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The rising popularity of Apache Cassandra rests on its ability to handle very large data sets that include hundreds of terabytes - and that's why this distributed database has been chosen by organizations such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, and Rackspace. With this hands- on guide, you'll get all the details and practical examples you need to understand Cassandra's non- relational database design and put it to work in a production environment. Author Eben Hewitt (Java SOA Cookbook) pays special attention to data modeling, and demonstrates Cassandra's many advantages, including its high availability, eventual consistency model, and ability to scale easily. If you're a developer with a startup, you'll learn how to future-proof your application by implementing Cassandra before your storage needs become critical. Join the growing list data- intensive organizations that have come to rely on Cassandra's design. This book shows you how.

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Eben Hewitt is a Principal on the architecture team at a multi-billion dollar national retail company, where he has been focused on designing and building their Service Oriented Architecture. He has worked in IT for ten years, working on large-scale web and SOA integration projects, distributed software, and messaging systems. Hewitt is the author of four previous programming books, several industry articles, and is a contributor to the O'Reilly book 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know, edited by Richard Monson-Haefel. He is a popular speaker at industry conferences and local user groups.

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