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Real-time Analytics with Storm and Cassandra

By : Shilpi Saxena
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Real-time Analytics with Storm and Cassandra

By: Shilpi Saxena

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Real-time Analytics with Storm and Cassandra
Shilpi Saxena
Mar, 2015 | 220 pages
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Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Real-time Analytics with Storm and Cassandra
Real-time Analytics with Storm and Cassandra
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Let's Understand Storm
Let's Understand Storm
Distributed computing problems
Solutions for complex distributed use cases
A high-level view of various components of Storm
Delving into the internals of Storm
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2
Getting Started with Your First Topology
Getting Started with Your First Topology
Prerequisites for setting up Storm
Components of a Storm topology
Executing a sample Storm topology – local mode
Executing the topology in the distributed mode
Executing the topology from Command Prompt
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3
Understanding Storm Internals by Examples
Understanding Storm Internals by Examples
Customizing Storm spouts
Anchoring and acking
Stream groupings
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4
Storm in a Clustered Mode
Storm in a Clustered Mode
The Storm cluster setup
Zookeeper configurations
Storm configurations
Storm monitoring tools
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5
Storm High Availability and Failover
Storm High Availability and Failover
An overview of RabbitMQ
Installing the RabbitMQ cluster
Integrating Storm with RabbitMQ
Building high availability of components
The Storm isolation scheduler
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6
Adding NoSQL Persistence to Storm
Adding NoSQL Persistence to Storm
The advantages of Cassandra
Columnar database fundamentals
Setting up the Cassandra cluster
Multiple data centers
Introduction to CQLSH
Introduction to CLI
Using different client APIs to access Cassandra
Storm topology wired to the Cassandra store
The best practices for Storm/Cassandra applications
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7
Cassandra Partitioning, High Availability, and Consistency
Cassandra Partitioning, High Availability, and Consistency
Consistent hashing
Replication in Cassandra and strategies
Cassandra consistency
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8
Cassandra Management and Maintenance
Cassandra Management and Maintenance
Cassandra – gossip protocol
Cassandra cluster scaling – adding a new node
Cassandra cluster – replacing a dead node
The replication factor
The nodetool commands
Cassandra fault tolerance
Cassandra monitoring systems
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9
Storm Management and Maintenance
Storm Management and Maintenance
Scaling the Storm cluster – adding new supervisor nodes
Scaling the Storm cluster and rebalancing the topology
Setting up workers and parallelism to enhance processing
Storm troubleshooting
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10
Advance Concepts in Storm
Advance Concepts in Storm
Building a Trident topology
Understanding the Trident API
Examples and illustrations
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11
Distributed Cache and CEP with Storm
Distributed Cache and CEP with Storm
The need for distributed caching in Storm
Introduction to memcached
Introduction to the complex event processing engine
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Quiz Answers
Quiz Answers
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Index
Index

Summary

In this chapter, you got a detailed understanding of the Storm and Zookeeper configurations. We explored and walked you through the Storm UI and its attributes. Having done the cluster setup, we briefly touched upon various monitoring tools available for operational production support in Storm.

In the next chapter, we will get you introduced to RabbitMQ and its integration with Storm.

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