Index

A

• ack / Gossip
• administration, managing with nodetool
  • about / Managing administration with nodetool
  • decommission command / decommission
  • removenode command / removenode
  • move command / move
  • repair command / repair
  • upgradesstable command / upgradesstable
  • snapshot command / snapshot
• amazon machine image (AMI) / Adding nodes to a cluster
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) / Hard disk capacity
• Amazon with Dynamo
  • URL / Problems in the RDBMS world
• analytical tools
  • Hadoop, integrating with / Integration with other analytical tools
• anti-entropy
  • about / Read repair and anti-entropy
• Apache httpd
  • configuring / Configuring Apache httpd
• application, writing
  • about / Writing your application
  • connection, obtaining / Getting the connection
  • queries, executing / Executing queries
  • object mapping / Object mapping
• AP system / The significance of the CAP theorem
• architecture, Cassandra
  • about / Understanding the architecture of Cassandra
  • ring representation / Ring representation
  • working / How Cassandra works
  • components / The components of Cassandra
• ASFRepositoy
  • Cassandra, installing from / Installing from ASFRepository for Debian or Ubuntu
• ASSUME command
  • about / ASSUME
• authentication / Authorization and authentication
• authorization / Authorization and authentication
• availability, CAP theorem / Availability
• AWS EBS
  • URL / Hard disk capacity

B

• B+ tree implementation
  • URL / LSM tree
• backup
  • about / Backup and restoration
• BATCH statement
  • executing / Executing the BATCH statement
• BigTable
  • URL / Problems in the RDBMS world, Partitioner
• binary file, Oracle website
  • URL / RHEL and CentOS systems
• blogs table / Modeling data
• bloom filter
  • about / The bloom filter
  • working / The bloom filter
• Byte-ordered partitioner / The Byte-ordered partitioner

