Getting started with GraphQL and Apache Cassandra®

GraphQL has gained popularity among developers for implementing APIs due to its simplicity and discoverability features. It is especially useful when working with Apache Cassandra, where designing the proper data model is crucial. In this text, a detailed guide on how to create an API on top of Apache Cassandra using GraphQL is provided. The main advantages of GraphQL include allowing only valid queries, ensuring performance, and providing a perfect match for Cassandra usage by not allowing users to execute forbidden queries like select * from myHugeTable. The text also covers the implementation process in Java with the graphql-java framework and how to enable the interactive GraphQL IDE, GraphiQL, for testing purposes. Overall, using GraphQL with a Cassandra backend can help enforce good performance on your clusters while allowing queries you want to allow.