WHITEPAPER Data Modeling in Apache CassandraTM Five Steps to an Awesome Data Model For global-scale applications, Apache Cassandra is the favorite choice among architects and developers. It offers many advantages including zero-downtime high availability, zero lock-in with easy data portability, and global scale with extreme performance. Today, Cassandra is among the most successful NoSQL databases. It is used in countless applications from online retail to internet portals to time-series databases to mobile application backends. Having a well-designed data model is essential to meeting application performance and scalability goals. In this paper, aimed at technical people experienced with relational databases, we discuss five useful steps to realizing a high-quality data model for your Ca

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