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    Apache Cassandra 1.0 Documentation

    « Planning Your Data Model
    About Writes in Cassandra »

    Managing and Accessing Data in Cassandra¶

    This section provides information about accessing and managing data in Cassandra via a client application. Cassandra offers a number of client utilities and application programming interfaces (APIs) that can be used for developing applications that utilize Cassandra for data storage and retrieval.

    • About Writes in Cassandra
      • About Compaction
      • About Transactions and Concurrency Control
      • About Inserts and Updates
      • About Deletes
      • About Hinted Handoff Writes
    • About Reads in Cassandra
    • About Data Consistency in Cassandra
      • Tunable Consistency for Client Requests
      • About Cassandra's Built-in Consistency Repair Features
    • Cassandra Client APIs
      • About Cassandra CLI
      • About CQL
      • Other High-Level Clients
    • Getting Started Using the Cassandra CLI
      • Creating a Keyspace
      • Creating a Column Family
      • Creating a Counter Column Family
      • Inserting Rows and Columns
      • Reading Rows and Columns
      • Setting an Expiring Column
      • Indexing a Column
      • Deleting Rows and Columns
      • Dropping Column Families and Keyspaces
    • Getting Started with CQL
      • Starting the CQL Command-Line Program (cqlsh)
      • Running CQL Commands with cqlsh
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