C

• caching-specific settings, cassandra.yaml
  • key_cache_size_in_mb / Cache settings
  • key_cache_save_period / Cache settings
  • key_cache_keys_to_save / Cache settings
  • row_cache_size_in_mdb / Cache settings
  • row_cache_save_period / Cache settings
  • row_cache_keys_to_save / Cache settings
  • memory_allocator / Cache settings
• CAP theorem
  • about / The CAP theorem
  • consistency system / Consistency
  • availability / Availability
  • partition-tolerance / Partition-tolerance
  • significance / The significance of the CAP theorem
• CAPTURE command
  • about / CAPTURE
• Cassandra
  • about / Introduction to Cassandra, Cassandra
  • distributed database / A distributed database
  • high availability / High availability
  • replication / Replication
  • multiple data centers / Multiple data centers
  • installing, locally / Installing Cassandra locally
  • working / Cassandra in action, How Cassandra works, Cassandra and Hadoop in action
  • data, modeling / Modeling data
  • code, writing / Writing code
  • application, writing / Writing your application
  • architecture / Understanding the architecture of Cassandra
  • write, in action / Write in action
  • read, in action / Read in action
  • installing / Installing Cassandra
  • URL, for download page / Installing Cassandra
  • installing, from tarball / Installing from a tarball
  • installing, from ASFRepository for Debian or Ubuntu / Installing from ASFRepository for Debian or Ubuntu
  • and Hadoop / Hadoop and Cassandra
  • preparing, for Hadoop / Preparing Cassandra for Hadoop
  • example, executing / Executing, debugging, monitoring, and looking at results
  • example, monitoring / Executing, debugging, monitoring, and looking at results
  • example, debugging / Executing, debugging, monitoring, and looking at results
  • Pig, integrating with / Integrating Pig and Cassandra
• Cassandra, with Hadoop MapReduce
  • about / Cassandra with Hadoop MapReduce
  • ColumnFamilyInputFormat / ColumnFamilyInputFormat
  • ColumnFamilyOutputFormat / ColumnFamilyOutputFormat
  • CqlOutputFormat / CqlOutputFormat and CqlInputFormat
  • CqlInputFormat / CqlOutputFormat and CqlInputFormat
  • ConfigHelper / ConfigHelper
• Cassandra, with Hive
  • reference link / Hadoop and Cassandra
• Cassandra-Balancer
  • URL / Load balancing
• Cassandra-Storm integration project
  • URL / Integration with other analytical tools
• cassandra.yaml
  • cluster setup properties section / Configuring a Cassandra cluster
  • performance tuning properties section / Configuring a Cassandra cluster
  • client connection properties section / Configuring a Cassandra cluster
  • internode communication section / Configuring a Cassandra cluster
  • backup settings section / Configuring a Cassandra cluster
  • authorization and authentication settings section / Configuring a Cassandra cluster
  • about / More tuning via cassandra.yaml
  • commitlog_sync / commitlog_sync
  • column_index_size_in_kb / column_index_size_in_kb
  • commitlog_total_space_in_mb / commitlog_total_space_in_mb
• Cassandra 2.0.0
  • URL, for downloading / Installing Cassandra locally
• Cassandra binaries
  • about / Cassandra binaries
  • bin/cassandra / Cassandra binaries
  • bin/cassandta-cli / Cassandra binaries
  • bin/cqlsh / Cassandra binaries
  • tools/bin/json2sstable / Cassandra binaries
  • tools/bin/sstable2json / Cassandra binaries
  • bin/sstablekeys / Cassandra binaries
  • bin/sstableloader / Cassandra binaries
• Cassandra bulk loader
  • used, for restoring data / Using the Cassandra bulk loader to restore the data
• Cassandra cluster
  • running / Running a Cassandra cluster
• Cassandra cluster, configuring
  • about / Configuring a Cassandra cluster
  • cluster name / The cluster name
  • seed node / The seed node
  • Num tokens, versus Initial token / num_tokens versus initial_token
  • Num tokens / num_tokens
  • Initial token / initial_token
  • partitioners / Partitioners
  • snitches / Snitches
  • replica placement strategies / Replica placement strategies
  • cluster, launching with script / Launching a cluster with a script
  • keyspace, creating / Creating a keyspace
• Cassandra data model
  • about / A brief introduction to a data model, The Cassandra data model
  • counter column (cell) / The counter column (cell)
  • expiring cell / The expiring cell
  • column family / The column family
  • keyspaces / Keyspaces
  • data types / Data types
  • CQL3 / CQL3
  • granting permission / The granting permission
• Cassandra File System (CFS) / Cassandra filesystem
  • reference link / Cassandra filesystem
• Cassandra installation
  • anatomy / Anatomy of the installation
• Cassandra integration, with Oozie
  • reference link / Hadoop and Cassandra
• Cassandra JMX interface
  • about / Cassandra's JMX interface
  • reference link / Cassandra's JMX interface
• Cassandra log
  • about / Cassandra log
• Cassandra Query Language (CQL) / Writing code
• CA system / The significance of the CAP theorem
• cell
  • about / Understanding the architecture of Cassandra, The Cassandra data model
• cell name
  • about / The Cassandra data model
• cell value
  • about / The Cassandra data model
• CentOS
  • Oracle Java 7, installing for / RHEL and CentOS systems
• cfstats command
  • about / cfstats
  • Read Latency and Write Latency / cfstats
  • Read Count and Write Count / cfstats
  • Pending Tasks / cfstats
  • Space Used (live and total) / cfstats
• chunk
  • about / Table properties
• cluster
  • backing up / Backup and restoration
• clustering key
  • about / A brief introduction to a data model
