Introduction

• History of Cassandra
• Cassandra’s need and advantages
• Data model and terms

Installation

• Source building and installation Cassandra
• Client CLI and commands

Architecture

• Keyspace
• Replication with Gossip protocol
• Durability with sstables, memtables, commit logs and hinted handoff
• Compaction
• Bloom filters and tombstones
• Concurrency by SEDA

Configuring Cassandra

• Keyspaces API definitions
• Replica and their placement
• Row key sorting by partitioner
• Host proximity by snitch
• Creating a cluster and nodes
• Implementing Security

Connecting

• Client layer with Thrift and Avro
• Different clients for programming languages

Data Read and writes

• Basic properties
• Single, range and multiget slice
• Deletion and programmatic definition

Monitoring

• Using Log4J for logging
• JMX and managed beans
• Heap and thread monitoring

Performance Tuning

• Tuning commit logs and memtables
• Caching and buffer sizing
• Stress testing and JVM tuning

Maintenance

• Nodetool
• cfstats and tpstats
• Snapshot management
• Updating and removing nodes

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