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With this hands-on guide, you'll learn how Apache Cassandra handles hundreds of terabytes of data while remaining highly available across multiple data centers capabilities that have attracted Facebook, Twitter, and other data-intensive companies. Updated for Cassandra 3. 0, this second edition provides the technical details and practical examples you need to assess this database management system and put it to work in a production environment. Authors Jeff Carpenter and Eben Hewitt demonstrate the advantages of Cassandra's nonrelational design, and pay special attention to data modeling. If you're a developer, DBA, application architect, or manager looking to solve a database scaling issue or future-proof your application, this guide shows you how to harness Cassandra's speed and flexibility.