• cluster name / The cluster name
• code, writing
  • about / Writing code
  • keyspace, creating / Setting up
  • tables, creating / Setting up
  • records, inserting in schema / Inserting records
  • data, retrieving / Retrieving data
• collections, CQL
  • about / Collections in CQL
  • lists / Lists
  • sets / Sets
  • maps / Maps
• column
  • adding / Adding a column
  • renaming / Renaming a column
  • data type, modifying of / Changing the data type
• column families
  • about / A brief introduction to a data model
• column family
  • about / The Cassandra data model, The column family
• ColumnFamilyInputFormat
  • about / ColumnFamilyInputFormat
• ColumnFamilyOutputFormat
  • about / ColumnFamilyOutputFormat
• columns
  • about / The Cassandra data model
• command-line interface (CLI) / Cassandra binaries
• comments table / Modeling data
• commit log
  • about / Commit log
• compaction
  • about / Compaction
• compactionstats command / compactionstats
• compaction strategies
  • SizeTieredCompactionStrategy / Table properties
  • LeveledCompactionStrategy / Table properties
• components, Cassandra
  • about / The components of Cassandra
  • messaging service / The messaging service
  • gossip protocol / Gossip
  • failure detection / Failure detection
  • partitioner / Partitioner
  • replication / Replication
  • LSM tree / LSM tree
  • commit log / Commit log
  • MemTable / MemTable
  • SSTable / SSTable
  • compaction / Compaction
  • tombstones / Tombstones
  • hinted handoff / Hinted handoff
  • read repair / Read repair and anti-entropy
  • anti-entropy / Read repair and anti-entropy
• composite key
  • about / A brief introduction to a data model
• composite partition key
  • about / A brief introduction to a data model
• Compressed Ordinary Object Pointers
  • URL / Other JVM options
• compression, properties
  • chunk_length_kb / Table properties
  • crc_check_chance / Table properties
  • time_to_live / Table properties
  • read_repair_chance / Table properties
  • gc_grace_seconds / Table properties
  • index_interval / Table properties
  • memtable_flush_period / Table properties
  • replicate_on_write / Table properties
  • speculative_retry / Table properties
• concurrent mark and sweep garbage collector (CMS GC) / Garbage collection
• ConfigHelper class
  • about / ConfigHelper
  • wide row support / Wide row support
  • bulk loading / Bulk loading
  • secondary index support / Secondary index support
• ConfigHelper class, methods
  • setInputInitialAddress / ConfigHelper
  • SetInputRpcPort / ConfigHelper
  • setInputPartitioner / ConfigHelper
  • SetInputColumnFamily / ConfigHelper
  • SetInputSlicePredicate / ConfigHelper
  • SetOutputInitialAddress / ConfigHelper
  • SetOutputRpcPort / ConfigHelper
  • SetOutputPartitioner / ConfigHelper
  • SetOutputColumnFamily / ConfigHelper
• configuration files
  • about / Configuration files
  • data directories, setting up / Setting up data and commitlog directories
  • commitlog directories, setting up / Setting up data and commitlog directories
• CONSISTENCY command
  • about / CONSISTENCY
• ConsistencyLevel
  • about / Write in action
• consistency level (CL) / Replication
• consistent system, CAP theorem / Consistency
• coordinator node
  • about / Write in action
• COPY command
  • about / COPY
• COPY command, options
  • HEADER / COPY
  • DELIMITER / COPY
  • QUOTE / COPY
  • ESCAPE / COPY
  • NULL / COPY
  • ENCODING / COPY
• counter column (cell)
  • about / The counter column (cell)
• counters table / Modeling data
• CP system / The significance of the CAP theorem
• CQL
  • about / The Cassandra data model
  • collections / Collections in CQL
• CQL3
  • about / The Cassandra data model, CQL3
  • keyspace, creating / Creating a keyspace
  • keyspace, altering / Altering a keyspace
  • table, creating / Creating a table
  • table, altering / Altering a table
  • table, dropping / Dropping a table
  • index, creating / Creating an index
  • index, dropping / Dropping an index
  • data type, creating / Creating a data type
  • custom type, altering / Altering a custom type
  • custom type, dropping / Dropping a custom type
  • triggers, creating / Creating triggers
  • triggers, dropping / Dropping a trigger
  • user, creating / Creating a user
  • user, altering / Altering a user
  • user, dropping / Dropping a user
• CQL commands
  • about / Other CQL commands
  • USE / USE
  • TRUNCATE / TRUNCATE
  • LIST USERS / LIST USERS
  • LIST PERMISSIONS / LIST PERMISSIONS
• CQL driver library
  • URL, for obtaining / Writing code
• CqlInputFormat
  • about / CqlOutputFormat and CqlInputFormat
• CqlOutputFormat
  • about / CqlOutputFormat and CqlInputFormat
• CQL shell commands
  • about / CQL shell commands
  • DESCRIBE / DESCRIBE
  • TRACING / TRACING
  • CONSISTENCY / CONSISTENCY
  • COPY / COPY
  • CAPTURE / CAPTURE
  • ASSUME / ASSUME
  • SOURCE / SOURCE
  • SHOW / SHOW
  • EXIT / EXIT
• CQL type
  • ascii / Data types
  • bigint / Data types
  • blob / Data types
  • boolean / Data types
  • counter / Data types
  • decimal / Data types
  • double / Data types
  • float / Data types
  • inet / Data types
  • int / Data types
  • list / Data types
  • map / Data types
  • set / Data types
  • text / Data types
  • timestamp / Data types
  • timeuuid / Data types
  • tuple / Data types
  • uuid / Data types
  • varchar / Data types
  • varint / Data types
• custom type
  • altering / Altering a custom type
  • dropping / Dropping a custom type
• Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) / Table properties

