Operating Cassandra

• Snitch
  • Dynamic snitching
  • Snitch classes
• Adding, replacing, moving and removing nodes
  • Bootstrap
  • Removing nodes
  • Moving nodes
  • Replacing a dead node
  • Monitoring progress
  • Cleanup data after range movements
• Repair
• Read repair
• Hints
• Compaction
  • Types of compaction
  • When is a minor compaction triggered?
  • Merging sstables
  • Tombstones and Garbage Collection (GC) Grace
  • TTL
  • Fully expired sstables
  • Repaired/unrepaired data
  • Data directories
  • Single sstable tombstone compaction
  • Common options
  • Compaction nodetool commands
  • Switching the compaction strategy and options using JMX
  • More detailed compaction logging
  • Size Tiered Compaction Strategy
  • Leveled Compaction Strategy
  • Time Window CompactionStrategy
• Bloom Filters
  • Changing
• Compression
  • Configuring Compression
  • Benefits and Uses
  • Operational Impact
  • Advanced Use
• Change Data Capture
  • Overview
  • Configuration
  • Reading CommitLogSegments
  • Warnings
  • Further Reading
• Backups
• Bulk Loading
• Monitoring
  • Metric Types
  • Table Metrics
  • Keyspace Metrics
  • ThreadPool Metrics
  • Client Request Metrics
  • Cache Metrics
  • CQL Metrics
  • DroppedMessage Metrics
  • Streaming Metrics
  • Compaction Metrics
  • CommitLog Metrics
  • Storage Metrics
  • HintedHandoff Metrics
  • SSTable Index Metrics
  • BufferPool Metrics
  • Client Metrics
  • JVM Metrics
  • JMX
  • Metric Reporters
• Security
  • TLS/SSL Encryption
  • Roles
  • Authentication
  • Authorization
  • Caching
  • JMX access
• Hardware Choices
  • CPU
  • Memory
  • Disks
  • Common Cloud Choices