Ebook: Beginning Apache Cassandra development

Apache Cassandra is a document database following the JSON document model and is specifically designed to manage large amounts of data across many commodity servers without there being any single point of failure. This design approach makes Apache Cassandra a robust and easy-to-implement platform when high availability is needed. You'll learn how to: configure Apache Cassandra clusters; model your data for high throughput; implement MapReduce algorithms; run Hive and Pig queries over Cassandra; query with the Cassandra Query Language; build graph-based solutions with Cassandra Titan; back up your data and restore when needed; and encrypt and secure your data. --