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DSE 6.8 Administrator Guide

Getting started
Information about using DataStax Enterprise for Administrators.
Release notes
Release notes for DataStax Enterprise.
Installing
DataStax Enterprise 6.8 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 6.8 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 6.8 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.
- DataStax Graph
  Documentation for developers and administrators on installing, configuring, and using the features and capabilities of DataStax Graph (DSG).
  - About DataStax Graph
    Documentation for developers and administrators on installing, configuring, and using the features and capabilities of DataStax Graph.
  - What's new in DataStax Graph
    What's new in DataStax Graph.
  - Managing graphs
    Creating and dropping graphs.
  - Managing graph schema
    Creating, modifying, and dropping graph database schema.
  - Managing graph data
    Inserting, updating, examining, and dropping graph data.
  - Discovering properties about graphs and traversals
    Discover simple information about graphs and traversals.
  - Creating queries using traversals
    Create queries using graph traversals.
  - DataStax Graph Operations
    DataStax Graph (DSG) Operations
  - DataStax Graph Tools
    Introduce tools available for DataStax Graph (DSG).
  - Starting the Gremlin console
    Starting the Gremlin console for an interactive environment.
  - DataStax Graph Reference
    Reference commands and other information for DataStax Graph (DSG).
    - The graph traversal API
      Reference guide to graph traversal commands.
    - The system API
      Reference guide to system commands.
- 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.

DataStax Graph Reference

Reference commands and other information for DataStax Graph (DSG).

The graph traversal API
Reference guide to graph traversal commands.
The system API
Reference guide to system commands.

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