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Apache Cassandra Essentials

By : Nitin Padalia
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Apache Cassandra Essentials

By: Nitin Padalia

Overview of this book

Apache Cassandra Essentials takes you step-by-step from from the basics of installation to advanced installation options and database design techniques. It gives you all the information you need to effectively design a well distributed and high performance database. You’ll get to know about the steps that are performed by a Cassandra node when you execute a read/write query, which is essential to properly maintain of a Cassandra cluster and to debug any issues. Next, you’ll discover how to integrate a Cassandra driver in your applications and perform read/write operations. Finally, you’ll learn about the various tools provided by Cassandra for serviceability aspects such as logging, metrics, backup, and recovery.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Apache Cassandra Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

SimpleStrategy


The SimpleStrategy is a basic replication strategy. It's used when using a single datacenter. This method is rack unaware. It places replicas on subsequent nodes in a clockwise order.

Here is a sample CQL command to create a keyspace with SimpleStrategy and a replication factor of 3, which can be fired from the cqlsh prompt:

cqlsh>  CREATE KEYSPACE cassandrademodb WITH REPLICATION = { 'class' : 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 3 };