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DSE 6.7 Administrator Guide

Getting started
Information about using DataStax Enterprise for Administrators.
Release notes
Release notes for DataStax Enterprise.
Installing
DataStax Enterprise 6.7 can be installed in a number of ways, depending on the purpose of the installation, the type of operating system, and the available permissions.
Configuration
Information about configuring DataStax Enterprise, such as recommended production setting, configuration files, snitch configuration, start-up parameters, heap dump settings, using virtual nodes, and more.
Initializing a cluster
Initializing a DataStax Enterprise (DSE) cluster includes configuring, and choosing how the data is divided across the nodes in the cluster.
Security
DataStax Enterprise 6.7 Security Guide.
DSE advanced functionality
Information on using DSE Analytics, DSEFS, DSE Search, DSE Graph, DSE Advanced Replication, DSE In-Memory, DSE Multi-Instance, DSE Tiered Storage and DSE Performance services.
- DSE Analytics
  DataStax Enterprise 6.7 Analytics includes integration with Apache Spark.
- DSE Search
  DSE Search allows you to quickly find data and provide a modern search experience for your users, helping you create features like product catalogs, document repositories, ad-hoc reporting engines, and more.
  - About DSE Search
    DSE Search simplifies using search applications for data stored in a database.
  - Configuring DSE Search
    DSE Search logging, search index configuration, reference information and so on.
  - Performance tuning and monitoring
    Tune DSE Search in the event of performance degradation, high memory consumption, or other problems.
    - Tuning search for maximum indexing throughput
      Tuning DSE Search for maximum indexing throughput
    - Resolving query timeouts on restarted nodes
      Steps to fix query timeouts when restarting nodes with large search indexes.
    - Table compression can optimize reads
      Configure data compression on a per-table basis to optimize performance of read-dominated tasks.
    - Parallelizing large row reads
      Configure DSE Search to parallelize the retrieval of a large number of rows to improve performance.
    - Changing the stack size and memtable space
      Change the stack size to improve performance under Tomcat.
    - Tuning index size and range query speed
      Advanced users can change the precision step of special token field types to tune index size.
    - Improving read performance
      Steps to increase DSE Search read performance.
  - DSE Search operations
    You can run DSE Search on one or more nodes. Typical operations including configuration of nodes, policies, query routing, balancing loads, and communications.
  - Solr interfaces
  - HTTP API SolrJ and other Solr clients
    Apache Solr clients work with DataStax Enterprise. DataStax has extended SolrJ to protect internal Solr communication and HTTP access using SSL.
- DSE Graph
  Documentation for developers and administrators on installing, configuring, and using the features and capabilities of DSE Graph.
- DSE Management Services
  DSE Management Services automatically handle administration and maintenance tasks and assist with overall database cluster management.
- NodeSync service
  Continuous background repair that virtually eliminates manual efforts to run repair operations in a DataStax cluster.
- DSE Advanced Replication
  Documentation for configuring and using configurable distributed data replication.
- DSE In-Memory
  DataStax Enterprise includes DSE In-Memory for storing data to and accessing data exclusively from memory.
- DSE Multi-Instance
  Documentation for running multiple DataStax Enterprise nodes on a single host machine.
- DSE Tiered Storage
  Documentation for automating smart data movement across different types of storage media.
Tools
Tools include nodetool, dse, and dsefs shell commands, dsetool, fs-stress tool, pre-flight check, and yaml_diff tools, and the sstableloader.
Operations
DataStax Enterprise operation topics, such as node and datacenter operations, changing replication strategies, configuring compaction and compression, caching, and tuning Bloom filters.
Planning
Hardware selection, estimating disk capacity, anti-patterns, cluster testing and more.

DSE Search performance tuning and monitoring

Tune DSE Search in the event of performance degradation, high memory consumption, or other problems.

Use these tuning options for DSE Search:

Tuning search for maximum indexing throughput
Tuning DSE Search for maximum indexing throughput
Resolving query timeouts on restarted nodes
Steps to fix query timeouts when restarting nodes with large search indexes.
Table compression can optimize reads
Configure data compression on a per-table basis to optimize performance of read-dominated tasks.
Parallelizing large row reads
Configure DSE Search to parallelize the retrieval of a large number of rows to improve performance.
Changing the stack size and memtable space
Change the stack size to improve performance under Tomcat.
Tuning index size and range query speed
Advanced users can change the precision step of special token field types to tune index size.
Improving read performance
Steps to increase DSE Search read performance.

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