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Cassandra High Availability

By : Strickland

4.6 (14)

Cassandra High Availability

4.6 (14)

By: Strickland

Overview of this book

If you are a developer or DevOps engineer who understands the basics of Cassandra and are ready to take your knowledge to the next level, then this book is for you. An understanding of the essentials of Cassandra is needed.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Cassandra's Approach to High Availability

1. Cassandra's Approach to High Availability

ACID

The monolithic architecture

The master-slave architecture

Cassandra's solution

Cassandra's architecture

Summary

2. Data Distribution

2. Data Distribution

Hash table fundamentals

Consistent hashing

Token assignment

Partitioners

Summary

3. Replication

3. Replication

The replication factor

Snitches

Consistency conflicts

Balancing the replication factor with consistency

Summary

4. Data Centers

4. Data Centers

Use cases for multiple data centers

Data center setup

Replication across data centers

Summary

5. Scaling Out

5. Scaling Out

Choosing the right hardware configuration

Scaling out versus scaling up

Growing your cluster

How to scale out

How to scale up

Removing nodes

Other data migration scenarios

Snitch changes

Summary

6. High Availability Features in the Native Java Client

6. High Availability Features in the Native Java Client

Thrift versus the native protocol

Setting up the environment

Connecting to the cluster

Executing statements

Handling asynchronous requests

Load balancing

Failing over to a remote data center

Tying it all together

Summary

7. Modeling for High Availability

7. Modeling for High Availability

How Cassandra stores data

Understanding compaction

CQL under the hood

Understanding queries

How collections are stored

Working with time-series data

Designing for immutability

Working with geospatial data

Summary

8. Antipatterns

8. Antipatterns

Multikey queries

Secondary indices

Distributed joins

Deleting data

Unbounded row growth

Summary

9. Failing Gracefully

9. Failing Gracefully

Knowledge is power

Logging

Monitoring node metrics

When a node goes down

Backing up data

Summary

Index

Index

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Growing your cluster

The process of adding a node to an existing Cassandra cluster ranges from simple when vnodes are used to somewhat tedious if you manually assign tokens. Let's start with the manual case, as the vnodes process is a subset of this.

Adding nodes without vnodes

As previously mentioned, the procedure to add a node to a cluster without vnodes enabled is straightforward, if not a bit tedious. The first step is to determine the new total cluster size, then compute tokens for all nodes.

To compute tokens, follow the DataStax documentation at http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/1.2/cassandra/configuration/configGenTokens_c.html. There are also several useful online tools to help you, such as the ones that you will find at http://www.geroba.com/cassandra/cassandra-token-calculator/.

Once you have the new tokens, complete the following steps to add your new nodes to the cluster:

Run repair to ensure that all nodes contain the most recent data. Failure to do this can result...

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