Data modeling is the process of creating relationships and rules about objects, so that we can decide how to store them in a database. Data modeling defines how we store and query our database systems.

Today’s episode features a discussion of data modeling in Cassandra with Jon Haddad, an evangelist at Datastax. The distributed nature of Cassandra creates some unique rules around how we should model our Cassandra tables. If you are new to Cassandra, there are a few episodes in the past that you may want to listen to first.