Apache Cassandra 1.2 Documentation
Apache Cassandra 1.2 Documentation¶
Apache Cassandra is a free, open-source, highly scalable, distributed database system for managing large amounts of data.
DataStax Community Edition is a smart bundle comprised of the most up-to-date and stable version of Apache Cassandra, DataStax OpsCenter Community Edition, and cqlsh.
- What's new in Apache Cassandra
- Understanding the Cassandra Architecture
- Installing a Cassandra Cluster
- Installing Cassandra RHEL or CentOS packages
- Installing Cassandra Debian packages
- Installing the Cassandra binary tarball distribution
- Recommended settings for production installations
- Installing the JRE and JNA
- Installing a Cassandra cluster on Amazon EC2
- Expanding a Cassandra AMI cluster
- Upgrading Cassandra
- Security
- Securing a cluster with client-to-node encryption
- Securing a cluster with node-to-node encryption
- Preparing server certificates
- Configuring and using internal authentication
- Managing object permissions using internal authorization
- Configuring system_auth keyspace replication
- Configuring firewall port access
- Initializing a Cassandra cluster
- Understanding the Cassandra data model
- Querying Cassandra
- Getting started using CQL
- Creating and updating a keyspace
- Creating a table
- Querying system tables
- Retrieving columns
- Determining time-to-live and write time
- Altering a table to add columns
- Removing data
- Using collections: set, list, and map
- Using the list type
- Using the map type
- Indexing a column
- Paging through unordered partitioner results
- Getting started using the Cassandra CLI
- CQL 3 Reference
- Managing and accessing data
- Configuration
- Operations
- References
- 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
- Insufficient user resource limits errors
- Cannot initialize class org.xerial.snappy.Snappy
- DataStax Community release notes
- Glossary of Cassandra Terms