Data Model Meets World - Blog Series

The text discusses the creation of a data model for hotel reservation applications using Apache Cassandra. It highlights the importance of good data modeling in building successful applications with Cassandra, and provides an overview of the "query-first" design approach commonly used in this context. The author presents a simplified hotel data model from their book, along with access patterns and logical data models that support shopping for hotel rooms. They also discuss potential extensions to the model, such as supporting multiple ways of locating hotels by attributes like name, geolocation, or amenities. Future installments will explore options for implementing these extensions, including Cassandra's indexes, materialized views, and complementary search technologies.