D

• data
  • restoring, Cassandra bulk loader used / Using the Cassandra bulk loader to restore the data
• data, 1000 genome projects
  • URL / Using Hadoop
• data-store mechanisms
  • reference link / Understanding the architecture of Cassandra
• database schema, stress testing / Database schema
• data distribution, stress testing
  • about / Data distribution
  • size / Data distribution
  • population / Data distribution
  • cluster / Data distribution
• data files
  • about / Data files
• data management, HDFS
  • about / Data management
  • NameNode / NameNode
  • DataNodes / DataNodes
• data modeling
  • about / Modeling data
• DataNodes
  • about / DataNodes
• DataStax
  • URL / DataStax OpsCenter
• DataStax Enterprise editions
  • reference link / Hadoop and Cassandra
• DataStax OpsCenter
  • about / DataStax OpsCenter
  • features / The OpsCenter features
  • installing / Installing OpsCenter and an agent
  • prerequisites / Prerequisites
  • installing, from tarball / Installing OpsCenter from tarball
• Datastax OpsCenter
  • large clusters, managing / DataStax OpsCenter – managing large clusters
• data type
  • modifying, of column / Changing the data type
  • creating / Creating a data type
• data types
  • about / Data types
  • primary index / The primary index
• Debian system
  • Oracle Java 7, installing for / Debian and Ubuntu systems
• decommission command / decommission
• denormalization
  • about / A brief introduction to a data model
  • URL / A brief introduction to a data model
• DESCRIBE command
  • about / DESCRIBE
• disk choice
  • considerations / Hard disk capacity
• disk operations
  • considerations / Hard disk capacity
• distributed database
  • about / A distributed database
• drain command / drain
• Druid
  • URL / Integration with other analytical tools

E

• EC2 users / Listen, broadcast, and RPC addresses
• EC2MultiRegionSnitch / EC2MultiRegionSnitch
• EC2Snitch / EC2Snitch
• Elastic Block Storage (EBS) / Disk performance
• Elastic Block Store (EBS) / Hard disk capacity
• eventual consitent (BASE system)
  • about / The significance of the CAP theorem
  • URL / The significance of the CAP theorem
• EXIT command
  • about / EXIT
• expiring cell
  • about / The expiring cell
• expiring columns
  • considerations / The expiring cell
• extract, transform, and load (ETL) / Using Hadoop

F

• failure detection
  • about / Failure detection
  • and gossip protocol / Gossip and failure detection
• frozen, Jira ticket
  • URL / Creating a table
• fsync() function
  • reference link / commitlog_sync
• fully-qualified table name / USE

G

• garbage collection / Garbage collection
• Garbage Collections (GC) / High CPU usage
• Garbage First Garbage Collector (G1 GC)
  • URL / Garbage collection
• GC logging
  • Java options, enabling for / Enabling Java options for GC logging
• gist
  • URL / Read queries
• Google File System (GFS)
  • URL / Introduction to Hadoop
• Google MapReduce
  • URL / Introduction to Hadoop
• Gossiper module / Gossip
• GossipingPropertyFileSnitch / GossipingPropertyFileSnitch
• gossip protocol
  • about / Gossip
  • and failure detection / Gossip and failure detection
• granting permission
  • about / The granting permission
  • syntax / The granting permission
  • permission, revoking by REVOKE / Revoking permission using REVOKE
  • data, inserting / Inserting data
  • lightweight transactions / Lightweight transactions
  • row, updating / Updating a row
  • row, deleting / Deleting a row
  • BATCH statement, executing / Executing the BATCH statement

H

• Hadoop
  • using / Using Hadoop
  • and Cassandra / Hadoop and Cassandra
  • reference link, for tutorial / Hadoop and Cassandra
  • about / Introduction to Hadoop
  • reliablity of data, and process / Reliability of data and processes in Hadoop
  • installation, testing / Testing the installation
  • Cassandra, preparing for / Preparing Cassandra for Hadoop
  • working / Cassandra and Hadoop in action
  • integrating, with Pig / Integration with Pig
  • integrating, with analytical tools / Integration with other analytical tools
• Hadoop, in Cassandra cluster
  • about / Hadoop in a Cassandra cluster
• Hadoop Distributed File System
  • HDFS / Introduction to Hadoop
• hard disk capacity
  • about / Hard disk capacity
  • RAM / RAM
  • nodes / Is node a server?
  • machine / Is node a server?
  • network / Network
• hard link / Backup and restoration
• HDFS
  • about / HDFS
  • drawbacks / HDFS
• help
  • obtaining, from mailing list / Getting help from the mailing list
• high availability
  • about / High availability
• hinted hand off / Write in action
• hinted handoff
  • about / Hinted handoff
• horizontal scaling
  • about / Problems in the RDBMS world
  / Scaling horizontally and vertically

