Cassandra is a distributed database from Apache that is highly scalable and designed toman age very large amounts of structured data. It provides high availability with no single point of failure.
The tutorial starts off with a basic introduction of Cassandra followed by its architecture, installation, and important classes and interfaces. Thereafter, it proceeds to cover how toper form operations such as create, alter, update, and delete on keyspaces, tables, andindexes using CQLSH as well as Java API. The tutorial also has dedicated chapters toexplain the data types and collections available in CQL and how to make use of user defined data types.
