Operations

Start and stop DataStax Enterprise

You can start and stop DSE as a service or stand-alone process.

Add or remove nodes, datacenters, or clusters

Information on adding or removing nodes, datacenters, or clusters.

Back up and restore data using the DSE Backup and Restore Service

DSE backs up data by taking a snapshot of all on-disk data files (SSTable files) stored in the data directory.

Back up and restore data using snapshots

DSE backs up data by taking a snapshot of all on-disk data files (SSTable files) stored in the data directory.

Repair nodes

Repairing nodes makes sure data in every replica is consistent with other replicas.

Monitor a DataStax Enterprise cluster

Information about performance characteristics, thread pool, read/write latency, table statistics, compaction metrics, and endpoint metrics.

Tune the database

Tuning Java resources, Bloom filters, and configuring memtable thresholds to improve write performance.

Data caching

Configuring caches for optimal performance.

Compacting and compressing

Information on configuring and testing compaction and compression in DSE.

Materialized views maintenance guidelines

Guidelines for using DSE materialized views.

Migrate data to DataStax Enterprise

Methods to migrate data to DSE solutions.

Collect node health and indexing status scores

Steps to configure node health options, and commands to retrieve health and indexing scores.

Clear the data from DataStax Enterprise

Remove all data from any type of installation.

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