Cassandra Training

This module gives you a brief description on introduction of Cassandra and also explains the differences between NoSQL and RDBMS databases, what are the various NoSQL databases, various Cassandra features, explains why Cassandra scores over other NoSQL databases, Distinguish between use cases when Cassandra is a strong choice and when it is not, Understand the use cases where Cassandra is implemented.

Quick Review of RDBMS: Transactions ACIDity, Schema, Two Phase Commit Sharing and Share Nothing Architecture Feature Based Key Based Lookup Table Based NoSQL Databases Brewers CAP Theorem Cassandra Definition and Features Distributed and Decentralised Cassandra Elastic Scalability High Availability and Fault Tolerance in Cassandra Tuneable Consistency Strict Consistency Casual Consistency Weak (Eventual Consistency) Cassandra Column Orientation Schema Free High Performance USE Cases for Cassandra Cassandra Installation.

Run basic Cassandra commands, Understand Design differences between RDBMS and Cassandra data model. Explain how Cassandra locate data in the data cluster, Explain expiring column and Time to Live (TTL), etc..

Installing Cassandra Running the Command-Line Client Interface Basic CLI Commands Help, Connecting to a Server Describing the Cassandra Environment Creating and Key space and Column Family in Cassandra Writing and Reading Data, The Relational Data Model Simple Introduction Cluster Key spaces Column Families Column Family Options Columns and Wide Rows and Skinny Rows and Column Sorting and Super Columns Composite Keys Design Differences between RDBMS and CASSANDRA Query Language, Referential Integrity Secondary Indexes Sorting De-Normalization Design Patterns Materialized Views.

Overview of Cassandra Architecture follows up in Intermode communication, Explains how Cassandra accomplishes some of its basic notable aspects, such as durability and high availability. Describes more complex inner workings, such as the gossip protocol, hinted handoffs, read repairs, Merkle trees etc, Understand Staged Event-Driven Architecture (SEDA).

System Key space Peer-To-Peer Gossip and Failure Detection Anti-Entropy and Read Repair Memtables, SSTables, and Commit Logs Hinted Handoff Compaction Bloom Filters Tombstones Staged Event-Driven Architecture (SEDA) Read Mutation Gossip Response Anti-Entropy Load Balance Migration Streaming Managers and Services Cassandra Daemon Storage Service Messaging Service Hinted Handoff Manager.