I

• incremental backup / Backup and restoration
• index
  • creating / Creating an index
  • considerations / Creating an index
  • dropping / Dropping an index
• index, on collections data types
  • URL, for issues / Modeling data
• index files
  • about / Index files
• info command / info
• Initial token
  • versus Num tokens / num_tokens versus initial_token
  • about / initial_token
• Input key-val pairs
  • about / Hadoop MapReduce

J

• Java application
  • URL, for downloading / Writing code
• Java Development Kit (JDK) / Installing Cassandra locally
• Java heap / Java heap
• Java Native Access (JNA) library
  • about / The required software
  • installing / Installing the Java Native Access library
• Java options
  • enabling, for GC logging / Enabling Java options for GC logging
• Java Runtime Environment (JRE) / Installing Oracle Java 7
• JConsole
  • used, for accessing MBeans / Accessing MBeans using JConsole
• jemalloc
  • reference link / Cache settings
• JEMallocAllocator / Cache settings
• JMX MBeans, Cassandra
  • org.apache.cassandra.net / Cassandra's JMX interface
• JMX MBeans packages, Cassandra
  • about / Cassandra's JMX interface
  • org.apache.cassandra.internal / Cassandra's JMX interface
  • org.apache.cassandra.db / Cassandra's JMX interface
  • org.apache.cassandra.request / Cassandra's JMX interface
  • org.apache.cassandra.metrics / Cassandra's JMX interface
• JobTracker
  • about / JobTracker
• jps / Testing the installation
• JVM, tweaking
  • about / Tweaking JVM
  • Java heap / Java heap
  • garbage collection / Garbage collection
• JVM options
  • about / Other JVM options
  • Compressed Ordinary Object Pointers / Other JVM options
  • Enable JNA / Other JVM options

K

• key cache / Key cache
• key caching / Table properties
• keys, types
  • primary / A brief introduction to a data model
  • composite / A brief introduction to a data model
  • partition / A brief introduction to a data model
  • clustering / A brief introduction to a data model
  • composite partition / A brief introduction to a data model
• keyspace
  • about / A brief introduction to a data model, Understanding the architecture of Cassandra, The Cassandra data model, Creating a keyspace
  • creating / Creating a keyspace
  • altering / Altering a keyspace
• keyspaces
  • about / Keyspaces

L

• large clusters
  • managing, Datastax OpsCenter used / DataStax OpsCenter – managing large clusters
• lightweight transactions
  • about / Lightweight transactions
• limits.conf
  • reference link / Optimizing user limits
• LIST PERMISSIONS command
  • about / LIST PERMISSIONS
• lists
  • about / Lists
• LIST USERS command
  • about / LIST USERS
• load balancing
  • about / Load balancing
• local Hadoop
  • setting up / Setting up local Hadoop
• log structured merge (LSM) / How Cassandra works
• LSM tree
  • about / LSM tree

M

• machine
  • about / Is node a server?
• machine-generated data
  • URL / Using Hadoop
• mailing list
  • help, obtaining from / Getting help from the mailing list
• Managed Beans (MBeans) / Cassandra's JMX interface
• MapReduce
  • about / Hadoop MapReduce
  • JobTracker / JobTracker
  • TaskTracker / TaskTracker
• maps
  • about / Maps
• MBeans
  • accessing, with JConsole / Accessing MBeans using JConsole
• memory mapped (mmap) / commitlog_total_space_in_mb
• MemTable
  • about / How Cassandra works, MemTable
• Merkle tree
  • about / Merkle tree
  • URL / Merkle tree
• message handshake / Gossip
• messaging service
  • about / The messaging service
• mobile users
  • data, references / Using Hadoop
• monitoring, with nodetool
  • about / Monitoring with nodetool
• move command / move
• multiple data centers
  • about / Multiple data centers
• Mumur3 partitioner / The Mumur3 partitioner

