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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.
Topics about the Cassandra database.
Vital information about successfully deploying a Cassandra cluster.
Various installation methods.
Configuration topics.
The cassandra.yaml file is the main configuration file for Cassandra.
Set environment variables (cassandra.in.sh).
Topics for securing Cassandra.
Using the cassandra.yaml file to configure gossip.
Analyzing the heap dump file can help troubleshoot memory problems.
Topics about configuring virtual nodes.
Steps and recommendations for enabling virtual nodes (vnodes) on a new cluster.
Steps and recommendations for enabling virtual nodes (vnodes) on an existing production cluster.
Steps for configuring Cassandra for multiple network interfaces or when using different regions in cloud implementations.
Cassandra logging functionality using Simple Logging Facade for Java (SLF4J) with a logback backend.
Cassandra provides commit log archiving and point-in-time recovery.
Change Data Capture (CDC) logging captures changes to data.
If not using virtual nodes (vnodes), you must calculate tokens for your cluster.
Cassandra support for integrating Hadoop with Cassandra.
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.x.
