DataStax Enterprise 2.1 Documentation
Getting Started with DataStax Enterprise¶
The following documents provide guidance to help you use and learn about DataStax Enterprise.
DataStax Enterprise 2.1 Roadmap¶
- About DataStax Enterprise: Information about new and key features.
- Installation Quick Start: Start here to install a single node cluster for evaluation.
- Planning a Production DataStax Enterprise Deployment: Guidelines for determining the size of your production Cassandra cluster.
- Installing a Mulitple Node Cluster: Install DataStax Enterprise for development or production.
- Using DataStax Enterprise on Amazon EC2: Set up and expand DataStax's AMI (Amazon Machine Image).
- Initializing a DataStax Enterprise Cluster: Initialize a DataStax Enterprise cluster on multiple nodes.
- Upgrading to DataStax Enterprise 2.1: Best practices and instructions for upgrading.
- Analytics with Hadoop: Using the Hadoop integration with DataStax Enterprise.
- Enterprise Search with Solr: Using the Lucene and Solr integrations with DataStax Enterprise.
- Moving Data to DataStax Enterprise Using Sqoop: Transfer data between an external data source and Hadoop.
- Using the Log4j Appender: Stream web and application log information into a database cluster.
- Elastic Workload Re-provisioning: Re-provision nodes to meet the requirements of changing workloads.
- Reference: Miscellaneous information.
- Release Notes: Bug fixes and enhancements.
- Troubleshooting Tips: Solve common problems.
DataStax Enterprise Demos¶
- Hive Demo: Demonstrates using Hive to access data in Cassandra.
- Log4j Search Demo: Shows an example of searching and filtering log4j messages generated by a standard Java application.
- Mahout Demo: Demonstrates Mahout support in DataStax Enterprise by determining which entries in the sample input data file remained statistically in control and which have not.
- Pig Demo: Create a Pig relation, perform a simple MapReduce job, and put the results back into CassandraFS or into a Cassandra column family.
- Portfolio Manager Demo: Demonstrates a hybrid workflow using DataStax Enterprise.
- Search Demo: Demonstrates the Solr search capabilities using Wikipedia.
- Sqoop Demo: Migrates data from a MySQL database containing information from the North American Numbering Plan.