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Cover
Copyright
Table of Contents
Foreword
Foreword
Preface
- Why Apache Cassandra?
- Is This Book for You?
- What’s in This Book?
- Conventions Used in This Book
- Using Code Examples
- O’Reilly Safari
- How to Contact Us
- Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Beyond Relational Databases
- What’s Wrong with Relational Databases?
- A Quick Review of Relational Databases
  - RDBMSs: The Awesome and the Not-So-Much
- Web Scale
- The Rise of NoSQL
- Summary
Chapter 2. Introducing Cassandra
- The Cassandra Elevator Pitch
- Where Did Cassandra Come From?
  - Release History
- Is Cassandra a Good Fit for My Project?
- Getting Involved
- Summary
Chapter 3. Installing Cassandra
- Installing the Apache Distribution
  - Extracting the Download
  - What’s In There?
- Building from Source
  - Additional Build Targets
- Running Cassandra
- Other Cassandra Distributions
- Running the CQL Shell
- Basic cqlsh Commands
- Summary
Chapter 4. The Cassandra Query Language
- The Relational Data Model
- Cassandra’s Data Model
- CQL Types
- Secondary Indexes
- Summary
Chapter 5. Data Modeling
- Conceptual Data Modeling
- RDBMS Design
  - Design Differences Between RDBMS and Cassandra
- Defining Application Queries
- Logical Data Modeling
  - Hotel Logical Data Model
  - Reservation Logical Data Model
- Physical Data Modeling
- Evaluating and Refining
- Defining Database Schema
  - DataStax DevCenter
- Summary
Chapter 6. The Cassandra Architecture
- Data Centers and Racks
- Gossip and Failure Detection
- Snitches
- Rings and Tokens
- Virtual Nodes
- Partitioners
- Replication Strategies
- Consistency Levels
- Queries and Coordinator Nodes
- Memtables, SSTables, and Commit Logs
- Caching
- Hinted Handoff
- Lightweight Transactions and Paxos
- Tombstones
- Bloom Filters
- Compaction
- Anti-Entropy, Repair, and Merkle Trees
- Staged Event-Driven Architecture (SEDA)
- Managers and Services
  - Cassandra Daemon
  - Storage Engine
  - Storage Service
  - Storage Proxy
  - Messaging Service
  - Stream Manager
  - CQL Native Transport Server
- System Keyspaces
- Summary
Chapter 7. Configuring Cassandra
- Cassandra Cluster Manager
- Creating a Cluster
- Seed Nodes
- Partitioners
- Snitches
- Node Configuration
- Adding Nodes to a Cluster
- Dynamic Ring Participation
- Replication Strategies
- Summary
Chapter 8. Clients
- Hector, Astyanax, and Other Legacy Clients
- DataStax Java Driver
- DataStax Python Driver
- DataStax Node.js Driver
- DataStax Ruby Driver
- DataStax C# Driver
- DataStax C/C++ Driver
- DataStax PHP Driver
- Summary
Chapter 9. Reading and Writing Data
- Writing
- Reading
- Deleting
- Summary
Chapter 10. Monitoring
- Logging
  - Tailing
  - Examining Log Files
- Monitoring Cassandra with JMX
  - Connecting to Cassandra via JConsole
  - Overview of MBeans
- Cassandra’s MBeans
- Monitoring with nodetool
  - Getting Cluster Information
  - Getting Statistics
- Summary
Chapter 11. Maintenance
- Health Check
- Basic Maintenance
- Adding Nodes
  - Adding Nodes to an Existing Data Center
  - Adding a Data Center to a Cluster
- Handling Node Failure
- Upgrading Cassandra
- Backup and Recovery
- SSTable Utilities
- Maintenance Tools
  - DataStax OpsCenter
  - Netflix Priam
- Summary
Chapter 12. Performance Tuning
- Managing Performance
- Caching
- Memtables
- Commit Logs
- SSTables
- Hinted Handoff
- Compaction
- Concurrency and Threading
- Networking and Timeouts
- JVM Settings
  - Memory
  - Garbage Collection
- Using cassandra-stress
- Summary
Chapter 13. Security
- Authentication and Authorization
- Encryption
- JMX Security
  - Securing JMX Access
  - Security MBeans
- Summary
Chapter 14. Deploying and Integrating
- Planning a Cluster Deployment
- Cloud Deployment
- Integrations
- Summary
Index
About the Authors
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