Preface

Traditional database management systems sometimes become the bottleneck of being highly available, scalable, and ultra responsive for modern day applications, as they are not able to satisfy the storage and retrieval needs of modern applications with all these attributes. Apache Cassandra being a highly available, massively scalable, NoSQL, query-driven database helps our applications to achieve these modern day must have attributes. Apache Cassandra's core features include handling of large data with the flexibility of configuring responsiveness, scalability, and high availability at the same time to suit our requirements.

In this book, I've provided step-by-step information starting from the basic installation to the advanced installation options and database design techniques. It gives all the information that you will need to design a well-distributed and high performance database. This book focuses on explaining core concepts with simple and easy-to-understand examples. I've also incorporated some code examples with this book. You can use these examples while working on your day-to-day tasks with Cassandra.