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DataStax Enterprise 4.6
EOSL
About DataStax Enterprise
Upgrading
Installing
Installer - GUI/Text mode
Installer - unattended
Other install methods
Using the Yum repository
Using the APT repository
Using the binary tarball
On cloud providers
Initializing a DSE cluster on EC2
Installing and deploying a DataStax Enterprise cluster in CenturyLink Cloud
Installing and deploying a DataStax Enterprise cluster using Google Compute Engine
Installing and deploying a DataStax Enterprise cluster using Microsoft Azure
Installing EPEL on RHEL OS 5.x
Uninstalling DataStax Enterprise 4.6
Managing security
Security management
Authenticating with Kerberos
Kerberos guidelines
AES-256 support
Setting up the environment for Kerberos
Adding Kerberos service principals for each node in a cluster
Configuring DataStax Enterprise for Kerberos authentication
Creating users
Enabling Kerberos security
Using cqlsh with Kerberos security
Using Kerberos authentication with Sqoop
Authenticating a cluster with LDAP
Enabling LDAP authentication
Creating LDAP users
Client-to-node encryption
Node-to-node encryption
Spark SSL encryption
Server certificates
Running cqlsh
Transparent data encryption
Encrypting data
Configuring encryption options
Migrating encrypted tables
Data auditing
Configuring audit logging to a log4j log file
Configuring audit logging to a Cassandra table
Configuring auditing for DSE Search
Internal authentication
Configuring internal authentication and authorization
Changing the default superuser
Enable internal security without downtime
cqlsh login
Managing object permissions
Configuring keyspace replication
Configuring firewall ports
Using the in-memory option
DSE Analytics
Introduction to DSE Analytics
Analyzing data using Spark
Spark introduction
Setting Cassandra-specific properties
Spark configuration
Starting Spark
Portfolio Manager demo using Spark
Using Spark SQL to query data
Using Shark to query data
Spark user interface
Accessing Cassandra from Spark
Importing a Text File into a CQL Table
Getting started with Spark Streaming
Getting started with PySpark
Getting started with the Spark Cassandra Connector Java API
Spark security
Spark supported types
Databricks ODBC driver for Apache Shark
Running the Weather Sensor demo
Analyzing data using external Hadoop systems (BYOH)
BYOH Introduction
BYOH Prerequisites and installation
Configuring an external Hadoop system
Starting up the BYOH data center
Using BYOH
Analyzing data using DSE Hadoop
DSE Hadoop introduction
Using the job tracker node
About the Cassandra File System
Using the cfs-archive to store huge files
Using Hive with DSE Hadoop
ODBC driver for Hive
Using Mahout
Using Pig
DSE Search features
Getting Started with Solr
Supported and unsupported features
Defining key Solr terms
DSE vs. Open source
Architecture
Configuration
DSE Search configuration file (solrconfig.xml)
Starting and stopping DSE Search
Segregating workloads
Configuring DSE Search
Indexing
Adding and viewing index resources
Checking indexing status
Creating a schema and data modeling
Querying
Using SolrJ and other Solr clients
Using CQL Solr queries
Using the Solr HTTP API
Inserting/updating data
Querying a CQL collection set
Deleting by id
Deleting by query
Joining cores
Querying multiple tables
Using eDisMax
Operations
Adding, decommissioning, repairing a node
Enabling the disk failure policy
Restricted query routing
Shuffling shards to balance the load
Managing the location of Solr data
Deleting Solr data
Viewing Solr core status
Solr log messages
Changing the Solr connector port
Securing a Solr cluster
Fast repair
Excluding hosts from Solr-distributed queries
Expiring a DSE Search column
Changing the HTTP interface to Apache JServe Protocol
Shard transport options for DSE Search/Solr communications
Performance tuning
Using metrics MBeans
Using table compression
Configuring the update handler and autoSoftCommit
Parallelizing large Cassandra row reads
Changing the stack size and memtable space
Managing the consistency level
Configuring the available indexing threads
Increasing performance
Changing the replication factor
Configuring re-indexing
Managing caching
Tuning index size and range query speed
Capacity planning
Update request processor and field transformer
Custom URP example
Field input/output transformer example
FIT reference implementation
Interface for custom field types
Tutorial: Basics
Create Cassandra table
Import data
Generate resources automatically
Explore the Solr Admin
Search using the Solr Admin
Search using CQL
Tutorial: Advanced
Faceted search
Solr HTTP API
Create a CQL collection
Create a custom schema
Check the request handler
Upload custom resources
Search the dynamic field
Troubleshooting
Handling inconsistencies in query results
Tracing Solr HTTP requests
Using Solr MBeans
Using the ShardRouter Mbean
Wikipedia demo
Running the demo on a secure cluster
Migrating data
Migrating data using Sqoop
About Sqoop
Running the Sqoop demo
Importing SQL to a CQL table or CFS
Importing data into a CQL list or set
Importing data into a CQL map
Importing joined tables
Exporting CQL data to SQL
Exporting selected CQL data to SQL
Exporting data from CQL collections
Automating a Sqoop operation
Sqoop reference
Migrating data using other methods
Deploying
Production deployment planning
Configuring replication
Mixing workloads
Single data center deployment per workload type
Multiple data center deployment per workload type
Single-token architecture deployment
Calculating tokens
Expanding an AMI cluster
DataStax Management Services
Performance Service
About the Performance Service
Configuring Performance Service replication strategy
Enabling the Performance Service
Diagnostic table references
Capacity Service
Repair Service
DataStax Enterprise tools
The dse commands
The dsetool
The cfs-stress tool
Pre-flight check and yaml_diff tools
Using the Cassandra bulk loader in a secure environment
Common tasks
Configuration (dse.yaml)
Starting and stopping DataStax Enterprise
Starting as a service
Starting as a stand-alone process
Stopping a node
Verify DSE running
File locations: Installer-Services and Package
File locations: Installer-No Services and Tarball
Troubleshooting
Cassandra Log4j appender
Log4j search demo
Installing glibc on Oracle Linux
Release Notes
Command commons
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Common tasks
Common tasks
Common tasks for using DataStax Enterprise.
DataStax Enterprise configuration file (dse.yaml)
The configuration file for DataStax Enterprise.
Starting and stopping DataStax Enterprise
You can start and stop DataStax Enterprise as a service or stand-alone process.
Default file locations for Installer-Services and Package installations
Locations when installing DataStax Enterprise from the DataStax Installer with Services option or from a package installation.
Default file locations for Installer-No Services and tarball installations
Locations when installing from the DataStax All-in-One Installer with No Services selected or tarball installations.
Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting examples are useful to discover and resolve problems with DSE. Also check the Cassandra troubleshooting documentation.
Cassandra Log4j appender solutions
DataStax Enterprise allows you to stream your web and application log information into a database cluster via Apache log4j.
Installing glibc on Oracle Linux 6.x and later
To install DSE on Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.x and later, install the 32-bit versions of the glibc libraries.
Common tasks
Configuration (dse.yaml)
Starting and stopping DataStax Enterprise
File locations: Installer-Services and Package
File locations: Installer-No Services and Tarball
Troubleshooting
Cassandra Log4j appender
Installing glibc on Oracle Linux
