding list of attributes? Do you want to ensure your data is always available even with server crashes? Look beyond Hadoop - the Cassandra distributed database is the solution to your problems.

Let's parse that.

  • Huge, unwieldy data: This course helps your set up a cluster with multiple nodes to distribute data across machines
  • Unstructured: Cassandra is a columnar store. There are no empty cells or space wasted when you store data with variable and expanding attributes
  • Always available: Cassandra uses partitioning and replication to ensure that your data is available even when nodes in a cluster go down


What's included in this course:

  • The Cassandra Cluster Manager (CCM) to set up and manage your cluster
  • The Cassandra Query Language (CQL) to create keyspaces, column families, perform CRUD operations on column families and other administrative tasks
  • Designing primary keys and secondary indexes, partitioning and clustering keys
  • Restrictions on queries based on primary and secondary key design
  • Tunable consistency using quorum and local quorum. Read and write consistency in a node
  • Architecture and Storage components: Commit Log, MemTable, SSTables, Bloom Filters, Index File, Summary File and Data File
  • A real world project: A Miniature Catalog Management System using the Cassandra Java driver

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Loonycorn is comprised of a couple of individuals —Janani Ravi and Vitthal Srinivasan—who have honed their tech expertises at Google and Stanford. The team believes it has distilled the instruction of complicated tech concepts into funny, practical, engaging courses, and is excited to be sharing its content with eager students.

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