Introduction to Cassandra

1h 7mBeginner2022-12-13

Authors

Kirsten Hunter

Developer Advocate at DataStax

Course details

As the NoSQL database used by most Fortune 100 companies, many people in the business world are excited about Cassandra. Casandra helps businesses move large amounts of data across the internet—quickly and consistently, from anywhere in the world. In this course, instructor Kirsten Hunter shows you how to get up and running with Cassandra so you can start modeling data at scale.

Get tips on setting up your tables, adding data, and working with data using commands in the Cassandra Query Language. Test out your new skills along the way in the practice challenges at the end of each section. Upon completing this course, you’ll be ready to start using Cassandra to solve big data problems, with zero downtime, reducing costs as you go.

Skills covered

CassandraApacheIntroduction toDatabase DevelopmentDatabase ManagementSoftware Development

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Setting up your Free Cassandra instance

1. What Is Cassandra

03 - What is Cassandra
04 - Partitions
05 - Using partitions
06 - Data modeling
07 - CQL in Cassandra

2. Setting Up Your Tables

08 - Understanding keyspaces
09 - Cassandra data types
10 - Organizing data for tables
11 - Challenge - Make a table
12 - Solution - Make a table

3. Adding Data

13 - Adding data
14 - Batching create commands
15 - Retrieving data
16 - Challenge - Insert new data
17 - Solution - Insert new data

4. Working with Data

18 - Modifying data
19 - Update existing rows
20 - Delete existing rows
21 - Challenge - Do it all
22 - Solution - Do it all

Conclusion

23 - Next steps