<p><em>Beginning Apache Cassandra Development</em> introduces you to one of the most robust and best-performing NoSQL database platforms on the planet. Apache Cassandra is a document database following the JSON document model. It is specifically designed to manage large amounts of data across many commodity servers without there being any single point of failure. This design approach makes Apache Cassandra a robust and easy-to-implement platform when high-availability is needed. </p><p>Apache Cassandra is a NoSQL database. What that means to you and your application is that you get a database that can focus on throughput and performance without the sort of processing overhead entailed by the traditional, relational database model. Certain types of applications benefit tremendously from this approach, including applications meant to serve media such as video at high-demand, to generate search results quickly, or otherwise to provide search and retrieval to extraordinary volumes of users at speed. </p><p>Apache Cassandra can be used by developers in Java, PHP, Python, and JavaScript. These are the primary and commonly-used languages. In <em>Beginning Apache Cassandra Development</em>, author Vivek Mishra takes you through using Apache Cassandra from each of these primary languages. Mishra also covers the Cassandra Query Language (CQL) that is the Apache Cassandra analog to SQL. You'll learn to develop applications sourcing data from Cassandra, to query that data, and to deliver it at speed to your application's users. </p>