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Cassandra 3 for Developers

This course is designed to familiarize you with Cassandra's resilient, distributed architecture while equipping you with a thorough understanding of the Cassandra Query Language (CQL).

Intermediate
3h 14m
(332)

Created by Paul O'Fallon

Last Updated Jan 13, 2023

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Cassandra 3 for Developers

This course is designed to familiarize you with Cassandra's resilient, distributed architecture while equipping you with a thorough understanding of the Cassandra Query Language (CQL).

Intermediate
3h 14m
(332)

Created by Paul O'Fallon

Last Updated Jan 13, 2023

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Cassandra is a highly scalable, high-performance distributed database. In this course, Cassandra 3for Developers, you will learn about the brief history of Cassandra and how to use Docker to stand-up a Cassandra cluster. First, you will discover replication strategies and Cassandra's support for "tunable consistency." Then, you will be introduced to CQL along with tables, keyspaces, and common datatypes. Next, you will explore primary keys and how they can be made up of both partition keys as well as clustering keys. Finally, you will look at secondary indexes, batches, and lightweight transactions. When you are finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of storing time series data in Cassandra, such as sets, lists, maps, tuples, and user defined types.

Cassandra 3 for Developers
Intermediate
3h 14m
(332)
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Paul O'Fallon - Pluralsight course - Cassandra 3 for Developers
Paul O'Fallon
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An Enterprise Architect by day and an open-source contributor by night, Paul has more than 19 years in the Information Technology industry spanning academic, start-up and enterprise environments.

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