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Learning Apache Cassandra - Second Edition

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Learning Apache Cassandra - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Cassandra is a distributed database that stands out thanks to its robust feature set and intuitive interface, while providing high availability and scalability of a distributed data store. This book will introduce you to the rich feature set offered by Cassandra, and empower you to create and manage a highly scalable, performant and fault-tolerant database layer. The book starts by explaining the new features implemented in Cassandra 3.x and get you set up with Cassandra. Then you’ll walk through data modeling in Cassandra and the rich feature set available to design a flexible schema. Next you’ll learn to create tables with composite partition keys, collections and user-defined types and get to know different methods to avoid denormalization of data. You will then proceed to create user-defined functions and aggregates in Cassandra. Then, you will set up a multi node cluster and see how the dynamics of Cassandra change with it. Finally, you will implement some application-level optimizations using a Java client. By the end of this book, you'll be fully equipped to build powerful, scalable Cassandra database layers for your applications.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

QueryBuilder API


QueryBuilder API provides another way to execute queries without using prepared statements. QueryBuilder has many methods to help generate dynamic queries. Some of these methods are as follows:

  • Methods to select/insert/update/delete: select() and update(String table)
  • Methods representing a WHERE clause: eq(String name, Object value)
  • Methods representing an assignment: set(String name, Object value)

We will look at the QueryBuilder API to build the INSERT, UPDATE, and SELECT statements.

Building an INSERT statement

First, let's write a program, which uses the QueryBuilder API to build an INSERT statement and execute it. Then, we will walk through each method used in the program. To demonstrate this, we will update the email of user alice and set the location as well. Let's the name the program QueryBuilderInsert.java:

import com.datastax.driver.core.Cluster;
import com.datastax.driver.core.Session;
import com.datastax.driver.core.Statement;
import com.datastax.driver.core.querybuilder...