Presentation: Cassandra Basics - Indexing
A very informative presentation by Benjamin Black on Cassandra indexing:
There are so many interesting things to learn from these slides. Benjamin is briefly introducing the main Cassandra terms — if you are not familiar with them you can read more in this Cassandra tutorial — and moves to explain how column sorting and partitioning strategies should be used. Also to mention, some really quotable fragments from the deck:
Relational stores are schema oriented. Start from your schema & work forwards
Column stores are query oriented. Start from your queries & work backwards
Cassandra is an index construction kit