N

• Nagios
  • about / Nagios – monitoring and notification
  • URL / Nagios – monitoring and notification
  • installing / Installing Nagios
  • prerequisites / Prerequisites
  • installation, preparing / Preparation
  • installing, from tarball / Installing Nagios
  • setting up, as service / Setting up Nagios as a service
• Nagios Cassandra Monitor
  • URL / Nagios plugins for Cassandra
• Nagios plugin directory
  • reference link / Nagios plugins
• Nagios plugin project, GitHub
  • URL / Nagios plugins
• Nagios plugins
  • installing / Installing Nagios plugins
  • URL, for downloading / Installing Nagios plugins
  • about / Nagios plugins
  • CPU and disk space, monitoring / Setting up things to monitor
  • JMX monitor, setting up / Setting up things to monitor
  • configuration, updating / Setting up things to monitor, Monitoring and notification using Nagios
• Nagios plugins for Cassandra
  • about / Nagios plugins for Cassandra
  • URL, for downloading / Nagios plugins for Cassandra
  • remote plugins, executing via NRPE plugin / Executing remote plugins via the NRPE plugin
  • NRPE, installing on host machines / Installing NRPE on host machines
  • NRPE, installing on Nagios machine / Installing the NRPE plugin on a Nagios machine
• NameNode
  • about / NameNode
• narrow column family
  • about / The column family
• NativeAllocator / Cache settings
• netstats command / netstats
• network
  • about / Network
• Network Time Protocol (NTP) / Clock synchronization
• network time protocol daemon (NTPD)
  • about / The Cassandra data model
• NetworkTopologyStrategy
  • about / NetworkTopologyStrategy, NetworkTopologyStrategy
  • multiple data center setups / Multiple data center setups
• node
  • about / A distributed database
  • replacing / Replacing a node
• nodes
  • about / Is node a server?
• nodes, adding to cluster
  • about / Adding nodes to a cluster
  • new nodes, adding in vnode-enabled clusters / Adding new nodes in vnode-enabled clusters
  • new node, adding to cluster without vnodes / Adding a new node to a cluster without vnodes
• nodes, removing from cluster
  • about / Removing nodes from a cluster
  • live node, removing / Removing a live node
  • dead node, removing / Removing a dead node
• nodetool utility
  • about / Cassandra's nodetool utility
  • references / snapshot
• nodetool utility, commands
  • cfstats / cfstats
  • netstats / netstats
  • status / status
  • ring / ring and describering
  • describing / ring and describering
  • tpstats / tpstats
  • compactionstats / compactionstats
  • info / info
• NoSQL
  • about / Enter NoSQL
  • references / Enter NoSQL
• NoSQL database comparison
  • reference link / A distributed database
• notorious R + W > N inequality / The notorious R + W > N inequality
• NTP
  • URL / The counter column (cell)
• Num tokens
  • versus Initial token / num_tokens versus initial_token
  • about / num_tokens

O

• Object Relational Mappers (ORMs) / Problems in the RDBMS world
• OLTP
  • URL / Problems in the RDBMS world
• OpsCenter
  • monitoring with / Monitoring and administrating with OpsCenter
  • administrating with / Monitoring and administrating with OpsCenter
  • features / Other features of OpsCenter
• OpsCenter agent
  • setting up / Setting up an OpsCenter agent
• OpsCenter Community Edition
  • URL, for download options / Installing OpsCenter from tarball
• options, keyspace
  • SimpleStrategy / SimpleStrategy
  • NetworkTopologyStrategy / NetworkTopologyStrategy
• Oracle Java 7
  • installing / Installing Oracle Java 7
  • installing, for RHEL / RHEL and CentOS systems
  • installing, for CentOS / RHEL and CentOS systems
  • installing, for Debian system / Debian and Ubuntu systems
  • installing, for Ubuntu system / Debian and Ubuntu systems
• Oracle Java website
  • URL, for installing Java / Installing Cassandra locally
• ordinary object pointers (OOPs) / Other JVM options
• Out-Of-Memory (OOM) / Swapping memory

