Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Summary
In this chapter, you explored the reasons to choose Cassandra from among the many data-
bases available, and having determined that Cassandra is a great choice, you installed it on
your development machine.
You had your first taste of the Cassandra Query Language when you issued your first com-
mand via the CQL shell in order to create a keyspace. You're now poised to begin working
with Cassandra in earnest.
In the next chapter, we'll begin building the MyStatus application, starting out with a
simple table to model users. We'll cover a lot more CQL commands, and before you know
it, you'll be reading and writing data like a pro.