Using the 150+ recipes in this essential Cookbook, you can fully explore Apache Cassandra's possibilities. This is the definitive manual for everything—from customizing and tuning to utilizing third-party programs.
- Get the best out of Cassandra using this efficient recipe bank
- Configure and tune Cassandra components to enhance performance
- Deploy Cassandra in various environments and monitor its performance
- Well-illustrated, step-by-step recipes to make all tasks look easy!
Each task is addressed as a recipe because this is a cookbook. A recipe describes a task and lists the steps that must be followed to finish it.
Coding samples can be found in some of the book's recipes. A Cassandra recipe that saves and accesses phone book entries is an illustration of this. The recipe consists of a description of the program, a complete code example, running the example, displaying the results, and then a more in-depth explanation of the process or code in the how it works portion.
