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In this section, we will create a Cassandra index. The below code explains and simulated a simple indexer. In this index, few components are added. In this code, we read text files as resources for this index generator. After reading content into memory, we pass it to tokenizer. This tokenizer is used to remove all none alpha numeric characters using regular expressions. After this it will separate text files using spaces as delimiter. Finally it chooses randomly words which will be used as tags. ...

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In this section, we will discuss that how we can delete a value from Cassandra database using Java code.

Java Code: This is the code to explain Cassandra Delete Operation

import org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Deletion;
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long timestamp =System.currentTimeMillis();
List columns = new ArrayList();
columns.add("email".getBytes());
SlicePredicate slicePredicate = new SlicePredicate();
slicePredicate.setColumn_names(columns);
Deletion deletion = new Deletion(timestamp);
deletion.setPredicate(slicePredicate);

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To update data in the Cassandra database, batch_update method is used to perform this action. In the below code, we want to update the email address in the database.

Java Code: This is the code to explain Cassandra Update Operation

long timestamp = System.currentTimeMillis();
Column column = new Column("email".getBytes("utf-8"), "ronald@mathies.nl".getBytes("utf-8"), timestamp);
ColumnOrSuperColumn columnOrSuperColumn = new ColumnOrSuperColumn();
columnOrSuperColumn.setColumn(column);

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For example we have a number of authors in the database and we want to read them in Java. Below code explains this operation in detail.

Java Code: This is the code to Cassandra Read Operation

import org.apache.cassandra.thrift.SlicePredicate;
import org.apache.cassandra.thrift.SliceRange;
import org.apache.cassandra.thrift.ColumnOrSuperColumn;
import org.apache.cassandra.thrift.ColumnParent;
import org.apache.cassandra.thrift.ConsistencyLevel;
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SlicePredicate slicePredicate = new SlicePredicate();

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Following code explains add operation in java.

Java Code: This is the code to explain Cassandra Add Operation

Map<String, List<ColumnOrSuperColumn>> data = new HashMap<String, List<ColumnOrSuperColumn>>();        
List<ColumnOrSuperColumn> columns = new ArrayList<ColumnOrSuperColumn>();
// Create the email column.
ColumnOrSuperColumn c = new ColumnOrSuperColumn();
c.setColumn(new Column("email".getBytes("utf-8"), "ronald (at) sodeso.nl".getBytes("utf-8"),

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We can perform full text search in some application by reading whole content of the document and searching for the required data in document at acceptable speed. This operation is performed every time a query is executed. This approach is not feasible and recommended in cases where a huge amount of data is used for searching. Also almost no one is using this approach to search documents or database.
With increasing amount of data on the internet, we need to search millions or sometime billions ...

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First thing to do is to create connection to database. For this purpose, on port 9160 open up a connection that would be a default port of Cassandra. Hand over it to the client of Cassandra and he will be taking care to communication to the server:

Java Code: This is the code to explain Cassandra Database Connection

import org.apache.thrift.protocol.TBinaryProtocol;
import org.apache.thrift.protocol.TProtocol;
import org.apache.thrift.transport.TSocket;
import org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransport;

import org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra;

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Keyspaces are very simple. From RDBMS view point, you may make a comparison to your schema. Normally, you just have 1/application. ColumnFamily are present in a key space. However, it shall be noticed that no relationship exists b/w ColumnFamily as they are separate containers. Than, comes the turn of different containers sorting mechanism. This clearly lets you know that in Cassandra, how data model works.

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Finally, largest container the SuperColumnFamily is here. If ColumnFamily is understandable by you then such construction is not at all harder. Despite of Column, in inner most Map, consider SuperColumns. This will surely make an extra dimension addition.Key of the Map (that consists of SuperColumn) shall be similar as that of name of the SuperColumn.

Java Code: This is the code to explain Cassandra SuperColumn Family

public class SuperColumnFamily {
  Byte[] name;

  // The key is a user generated key
  Map<Byte[]

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ColumnFamily is considered as a structure which is responsible for keeping infinite rows for people who have RDBMS background. This structure has much resemblance with a Table. You may have an idea that ColumnFamily consists of a name that is compared to Table name. A map with a value(that is a map consisting of Columns) and a key (that is comparable to the identifier of rows). Map and SuperColumn have similar rules and key consists of similar value of name of the Column.

Java Code: This is the code to explain Cassandra Column Family

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Updated 02-23-2012 at 06:01 PM by Cassandra

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Before taking any start along with Cassandra, it is important to be well aware of the fact that many alternatives exists for complimenting the relational database. E.g., memcached has been made to be used for Livejournal.com, and is free of cost. If you apply such solution to some larger Mysql database alone, you may expect a great performance boost of 100 times.

Other than this, another famous Nosql solution that has been well renowned is MongoDB, which has been written in language ...

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Why Cassandra shall be chosen against any other NoSQL solution?

• Main selling point of Cassandra is that it is being written in Java.
• Cassandra has been present on the largest website of the world i.e. Face book.
• Cassandra has met all the requirements to be decentralized and it doesn’t have one single failure point.
• Read as well write throughput have been seen to increase in linear fashion, when newer machines get added without any sort of downtime or interruption.
• It gets

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The Apache Cassandra Project is involved in creating the highly scalable database that is second generation distributed. It brings the Bigtable’s ColumnFamily (based data model) & fully distributed design of Dynamo, together.

Apache Cassandra is basically an open source that is a highly available database and distributed. Architecture of Apache Cassandra incorporates the design, from Dynamo project. It makes use of data model that is Google’s Bigtable data model based.
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