Getting Started With Apache Cassandra

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction To Cassandra

Lecture 1: Important – Download These First – Working Files

Lecture 2: 0101 Introducing The Course

Lecture 3: 0102 Understanding What Cassandra Is

Lecture 4: 0103 Learning What Cassandra Is Being Used For

Lecture 5: 0104 Understanding The System Requirements

Lecture 6: 0105 How To Access Your Working Files

Lecture 7: 0106 Opening The Main Virtual Machine

Lecture 8: 0107 Pop Quiz

Chapter 2: Getting Started With The Architecture

Lecture 1: 0201 Understanding That Cassandra Is A Distributed Database

Lecture 2: 0202 Learning What Snitch Is For

Lecture 3: 0203 Learning What Gossip Is For

Lecture 4: 0204 Learning How Data Gets DIstributed

Lecture 5: 0205 Learning About Replication

Lecture 6: 0206 Learning About Virtual Nodes

Lecture 7: 0207 Pop Quiz

Chapter 3: Installing Cassandra

Lecture 1: 0301 Downloading Cassandra

Lecture 2: 0302 Ensuring Oracle Java 7 Is Installed

Lecture 3: 0303 Installing Cassandra

Lecture 4: 0304 Viewing The Main Configuration File

Lecture 5: 0305 Providing Cassandra With Permission To Directories

Lecture 6: 0306 Starting Cassandra

Lecture 7: 0307 Checking Status

Lecture 8: 0308 Accessing The Cassandra system.log File

Lecture 9: 0309 Pop Quiz

Chapter 4: Communicating With Cassandra

Lecture 1: 0401 Understanding Ways To Communicate With Cassandra

Lecture 2: 0402 Using Cqlsh

Lecture 3: 0403 Pop Quiz

Chapter 5: Creating A Database

Lecture 1: 0501 Understanding A Cassandra Database

Lecture 2: 0502 Defining A Keyspace

Lecture 3: 0503 Deleting A Keyspace

Lecture 4: 0504 Pop Quiz

Lecture 5: 0505 Lab: Create A Second Database

Chapter 6: Creating A Table

Lecture 1: 0601 Creating A Table

Lecture 2: 0602 Defining Columns And Data Types

Lecture 3: 0603 Defining A Primary Key

Lecture 4: 0604 Recognizing A Partition Key

Lecture 5: 0605 Specifying A Descending Clustering Order

Lecture 6: 0606 Pop Quiz

Lecture 7: 0607 Lab: Create A Second Table

Chapter 7: Inserting Data

Lecture 1: 0701 Understanding Ways To Write Data

Lecture 2: 0702 Using The INSERT INTO Command

Lecture 3: 0703 Using The COPY Command

Lecture 4: 0704 How Data Is Stored In Cassandra

Lecture 5: 0705 How Data Is Stored On Disk

Lecture 6: 0706 Pop Quiz

Lecture 7: 0707 Lab: Insert Data

Chapter 8: Modeling Data

Lecture 1: 0801 Understanding Data Modeling In Cassandra

Lecture 2: 0802 Using A WHERE Clause

Lecture 3: 0803 Understanding Secondary Indexes

Lecture 4: 0804 Creating A Secondary Index

Lecture 5: 0805 Defining A Composite Partition Key

Lecture 6: 0806 Pop Quiz

Chapter 9: Creating An Application

Lecture 1: 0901 Understanding Cassandra Drivers

Lecture 2: 0902 Exploring The DataStax Java Driver

Lecture 3: 0903 Setting Up A Development Environment

Lecture 4: 0904 Creating An Application Page

Lecture 5: 0905 Acquiring The DataStax Java Driver Files

Lecture 6: 0906 Getting The DataStax Java Driver Files Through Maven

Lecture 7: 0907 Providing The DataStax Java Driver Files Manually

Lecture 8: 0908 Connecting To A Cassandra Cluster

Lecture 9: 0909 Executing A Query

Lecture 10: 0910 Displaying Query Results – Part 1

Lecture 11: 0911 Displaying Query Results – Part 2

Lecture 12: 0912 Using An MVC Pattern

Lecture 13: 0913 Pop Quiz

Lecture 14: 0914 Lab: Create A Second Application – Part 1

Lecture 15: 0915 Lab: Create A Second Application – Part 2

Lecture 16: 0916 Lab: Create A Second Application – Part 3

Chapter 10: Updating And Deleting Data

Lecture 1: 1001 Updating Data

Lecture 2: 1002 Understanding How Updating Works

Lecture 3: 1003 Deleting Data

Lecture 4: 1004 Understanding Tombstones

Lecture 5: 1005 Using TTLs

Lecture 6: 1006 Updating A TTL

Lecture 7: 1007 Pop Quiz

Lecture 8: 1008 Lab: Update And Delete Data

Chapter 11: Selecting Hardware

Lecture 1: 1101 Understanding Hardware Choices

Lecture 2: 1102 Understanding RAM And CPU Recommendations

Lecture 3: 1103 Selecting Storage

Lecture 4: 1104 Deploying In The Cloud

Lecture 5: 1105 Pop Quiz

Chapter 12: Adding Nodes To A Cluster

Lecture 1: 1201 Understanding Cassandra Nodes

Lecture 2: 1202 Having A Network Connection – Part 1

Lecture 3: 1203 Having A Network Connection – Part 2

Lecture 4: 1204 Having A Network Connection – Part 3

Lecture 5: 1205 Specifying The IP Address Of A Node In Cassandra

Lecture 6: 1206 Specifying Seed Nodes

Lecture 7: 1207 Bootstrapping A Node