Getting Started with Apache Cassandra
From the post:
If you haven’t begun using Apache Cassandra yet and you wanted a little handholding to help get you started, you’re in luck. This article will help you get your feet wet with Cassandra and show you the basics so you’ll be ready to start developing Cassandra applications in no time.
Why Cassandra?
Do you need a more flexible data model than what’s offered in the relational database world? Would you like to start with a database you know can scale to meet any number of concurrent user connections and/or data volume size and run blazingly fast? Have you been needing a database that has no single point of failure and one that can easily distribute data among multiple geographies, data centers, and the cloud? Well, that’s Cassandra.
Not to pick on Cassandra or this post in particular but have you noticed that introductory articles have you enter a trivial amount of data as a starting point? Which makes sense, you need to learn the basics but why not conclude with importing a real data set? Particularly for databases what “scale” so well.
For example, detail how to import campaign donations records from the Federal Election Commission in the United States. Which are written in COBOL format. That would give the user a better data set for CQL exercises.
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