This document provides an introduction to Cassandra and discusses: - The types of NoSQL databases including Cassandra - How to install and configure Cassandra on a local machine - Potential use cases for Cassandra - Some limitations of relational databases that Cassandra addresses like partitioning tolerance and ability to handle large volumes of simultaneous writes.

1. INTRODUCTION TO
CASSANDRA
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2. Contents
- What is the need of Cassandra (NoSQL)
- Types of NoSQL
- Installing and configuring Cassandra on your machine
- Use Cases
- Motivation
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- Introduction to Cassandra
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RDBMS IS SO COOL !!
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4. RDBMS
The Awesome and the Not-So-Much
Allows the user to represent complex relationships with the data to
insert, select, update, delete, truncate, and merge data.
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We can perform a rich variety of operations using functions based on
relational algebra to find the desired output.
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SQL provides a means of directly creating, altering, and dropping
schema structures at runtime.
RDBMS is easy to use and offer a low barrier to entry.
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SQL allows you to easily integrate your RDBMS with a wide variety of
systems.
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5. → Partitioning tolerance is not
supported by RDBMS.
→ Simultaneous write operations in
bulk are not possible.
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→ Because of some of the inherent
design decisions in RDBMS, it is
not always as easy to scale.
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29. 1. Go to cassandra.apache.org/download/
2. Download Latest version of Cassandra
3. Create the directories (details in readme.txt)
4. Give the path to your JDK
5. Run command 'bin/cassandra -f' to start the
server
6. Open a new tab in terminal and start CQL shell
with bin/cqlsh
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Installing and Configuring
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YOU'RE READY TO DO
THE MAGIC !!
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