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Contents
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Introduction to Apache Cassandra
The History of Cassandra
Core Strengths of Cassandra
Getting Started with Cassandra
What’s New in Cassandra 0.8
Understanding the Cassandra Architecture
About Internode Communications (Gossip)
About Data Partitioning in Cassandra
About Replication in Cassandra
About Client Requests in Cassandra
Planning a Cassandra Cluster Deployment
Installing and Initializing a Cassandra Cluster
Installing Cassandra Using the Packaged Releases
Installing the Cassandra Binary Distribution
Configuring and Starting a Cassandra Cluster
Initializing a Cassandra Cluster on Amazon EC2 Using the DataStax AMI
Upgrading Cassandra: 0.7.1 to 0.8.x
Understanding the Cassandra Data Model
About Keyspaces
About Column Families
About Indexes in Cassandra
Planning Your Data Model
Managing and Accessing Data in Cassandra
About Writes in Cassandra
About Reads in Cassandra
About Data Consistency in Cassandra
Cassandra Client APIs
Getting Started Using the Cassandra CLI
Getting Started with CQL
Configuration
Node and Cluster Configuration (cassandra.yaml)
Keyspace and Column Family Storage Configuration
Java and System Environment Settings Configuration
Authentication and Authorization Configuration
Logging Configuration
Operations
Monitoring a Cassandra Cluster
Tuning Cassandra
Managing a Cassandra Cluster
References
CQL Command Reference
nodetool
stress tool
sstable2json / json2sstable
Binary Memtable
Troubleshooting Guide
Reads are getting slower while writes are still fast
Nodes seem to freeze after some period of time
Nodes are dying with OOM errors
Nodetool or JMX Connections Failing on Remote Nodes
View of ring differs between some nodes
Java reports an error saying there are too many open files
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