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Documentation for developers and administrators on installing, configuring, and using the features and capabilities of Apache Cassandra scalable open source NoSQL database.
Important topics for understanding Cassandra.
Essential information for understanding and using Cassandra.
Cassandra uses a protocol called gossip to discover location and state information about the other nodes participating in a Cassandra cluster.
How data is distributed and factors influencing replication.
A partitioner determines how data is distributed across the nodes in the cluster (including replicas).
A snitch determines which datacenters and racks nodes belong to.
Topics about the Cassandra database.
Vital information about successfully deploying a Cassandra cluster.
Various installation methods.
Configuration topics.
Topics for deploying a cluster.
Cassandra operation topics, such as node and datacenter operations, changing replication strategies, configuring compaction and compression, caching, and tuning Bloom filters.
Topics for Cassandra tools.
Release notes for the Apache Cassandra 3.0.
