Mastering Apache Cassandra - Second Edition

Nishant Neeraj

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Jahr: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781784392611
• Thema: Informatik
• Thema: Datenmodellierung- & design

Mastering Apache Cassandra Second Edition

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Table of Contents

Mastering Apache Cassandra Second Edition

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Quick Start

Introduction to Cassandra

A distributed database

High availability

Replication

Multiple data centers

A brief introduction to a data model

Installing Cassandra locally

Cassandra in action

Modeling data

Writing code

Setting up

Inserting records

Retrieving data

Writing your application

Getting the connection

Executing queries

Object mapping

Summary

2. Cassandra Architecture

Problems in the RDBMS world

Enter NoSQL

The CAP theorem

Consistency

Availability

Partition-tolerance

The significance of the CAP theorem

Cassandra

Understanding the architecture of Cassandra

Ring representation

Virtual nodes

How Cassandra works

Write in action

Read in action

The components of Cassandra

The messaging service

Gossip

Failure detection

Gossip and failure detection

Partitioner

Replication

The notorious R + W > N inequality

LSM tree

Commit log

MemTable

SSTable

The bloom filter

Index files

Data files

Compaction

Tombstones

Hinted handoff

Read repair and anti-entropy

Merkle tree

Summary

3. Effective CQL

The Cassandra data model

The counter column (cell)

The expiring cell

The column family

Keyspaces

Data types

The primary index

CQL3

Creating a keyspace

SimpleStrategy

NetworkTopologyStrategy

Altering a keyspace

Creating a table

Table properties

Altering a table

Adding a column

Renaming a column

Changing the data type

Dropping a column

Updating the table properties

Dropping a table

Creating an index

Dropping an index

Creating a data type

Altering a custom type

Dropping a custom type

Creating triggers

Dropping a trigger

Creating a user

Altering a user

Dropping a user

The granting permission

Revoking permission using REVOKE

Inserting data

Collections in CQL

Lists

Sets

Maps

Lightweight transactions

Updating a row

Deleting a row

Executing the BATCH statement

Other CQL commands

USE

TRUNCATE

LIST USERS

LIST PERMISSIONS

CQL shell commands

DESCRIBE

TRACING

CONSISTENCY

COPY

CAPTURE

ASSUME

SOURCE

SHOW

EXIT

Summary

4. Deploying a Cluster

Evaluating requirements

Hard disk capacity

RAM

CPU

Is node a server?

Network

System configurations

Optimizing user limits

Swapping memory

Clock synchronization

Disk readahead

The required software

Installing Oracle Java 7

RHEL and CentOS systems

Debian and Ubuntu systems

Installing the Java Native Access library

Installing Cassandra

Installing from a tarball

Installing from ASFRepository for Debian or Ubuntu

Anatomy of the installation

Cassandra binaries

Configuration files

Setting up data and commitlog directories

Configuring a Cassandra cluster

The cluster name

The seed node

Listen, broadcast, and RPC addresses

num_tokens versus initial_token

num_tokens

initial_token

Partitioners

The Random partitioner

The Byte-ordered partitioner

The Mumur3 partitioner

Snitches

SimpleSnitch

PropertyFileSnitch

GossipingPropertyFileSnitch

RackInferringSnitch

EC2Snitch

EC2MultiRegionSnitch

Replica placement strategies

SimpleStrategy

NetworkTopologyStrategy

Multiple data center setups

Launching a cluster with a script

Creating a keyspace

Authorization and authentication

Summary

5. Performance Tuning

Stress testing

Database schema

Data distribution

Write pattern

Read queries

Performance tuning

Write performance

Read performance

Choosing the right compaction strategy

Size-tiered compaction strategy

Leveled compaction

Row cache

Key cache

Cache settings

Enabling compression

Tuning the bloom filter

More tuning via cassandra.yaml

commitlog_sync

column_index_size_in_kb

commitlog_total_space_in_mb

Tweaking JVM

Java heap

Garbage collection

Other JVM options

Scaling horizontally and vertically

Network

Summary

6. Managing a Cluster – Scaling, Node Repair, and Backup

Scaling

Adding nodes to a cluster

Adding new nodes in vnode-enabled clusters

Adding a new node to a cluster without vnodes

Removing nodes from a cluster

Removing a live node

Removing a dead node

Replacing a node

Backup and restoration

Using the Cassandra bulk loader to restore the data

Load balancing

DataStax OpsCenter – managing large clusters

Summary

7. Monitoring

Cassandra's JMX interface

Accessing MBeans using JConsole

Cassandra's nodetool utility

Monitoring with nodetool

cfstats

netstats

status

ring and describering

tpstats

compactionstats

info

Managing administration with nodetool

drain

decommission

removenode

move

repair

upgradesstable

snapshot

DataStax OpsCenter

The OpsCenter features

Installing OpsCenter and an agent

Prerequisites

Running a Cassandra cluster

Installing OpsCenter from tarball

Setting up an OpsCenter agent

Monitoring and administrating with OpsCenter

Other features of OpsCenter

Nagios – monitoring and notification

Installing Nagios

Prerequisites

Preparation

Installation

Installing Nagios

Configuring Apache httpd

Installing Nagios plugins

Setting up Nagios as a service

Nagios plugins

Nagios plugins for Cassandra

Executing remote plugins via the NRPE plugin

Installing NRPE on host machines

Installing the NRPE plugin on a Nagios machine

Setting up things to monitor

Monitoring and notification using Nagios

Cassandra log

Enabling Java options for GC logging

Troubleshooting

High CPU usage

High memory usage

Hotspots

Open JDK's erratic behavior

Disk performance

Slow snapshots

Getting help from the mailing list

Summary

8. Integration with Hadoop

Using Hadoop

Hadoop and Cassandra

Introduction to Hadoop

HDFS

Data management

NameNode

DataNodes

Hadoop MapReduce

JobTracker

TaskTracker

Reliability of data and processes in Hadoop

Setting up local Hadoop

Testing the installation

Cassandra with Hadoop MapReduce

Preparing Cassandra for Hadoop

ColumnFamilyInputFormat

ColumnFamilyOutputFormat

CqlOutputFormat and CqlInputFormat

ConfigHelper

Wide row support

Bulk loading

Secondary index support

Cassandra and Hadoop in action

Executing, debugging, monitoring, and looking at results

Hadoop in a Cassandra cluster

Cassandra filesystem

Integration with Pig

Installing Pig

Integrating Pig and Cassandra

Integration with other analytical tools

Summary

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