Cassandra: The Definitive Guide
By Eben Hewitt
Cassandra becomes more and more popular among BigData engineers due to lack of complexity compared to Hadoop, possibility to store a huge amount of data and perfect scalability (75.000 nodes! at Apple on Fall 2014). Before continue reading review, please pay attention on book's release date: it is November 2010. In fact, it's out-of-date book, current version of Casandra is 2.1 and it contains a lot of new features compared to book.
Generaly, the books gives a very detailed and good description of available technics on data modeling in Cassandra and would come in handy for newcomers in a column-oriented world.
This book wouble be interesting not only for software engenners, but also for devops and administrators as well. It contains a greate chapters about Cassnadra instalation, configuration, maintanacne, monitoring and tuning for specific requirements.
I do like comparing Cassandra and traditional RDBMS that present in this book: it gives much better understanding of Cassandra's use cases. Anoying part of book is sometimes to much code for Hotel application, which, of course, no one would read from the begining till the end.
As current book was printed 4 years ago, I just can't recommend it for reading now, but second edition must be consider if you are interested in using Cassandra
By Eben Hewitt
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Final Release Date: November 2010
Pages: 332
Cassandra becomes more and more popular among BigData engineers due to lack of complexity compared to Hadoop, possibility to store a huge amount of data and perfect scalability (75.000 nodes! at Apple on Fall 2014). Before continue reading review, please pay attention on book's release date: it is November 2010. In fact, it's out-of-date book, current version of Casandra is 2.1 and it contains a lot of new features compared to book.
Generaly, the books gives a very detailed and good description of available technics on data modeling in Cassandra and would come in handy for newcomers in a column-oriented world.
This book wouble be interesting not only for software engenners, but also for devops and administrators as well. It contains a greate chapters about Cassnadra instalation, configuration, maintanacne, monitoring and tuning for specific requirements.
I do like comparing Cassandra and traditional RDBMS that present in this book: it gives much better understanding of Cassandra's use cases. Anoying part of book is sometimes to much code for Hotel application, which, of course, no one would read from the begining till the end.
As current book was printed 4 years ago, I just can't recommend it for reading now, but second edition must be consider if you are interested in using Cassandra
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