Cassandra for Developers

Cassandra is an open source distributed, fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable, non-relational database management system featuring very fast writes and simple fast reads. It also has automatic data and node repair as well as SQL-like query language.

Our training deals with Cassandra core concepts, data modeling and using CQL for queries. Not to mention API-based and ORM-mediated data access from applications. We focus on the fundamentals of Cassandra 2.0+ architecture, conceptual, logical and physical data modeling. The course includes technical introductions to all areas needed to use Cassandra for building scalable Java applications.

• Understand core Cassandra concepts and architecture
• Design data models for Cassandra
• Write CQL queries using basic types and collections
• Access to Cassandra from Java programs
• Learn about ORM-like libraries/frameworks for Cassandra

• Core Cassandra concepts
• Cassandra local and cloud installation and configuring
• Cassandra architecture, replication, eventual consistency
• Write path, Hinted handoff
• Read path, Read repair, Node repair
• Compaction
• Cassandra Data Model
• Primary and partition keys
• CQL: Cassandra Query Language
• CQL data types, collections, nesting, expiring
• CQL queries
• Transactions
• Query-driven data modeling
• Data modeling best practices
• Table and key design
• Secondary Indexes
• Java driver architecture
• Basic Java API
• ORMs for Cassandra