Fundamentals of Cassandra DB

Software development experience

This course introduces the basics of Cassandra including its installation & configuration, internal architecture, tools, Cassandra Query Language, and administration.

Audience

Administrators and developers seeking to use Cassandra. This course serves as a foundation and prerequisite for other advanced Cassandra courses.

• Introduction to Cassandra
• Big Data
• Common use cases of Cassandra
• Cassandra architecture
• Installation and Configuration
• Running and Stopping Cassandra instance
• Cassandra Data Model
• Cassandra Query Language
• Configuring the Cassandra nodes and clusters using CCM
• cqlsh shell commands
• nodetool
• Using cassandra-stress to populate and test the Cassandra nodes
• Coordinating the Cassandra requests
• Replication
• Consistency Tuning
• Cassandra Nodes Communication
• Writing and Reading data to/from the storage engine
• Data directories
• Anti-entropy operations
• Cassandra Compaction
• Choosing and Implementing compaction strategies
• Best practices in hardware planning
• Troubleshooting resources