A comprehensive handbook that covers the day-to-day managing of Cassandra databases and clustersPresents real-life examples to show how to manage, configure, and troubleshoot Cassandra databases with confidence
Provides the steps and commands for performing virtually every task that a Cassandra administrator needs to perform in creating, managing, optimizing, and securing a Cassandra database

Autorentext
Sam Alapati is a Big Data Principal Administrator at Sabre, in Southlake, Texas, just outside Dallas. He has been working in the big data area for the past few years, after a long stint as an Oracle database administrator. Sam works with Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark, and now with Cassandra as part of his efforts to learn the role of NoSQL and other modern databases in the big data world. He has published several books on various areas of Oracle database administration, as well as a comprehensive handbook on administering Apache Hadoop.

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Part I. Introduction, Installation and Configuration.- 1. Apache Cassandra - An Introduction.- 2. Installing Cassandra and Getting Started with the CQL Shell.- 3. Deploying a Cassandra Cluster.-.- Part II. The Data Model, Cluster Architecture, and the Cassandra Query Language.- 4. Cassandra Data Modeling, and the Reading and Writing of Data.- 5. Cassandra Architecture.- 6. Introduction to the Cassandra Query Language.- 7. Cassandra on Docker, Apache Spark, and the Cassandra Cluster Manager.- 8. Backup, Recovery, and Moving Data.-.- Part III. Maintaining, Monitoring, Tuning, and Securing Apache Cassandra .- 9: Maintaining Cassandra.- 10: Monitoring, Logging, and Metrics.- 11: Tuning Cassandra Performance.-. 12: Securing Cassandra.