What is Apache Cassandra? Apache Cassandra is an open-source, distributed NoSQL database designed to handle large volumes of data across many commodity servers with no single point of failure, offering linear scalability, tunable consistency, and high availability. For data teams, it means storing and serving massive, always-on workloads reliably across multiple data centers, even when individual nodes fail.
As organizations scale to handle high-velocity, always-on data, this program helps your teams design, deploy, and operate Cassandra clusters confidently. Empower your people with expert-led on-site, off-site, and virtual sessions delivered by Edstellar, a premier corporate training provider serving organizations worldwide. Built around your goals, the program turns Apache Cassandra skills into lasting capabilities that lift performance across database, platform, and engineering teams.
Delivered instructor-led and fully customized to your data architecture, the training is available worldwide in person and virtually across popular languages, and covers Cassandra end to end, including data modeling, the ring architecture, replication, consistency levels, CQL, compaction, and cluster operations. Your organization gains highly available data services, lower downtime risk, and engineers who can scale clusters as data grows. Request a tailored proposal to align the curriculum with your workloads and deployment.

- Design query-driven Cassandra data models using partition keys, clustering columns, and denormalization for read performance.
- Understand the ring architecture, partitioning, replication, and tunable consistency levels that deliver high availability.
- Write and optimize queries with Cassandra Query Language (CQL) for real application workloads.
- Configure multi-node and multi-data-center clusters with replication strategies and fault tolerance.
- Tune, monitor, and troubleshoot clusters, including compaction, repairs, and performance bottlenecks.
- Operate Cassandra in production with backup, recovery, security, and capacity planning.
- Apache Cassandra Foundations and Architecture
- Distributed NoSQL concepts and the CAP theorem
- Cassandra ring architecture and peer-to-peer design
- Nodes, partitioning, and consistent hashing
- Replication, the gossip protocol, and snitches
- Data Modeling and CQL
- Query-driven data modeling principles
- Keyspaces, tables, partition keys, and clustering columns
- Cassandra Query Language (CQL) essentials
- Collections, user-defined types, and secondary indexes
- Consistency, Replication, and Availability
- Tunable consistency and write/read consistency levels
- Replication strategies and multi-data-center deployments
- Hinted handoff, read repair, and anti-entropy repair
- Seed nodes and cluster topology
- Storage Internals and Performance Tuning
- Write path: commit log, memtables, and SSTables
- Read path, caching, and bloom filters
- Compaction strategies and tombstones
- Performance tuning and JVM/heap configuration
- Cluster Operations and Administration
- Installing, configuring, and bootstrapping nodes
- Scaling clusters: adding and removing nodes
- Backup, restore, and disaster recovery
- Monitoring with nodetool and troubleshooting
- Security, Integration, and Production Best Practices
- Authentication, authorization, and encryption
- Drivers and application integration
- Cassandra with Spark and analytics workloads
- Production deployment and capacity planning
- Database Administrators
- Data Architects
- Software Engineers
- Data Scientists
- Data Analysts
- IT Managers
- DevOps Engineers
- Cloud Architects
- Backend Developers
- System Administrators
- Data Engineers
- Application Developers
Participants should be comfortable with basic database concepts and SQL, and ideally have some familiarity with the Linux command line. Prior NoSQL or distributed-systems experience is helpful but not required, as the program includes guided setup and fundamentals. Edstellar tailors the starting point to your team's experience, so both engineers new to Cassandra and those operating existing clusters can take part productively.
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