P

• pages / Swapping memory
• paging
  • about / Swapping memory
  • reference link / Swapping memory
• partition-tolerance, CAP theorem / Partition-tolerance
• partitioner
  • about / Partitioner
  • Murmur3Partitioner / Partitioner
  • RandomPartitioner / Partitioner
  • ByteOrderPartitioner / Partitioner
• partitioners
  • examples / The primary index
  • about / Partitioners
  • Random / The Random partitioner
  • Byte-ordered / The Byte-ordered partitioner
  • Murmur3 / The Mumur3 partitioner
• partition key
  • about / A brief introduction to a data model
• Paxos
  • URL / Lightweight transactions
• performance tuning
  • about / Performance tuning
  • write performance / Write performance
  • read performance / Read performance
  • cassandra.yaml / More tuning via cassandra.yaml
  • JVM, tweaking / Tweaking JVM
  • network / Network
• permission types
  • ALL / The granting permission
  • SELECT / The granting permission
  • CREATE / The granting permission
  • MODIFY / The granting permission
  • DROP / The granting permission
• Pig
  • Hadoop, integrating with / Integration with Pig
  • about / Integration with Pig
  • installing / Installing Pig
  • integrating, with Cassandra / Integrating Pig and Cassandra
  • URL, for official tutorial / Integrating Pig and Cassandra
• Pig Latin / Integration with Pig
• posts table / Modeling data
• prerequisites, DataStax OpsCenter
  • Python 2.6+ / Prerequisites
  • sysstat / Prerequisites
  • OpenSSL / Prerequisites
• prerequisites, Nagios
  • PHP / Prerequisites
  • httpd / Prerequisites
  • GCC compiler / Prerequisites
  • GD graphics library / Prerequisites
• primary index
  • about / The primary index
• primary key
  • about / A brief introduction to a data model, The primary index
• primary range / repair
• properties, COMPACTION keyword
  • enabled / Table properties
  • tombstone_threshold / Table properties
  • tombstone_compaction_interval / Table properties
  • unchecked_tombstone_compaction / Table properties
  • min_sstable_size / Table properties
  • min_threshold / Table properties
  • max_threshold / Table properties
  • bucket_high / Table properties
  • bucket_low / Table properties
  • cold_reads_to_omit / Table properties
  • sstable_size_in_mb / Table properties
  • Compression / Table properties
• PropertyFileSnitch / PropertyFileSnitch

R

• RackInferringSnitch / RackInferringSnitch
• Rackspace
  • about / CPU
• RAID 0
  • URL / Hard disk capacity
• RAM
  • about / RAM
• Random partitioner / The Random partitioner
• RDBMS
  • about / Problems in the RDBMS world
  • issues / Problems in the RDBMS world
• readahead (RA) / Disk readahead
• read performance
  • about / Read performance
  • right compaction strategy, selecting / Choosing the right compaction strategy
  • size-tiered compaction strategy / Size-tiered compaction strategy
  • leveled compaction / Leveled compaction
  • row cache / Row cache
  • key cache / Key cache
  • cache settings / Cache settings
  • compression, enabling / Enabling compression
  • bloom filter, tuning / Tuning the bloom filter
• read queries, stress testing
  • about / Read queries
• read repair
  • about / Read repair and anti-entropy
• rebalancing
  • about / Virtual nodes
• removenode command / removenode
• repair command / repair
• replcation
  • notorious R + W > N inequality / The notorious R + W > N inequality
• replica placement strategies
  • about / Replica placement strategies
• replication
  • about / Replication, Replication
• replication factor (RF) / Virtual nodes
• requirements, evaluating
  • about / Evaluating requirements
  • hard disk capacity / Hard disk capacity
• restoration
  • about / Backup and restoration
• REVOKE permission
  • about / Revoking permission using REVOKE
  • syntax / Revoking permission using REVOKE
• RHEL
  • Oracle Java 7, installing for / RHEL and CentOS systems
• ring command / ring and describering
• ring representation
  • about / Ring representation
  • virtual nodes / Virtual nodes
• row / Understanding the architecture of Cassandra
  • updating / Updating a row
  • deleting / Deleting a row
• row cache / Row cache
• row caching / Table properties
• row key
  • about / A brief introduction to a data model, The column family

