Getting started with DataStax Enterprise 5.1

DataStax Offerings provides basic information to help you choose which product best fits your requirements.

Before diving into administration tasks, you can save a lot of time when setting up and operating DataStax Enterprise (DSE) in a production environment by learning a few basics first:

The following are not administrator-specific but are presented to give you a fuller picture of the database:

The Planning and testing guide contains guidelines for capacity planning and hardware selection in production environments. Key topics include:

DataStax offers a variety of ways to set up a cluster:

For help with choosing an install type, see Which install method should I use?

DSE Advanced Security provides fine-grained user and access controls to keep applications data protected and compliant with regulatory standards like PCI, SOX, HIPAA, and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Key topics include:

Important topics for optimizing the performance of the database include:

The most commonly used operations include:

The primary tools for getting data into and out of the database are:

For other methods, see Migrating data to DataStax Enterprise.

DataStax provides the following tools to monitor clusters and view metrics:

Key topics in the Upgrade Guide include: