Provides concrete, version-aware advice for designing Apache Cassandra schemas using a query-first approach. Covers partition and clustering key selection, denormalization patterns, time-series bucketing, compaction strategy recommendations per Cassandra version, consistency trade-offs, and practical examples and SQL snippets. Includes checklists and anti-patterns to avoid.
Use this skill when designing new Cassandra tables, reviewing an existing schema, modeling time-series or high-write workloads, choosing compaction/TTL strategies, or preparing a migration between Cassandra versions. Start here before writing queries or building application-level joins.
Inferred: Claude-like or code-focused LLM agents (Claude Code, Codex-style, Gemini Code) best suited for technical schema guidance and code snippets.
This skill has not been reviewed by our automated audit pipeline yet.