Cassandra Data Modeling and Analysis -- Table of Contents -- Cassandra Data Modeling and Analysis -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why subscribe? -- Free access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Downloading the color images of this book -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Bird's Eye View of Cassandra -- What is NoSQL? -- NoSQL Database types -- Key/value pair store -- Column-family store -- Document-based repository -- Graph database -- What is Cassandra? -- Google BigTable -- Amazon Dynamo -- Cassandra's high-level architecture -- Partitioning -- Replication -- Snitch -- Seed node -- Gossip and Failure detection -- Write path -- Read path -- Repair mechanism -- Features of Cassandra -- Summary -- 2. Cassandra Data Modeling -- What is unique to the Cassandra data model? -- Map and SortedMap -- Logical data structure -- Column -- Row -- Column family -- Keyspace -- Super column and super column family -- Collections -- No foreign key -- No join -- No sequence -- Counter -- Time-To-Live -- Secondary index -- Modeling by query -- Relational version -- Cassandra version -- Data modeling considerations -- Data duplication -- Sorting -- Wide row -- Bucketing -- Valueless column -- Time-series data -- Cassandra Query Language -- Summary -- 3. CQL Data Types -- Introduction to CQL -- CQL statements -- CQL command-line client - cqlsh -- Native data types -- Cassandra implementation -- A not-so-long example -- ASCII -- Bigint -- BLOB -- Boolean -- Decimal -- Double -- Float -- Inet -- Int -- Text -- Timestamp -- Timeuuid -- UUID -- Varchar -- Varint -- Counter -- Collections -- Set -- List.

Map -- User-defined type and tuple type -- Summary -- 4. Indexes -- Primary index -- Compound primary key and composite partition key -- Time-series data -- Partitioner -- Murmur3Partitioner -- RandomPartitioner -- ByteOrderedPartitioner -- Paging and token function -- Secondary indexes -- Multiple secondary indexes -- Secondary index do's and don'ts -- Summary -- 5. First-cut Design and Implementation -- Stock Screener Application -- An introduction to financial analysis -- Stock quote data -- Initial data model -- Processing flow -- System design -- The operating system -- Java Runtime Environment -- Java Native Access -- Cassandra version -- Programming language -- Cassandra driver -- The integrated development environment -- The system overview -- Code design and development -- Data Feed Provider -- Collecting stock quote -- Transforming data -- Storing data in Cassandra -- Putting them all together -- Stock Screener -- Data Scoper -- Time-series data -- The screening rule -- The Stock Screener engine -- Test run -- Summary -- 6. Enhancing a Version -- Evolving the data model -- The enhancement approach -- Watch List -- Alert List -- Adding the descriptive stock name -- Queries on alerts -- Enhancing the code -- Data Mapper and Archiver -- Stock Screener Engine -- Queries on Alerts -- Implementing system changes -- Summary -- 7. Deployment and Monitoring -- Replication strategies -- Data replication -- SimpleStrategy -- NetworkTopologyStrategy -- Setting up the cluster for Stock Screener Application -- System and network configuration -- Global settings -- Configuration procedure -- Legacy data migration procedure -- Deploying the Stock Screener Application -- Monitoring -- Nodetool -- JMX and MBeans -- The system log -- Performance tuning -- Java virtual machine -- Caching -- Partition key cache -- Row cache -- Monitoring cache.

Enabling/disabling cache -- Summary -- 8. Final Thoughts -- Supplementary information -- Client drivers -- Security -- Authentication -- Authorization -- Inter-node encryption -- Backup and restore -- Useful websites -- Apache Cassandra official site -- PlanetCassandra -- DataStax -- Hadoop integration -- Summary -- Index.