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Learning Apache Cassandra

You're reading from   Learning Apache Cassandra Managing fault-tolerant, scalable data with high performance

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787127296
Length 360 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

1. Getting Up and Running with Cassandra FREE CHAPTER 2. The First Table 3. Organizing Related Data 4. Beyond Key-Value Lookup 5. Establishing Relationships 6. Denormalizing Data for Maximum Performance 7. Expanding Your Data Model 8. Collections, Tuples, and User-Defined Types 9. Aggregating Time-Series Data 10. How Cassandra Distributes Data 11. Cassandra Multi-Node Cluster 12. Application Development Using the Java Driver 13. Peeking under the Hood 14. Authentication and Authorization

Storing follow relationships


We've now created two tables, each of which allows us to answer two important questions about follow relationships: first, whom a user follows; and second, who follows a user. Now let's establish some follow relationships.

For now, let's have alice follow a couple of other users, bob and carol:

INSERT INTO "user_outbound_follows" 
  ("follower_username", "followed_username") 
VALUES ('alice', 'bob'); 
INSERT INTO "user_inbound_follows" 
  ("followed_username", "follower_username") 
VALUES ('bob', 'alice'); 
INSERT INTO "user_outbound_follows" 
  ("follower_username", "followed_username") 
VALUES ('alice', 'carol'); 
INSERT INTO "user_inbound_follows" 
  ("followed_username", "follower_username") 
VALUES ('carol', 'alice');

For each follow relationship, we have to insert two rows: one in the user_outbound_follows table to store the relationship from the perspective of the follower, and one in the user_inbound_follows table to store the relationship from the perspective...

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