Cassandra Developer
OVERVIEW
Building Strategic Influence in Matrix Organizations
In today’s times, businesses need to process a very large volume and variety of data. This generates a requirement for a highly available, low latency database. Cassandra solves this challenge by allowing high-speed reads and writes across a large and distributed system.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
Why you shouldn't miss this course
By the end of this course, participants will have the leadership toolkit to shape and steer GenAI portfolios across their organization.
01Architect and engineer NoSQL Cassandra databases
02Model data in Cassandra
03Accessing Cassandra using CQL and Java
04Ensuring high read/write speeds while maintaining data consistency
05Integrating Cassandra with Hadoop, Pig and Hive
06Implementing commonly used Cassandra design patterns
PREREQUISITES
Recommended experience
CURRICULUM
Structured for
Strategic Application
Strategic Application
- Distributed and Decentralized
- Elastic Scalability
- High Availability and Fault Tolerance
- Tune-able Consistency
- Row-Oriented
- Schema-Free
- High Performance
- The Relational Data Model
- A Simple Introduction
- Clusters
- Keyspaces
- Hands-on Session
- Single Node Setup
- Multi-Node Cluster Setup
- Key Configurations for Cassandra
- CLI and Hands-On with Cassandra
- Cassandra (Column Family NoSQL DB)
- Key Concepts
- Key Space
- Column Family
- Column Family Options
- Wide Rows
- Skinny Row
- Column Sorting
- Super Columns
- Counter Column Family
- Composite Keys and Columns
- Time To Live
- Secondary Indexes in Cassandra
- A comparison between Custom Indexes and Secondary Indexes
- A comparison between Relational Modeling and Cassandra Modeling
- Key Points while modeling a Cassandra Database
- Patterns and Anti-Patterns in Cassandra Modeling
- Anatomy of Reading operation in Cassandra
- Anatomy of the Write operation in Cassandra
- How is Deletes handled in Cassandra
- System Keyspace
- Peer to Peer Model Logical Data Model: Keyspace, Column Family/Table, Rows, Columns
- Traditional Ring design vs. VNodes
- Partitioners: Murmer3, Random (md5) and ByteOrdered
- Gossip and Failure Detection
- Anti-Entropy and Read Repair
- Memtables, SSTables and Commit Log
- Compaction fundamentals to reduce SSTable data files
- Hinted Handoff
- Compaction
- Bloom Filters, Tombstones
- Managers and Services
- VNodes
- Indexes and Caches
- Coordinator node
- Seed nodes
- Write/Read consistency levels: Any, One, Two, Three, Quorum
- Snitches: Dynamic snitching, Simple Snitch, Rack Inferring Snitch, Property File Snitch, Gossiping Property File Snitch
- Routing Client requests
- Nodetool commands: gossipinfo, cfstats, describing
- YAML file fundamentals
- Operations management web GUI
- Stress testing Cassandra
- CQL command fundamentals
- Key concepts for Reading and Write in Cassandra
- Tunable Consistency
- Simple Get, Multi-get Slice
- Range and Slice
- Slice Predicate
- Delete
- Hands-on CLI commands
- SQL over Cassandra
- Composite Keys
- Hands-on examples on CQL 3.0
- How to establish Client Connections
- Thrift Client
- Connection Pooling
- Auto-discovery and Failover in Hector
- Client with CQL
- Backup and Recovery methods
- Tuning Cassandra
- Balancing
- Bootstrapping
- Node Tools Commands
- Upgrades
- Monitoring critical metrics
- Bulk Loading Data to Cassandra
- Bulk Export of Data from Cassandra
- Hands-on Examples for each of them
Cassandra Hadoop Integration
- Integration of Solr with Cassandra
- Search Query on Cassandra
RECOMMENDED PARTICIPANT SETUP
This course follows Cognixia's AI-first,
hands-on learning model
hands-on learning model
Access to sanitized process maps, KPI definitions, candidate initiative lists, and basic cost baselines (time, cycle time, error or rework rates)
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