Operations

Start and stop Hyper-Converged Database (HCD)

You can start and stop HCD as stand-alone process, otherwise perform a rolling restart for Mission Control-managed clusters.

Add or remove nodes, datacenters, or clusters

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

Back up and restore data using snapshots

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

Repairing nodes

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

Monitor an HCD 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.

Compact and compress

Information on configuring and testing compaction and compression in HCD.

Materialized views maintenance guidelines

Guidelines for using HCD materialized views.

Migrate data to HCD

Methods to migrate data to HCD solutions.

Clear the data from HCD

Remove all data from any type of installation.

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