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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.
Cassandra provides various security features to the open source community.
Topics about internal authentication.
Topics about internal authorization.
Topics about JMX authentication and authorization.
Topics for using SSL in Cassandra.
Cassandra can encrypt both internode and client-to-server communications using SSL.
Installing the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files.
Steps to generate SSL certificates for client-to-node encryption or node-to-node encryption in a development environment.
Steps to generate SSL certificates for client-to-node encryption or node-to-node encryption using a self-signed Certificate Authority (CA) in a production environment.
Node-to-node (internode) encryption protects data transferred between nodes in a cluster, including gossip communications, using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer).
Client-to-node encryption protects data in flight from client machines to a database cluster using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer).
Using a cqlshrc file with SSL encryption using a self-signed CA.
Using nodetool with SSL encryption.
Using jconsole with SSL encryption.
Which ports to open when nodes are protected by a firewall.
Using the cassandra.yaml file to configure gossip.
Analyzing the heap dump file can help troubleshoot memory problems.
Topics about configuring virtual nodes.
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.