S

• scaling
  • about / Scaling
  • nodes, adding to cluster / Adding nodes to a cluster
  • nodes, removing from cluster / Removing nodes from a cluster
• scenarios, repair command
  • periodic / repair
  • outage / repair
• SCSI / Hard disk capacity
• Secure Shell (SSH) tunnel
  • reference link / Accessing MBeans using JConsole
• seed node / Gossip
  • about / The seed node
  • listen address / Listen, broadcast, and RPC addresses
  • broadcast address / Listen, broadcast, and RPC addresses
  • RPC address / Listen, broadcast, and RPC addresses
• service
  • Nagios, setting up as / Setting up Nagios as a service
• sets
  • about / Sets
• sharding
  • about / Problems in the RDBMS world
  • URL / Problems in the RDBMS world
• Shark
  • URL / Integration with other analytical tools
• SHOW command
  • about / SHOW
• SimpleSnitch / SimpleSnitch
• SimpleStrategy
  • about / SimpleStrategy
  / SimpleStrategy
• single point of failure (SPOF) / Gossip, Cassandra filesystem
• snapshot command / snapshot
• SnapTree
  • URL / MemTable
  • about / MemTable
• snitches
  • about / Snitches
  • SimpleSnitch / SimpleSnitch
  • PropertyFileSnitch / PropertyFileSnitch
  • RackInferringSnitch / RackInferringSnitch
  • EC2Snitch / EC2Snitch
  • EC2MultiRegionSnitch / EC2MultiRegionSnitch
• snitches, types
  • SimpleSnitch / Read in action
  • PropertyFileSnitch / Read in action
  • GossipingPropertyFileSnitch / Read in action
  • RackInferringSnitch / Read in action
  • EC2Snitch / Read in action
  • EC2MultiRegionSnitch / Read in action
  • DynamicSnitch / Read in action
• Solid State Drives (SSDs) / Hard disk capacity
• SortedMap interface
  • reference link / The primary index
• SOURCE command
  • about / SOURCE
• Spark-Cassandra-connector project
  • URL / Integration with other analytical tools
• speculative_retry, settings
  • ALWAYS / Table properties
  • Xpercentile / Table properties
  • Xms / Table properties
  • NONE / Table properties
• SSTable
  • about / How Cassandra works, SSTable
  • bloom filter / The bloom filter
  • index files / Index files
  • data files / Data files
• Staged Event Driven Architecture (SEDA)
  • URL / Cassandra's JMX interface
• standard edition (SE) / Cassandra's JMX interface
• static column family
  • creating / The column family
  • storing / The column family
• stress testing
  • about / Stress testing
  • database schema / Database schema
  • data distribution / Data distribution
  • write pattern / Write pattern
  • read queries / Read queries
• super column
  • about / The expiring cell
• syn / Gossip
• system configurations
  • about / System configurations
  • user limits, optimizing / Optimizing user limits
  • memory, swapping / Swapping memory
  • clock synchronization / Clock synchronization
  • disk readahead / Disk readahead

T

• table
  • about / The Cassandra data model, The column family
  • creating / Creating a table
  • properties / Table properties
  • altering / Altering a table
  • column, adding / Adding a column
  • column, renaming / Renaming a column
  • data type, modifying of column / Changing the data type
  • column, dropping / Dropping a column
  • properties, updating / Updating the table properties
  • dropping / Dropping a table
• tables
  • about / A brief introduction to a data model
  • blogs / Modeling data
  • posts / Modeling data
  • comments / Modeling data
  • tags / Modeling data
  • counters / Modeling data
• tags table / Modeling data
• tarball
  • Cassandra, installing from / Installing from a tarball
  • OpsCenter, installing from / Installing OpsCenter from tarball
  • Nagios, installing from / Installing Nagios
• TaskTracker
  • about / TaskTracker
• time to live (TTL)
  • about / The Cassandra data model
• token
  • about / The primary index
• tombstones
  • about / Tombstones
• tpstats command / tpstats
• TRACING command
  • about / TRACING
• triggers
  • creating / Creating triggers
  • dropping / Dropping a trigger
• troubleshooting
  • about / Troubleshooting
  • high CPU usage / High CPU usage
  • high memory usage / High memory usage
  • hotspots / Hotspots
  • erratic behavior, of Open JDK / Open JDK's erratic behavior
  • disk performance / Disk performance
  • slow snapshot / Slow snapshots
• TRUNCATE command
  • about / TRUNCATE
• Twitter Storm
  • URL / Integration with other analytical tools

U

• Ubuntu system
  • Oracle Java 7, installing for / Debian and Ubuntu systems
• upgradesstable command / upgradesstable
• usage share, of operating systems
  • reference link / System configurations
• USE command
  • about / USE
• user
  • creating / Creating a user
  • altering / Altering a user
  • dropping / Dropping a user
• User Defined Type (UDT) / Creating a data type

V

• virtual nodes (vnodes)
  • about / Virtual nodes
• VisualVM
  • URL / Accessing MBeans using JConsole

W

• wide row column family
  • about / The column family
• write pattern, stress testing
  • about / Write pattern
  • partitions / Write pattern
  • pervisit / Write pattern
  • perbatch / Write pattern
  • batchtype / Write pattern
• write performance / Write performance

X

• XFS filesystem
  • URL / Hard disk capacity

Y

• YAML
  • URL, for example / Read queries
• Yet Another Resource Negotiator (YARN)
  • about / Setting up local Hadoop
  • URL / Setting up local Hadoop