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Documentation for developers and administrators on configuring, and using the features and capabilities of Apache Cassandra.
An overview of new features in Apache Cassandra.
Cassandra Query Language (CQL) is the default and primary interface into the Cassandra DBMS.
Important topics for understanding Cassandra.
Vital information about successfully deploying a Cassandra cluster.
Various installation methods.
Topics for deploying a cluster.
Topics for securing Cassandra.
Topics about the Cassandra database.
A description about Cassandra's storage structure and engine.
Cassandra provides fine-grained control of table storage on disk.
Understanding how Casssandra stores data.
A brief description of the write path of an update.
How Cassandra deletes data and why deleted data can reappear.
How hinted handoff works and how it optimizes the cluster.
How reads work and factors affecting them.
How Cassandra combines results from the active memtable and potentially mutliple SSTables to satisfy a read.
Factors for increasing the data handling capacity per node.
A brief description about reading from a partition.
A brief description about how write patterns affect reads.
A brief description and illustration about how the row cache affects reads.
A brief description about transactions and concurrency control.
Topics about how up-to-date and synchronized a row of data is on all replicas.
Configuration topics.
Operation topics.
Cassandra backs up data by taking a snapshot of all on-disk data files (SSTable files) stored in the data directory.
Topics for Cassandra tools.
Reference topics.
Solutions for migrating from other databases.
How to find the Apache Cassandra release notes.
