About This Book Learn to install and use Cassandra from the ground up Design rich schemas that capture the relationships between different data types using compound primary keys Master the advanced features available in Cassandra 2.0 through a step-by-step tutorial that builds a real-world application's database layer. Who This Book Is ForIf 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 the perfect guide for you. 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.