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Shilpi Saxena
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Shilpi Saxena

Shilpi Saxena is an IT professional and also a technology evangelist. She is an engineer who has had exposure to various domains (machine to machine space, healthcare, telecom, hiring, and manufacturing). She has experience in all the aspects of conception and execution of enterprise solutions. She has been architecting, managing, and delivering solutions in the Big Data space for the last 3 years; she also handles a high-performance and geographically-distributed team of elite engineers. Shilpi has more than 12 years (3 years in the Big Data space) of experience in the development and execution of various facets of enterprise solutions both in the products and services dimensions of the software industry. An engineer by degree and profession, she has worn varied hats, such as developer, technical leader, product owner, tech manager, and so on, and she has seen all the flavors that the industry has to offer. She has architected and worked through some of the pioneers' production implementations in Big Data on Storm and Impala with autoscaling in AWS. Shilpi has also authored Real-time Analytics with Storm and Cassandra (https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/learning-real-time-analytics-storm-and-cassandra) with Packt Publishing.
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Q.1. State whether the following statements are true or false:

  1. Cassandra is a document-based NoSQL.

  2. Cassandra has a single point of failure.

  3. Cassandra uses consistent hashing for key distribution.

  4. Cassandra works on master-slave architecture.

Q.2. Fill in the blanks:

  1. _______________attributes of the CAP theorem are adhered to by Cassandra.

  2. _______________ is the salient feature that makes Cassandra a contender to be used in conjunction with Storm.

  3. The ____________ is an API to access Cassandra using a Java client, and is a Greek mythological character—brother of Cassandra.

Q.3. Complete the use case mentioned in the chapter and demonstrate end-to-end execution to populate data into Cassandra.

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Shilpi Saxena

Shilpi Saxena is an IT professional and also a technology evangelist. She is an engineer who has had exposure to various domains (machine to machine space, healthcare, telecom, hiring, and manufacturing). She has experience in all the aspects of conception and execution of enterprise solutions. She has been architecting, managing, and delivering solutions in the Big Data space for the last 3 years; she also handles a high-performance and geographically-distributed team of elite engineers. Shilpi has more than 12 years (3 years in the Big Data space) of experience in the development and execution of various facets of enterprise solutions both in the products and services dimensions of the software industry. An engineer by degree and profession, she has worn varied hats, such as developer, technical leader, product owner, tech manager, and so on, and she has seen all the flavors that the industry has to offer. She has architected and worked through some of the pioneers' production implementations in Big Data on Storm and Impala with autoscaling in AWS. Shilpi has also authored Real-time Analytics with Storm and Cassandra (https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/learning-real-time-analytics-storm-and-cassandra) with Packt Publishing.
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