A startup called Sparkify wants to analyze the data they've been collecting on songs and user activity on their new music streaming app. The analysis team is particularly interested in understanding what songs users are listening to. Currently, there is no easy way to query the data to generate the results, since the data reside in a directory of CSV files on user activity on the app.
They'd like a data engineer to create an Apache Cassandra database which can create queries on song play data to answer the questions, and wish to bring you on the project. Your role is to create a database for this analysis. You'll be able to test your database by running queries given to you by the analytics team from Sparkify to create the results.
There is one dataset called event_data
which is in a directory of CSV files partitioned by date.
For NoSQL databases, we design the schema based on the queries we know we want to perform.
We want to ask 3 question of our data:
- Give me the artist, song title and song's length in the music app history that was heard during sessionId = 338,
and itemInSession = 4
SELECT artist, song, length from table_1 WHERE sessionId=338 AND itemInSession=4
- Give me only the following: name of artist, song (sorted by itemInSession) and user (first and last name)
for userid = 10, sessionid = 182.
SELECT artist, song, firstName, lastName FROM table_2 WHERE userId=10 and sessionId=182
- Give me every user name (first and last) in my music app history who listened to the song 'All Hands Against His Own'
SELECT firstName, lastName FROM table_3 WHERE song='All Hands Against His Own'
Give me the artist, song title and song's length in the music app history that was heard during sessionId = 338, and itemInSession = 4
SELECT artist, song, length
from session_items
WHERE sessionId=338 AND itemInSession=4;
artist | song | length | |
---|---|---|---|
0 | Faithless | Music Matters (Mark Knight Dub) | 495.30731201171875 |
Give me only the following: name of artist, song (sorted by itemInSession) and user (first and last name) for userid = 10, sessionid = 182
SELECT artist, song, firstName, lastName
FROM session_users
WHERE userId=10 and sessionId=182;
artist | song | firstName | lastName | |
---|---|---|---|---|
0 | Down To The Bone | Keep On Keepin' On | Sylvie | Cruz |
1 | Three Drives | Greece 2000 | Sylvie | Cruz |
2 | Sebastien Tellier | Kilometer | Sylvie | Cruz |
3 | Lonnie Gordon | Catch You Baby (Steve Pitron & Max Sanna Radio Edit) | Sylvie | Cruz |
Give me every user name (first and last) in my music app history who listened to the song 'All Hands Against His Own'.
SELECT firstName, lastName
FROM song_users
WHERE song='All Hands Against His Own';
firstName | lastName | |
---|---|---|
0 | Jacqueline | Lynch |
1 | Tegan | Levine |
2 | Sara | Johnson |