In this chapter, you have covered the fundamentals of NoSQL in general and specifically Cassandra. You got hands-on experience in setting up the Cassandra cluster as well as got to know about varied APIs, drivers, and protocols that provide programmatic access to Cassandra. We also integrated Cassandra as a data store to our Storm topology for data insertion.

In the next chapter, we will touch upon some integral aspects of Cassandra, specifically consistency and availability.