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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

Write operations


During a write request by a client, the coordinator node finds the replicas for the partition key based on the partitioner being used. It then sends the write request to all the nodes that are owners of that partition key range. Coordinator nodes return write success to the client as soon as many number of nodes return write success based on the consistency requirement of the write operation. Let's assume that three nodes are replica nodes for a write operation and the write operation is being done at QUORUM consistency; whenever two out of three nodes return success for the write operation, the coordinator node acknowledges a write operation success to the client. We'll learn more about consistency in the next sections.

On a node, a write request is first written to a file called CommitLog, and then in a memory data structure called a Memtable. Whenever Memtables are full, they are flushed to disk in files called SSTable. A replica node acknowledges a write operation success...