What you need for this book

Readers are advised to go through Cassandra data modeling before starting the journey of understanding Cassandra Design Patterns, Second Edition. An excellent book to start with data modeling is Cassandra Data Modeling and Analysis, C.Y. Kan, Packt Publishing. An understanding of RDBMS data modeling is a definite plus point.

This book has some version-specific content. The code examples refer to Cassandra Query Language (CQL). Cassandra 2.1.5 or above is the preferred version for references as well as for running the CQL code samples given in this book.