Learning Apache Cassandra

by Matthew Brown

Overview

If you're an application developer familiar with SQL databases such as MySQL or Postgres, and you want to explore distributed databases such as Cassandra, this is your perfect guide. Even if you've never worked with a distributed database before, Cassandra's intuitive programming interface coupled with the step-by-step examples in this book will have you building highly scalable persistence layers for your applications in no time. However, having prior knowledge of NoSQL would be advisable.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783989201
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	02/27/2015
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.52(d)

About the Author

Matthew Brown

Matthew Brown is a software engineer who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. With a focus on backend and database technologies, Mat has built several high-scale applications, and has found Cassandra particularly well suited to the task. Mat is also an avid open source author, most notably of Cequel, a library for integrating Cassandra into Ruby applications.