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Apache Cassandra: The Big Data Foundation - Instaclustr
9/13/2018
IntroductionTo state the obvious, we here at Instaclustr are massive fans of Apache Cassandra. We have built our company and our managed service around this database technology and the awesomeness of ...
Cassandra Archives - Instaclustr
Technical Technical — Cassandra Why We Built an Open Source Cassandra-Operator to Run Apache Cassandra on KubernetesThursday 13th September 2018 by Ben BromheadAs Kubernetes becomes the de fact...
A Benevolent Hacker Is Warning Owners of Unsecured Cassandra Databases
An unknown hacker is accessing public and unsecured Apache Cassandra databases and adding an extra table through which it warns server owners that their DB was left exposed to online attacks.The first...
Apache Cassandra Security - Instaclustr
Apache Cassandra security has hit the new lately with a benevolent hacker attempting to warn owners of unsecured Cassandra databases about their exposure (see https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/sec...
Apache Cassandra Documentation : Cassandra Config
cluster_nameThe name of the cluster. This is mainly used to prevent machines in one logical cluster from joining another.Default Value: ‘Test Cluster’num_tokensThis defines the number of tokens random...
Cassandra’s Place in the NoSQL World - Instaclustr
A question that we commonly get asked is “how does Apache Cassandra compare to NoSQL technology X?”. While the easy answer is to say “It’s just better”, the truth of course isn’t that simple. NoSQL en...
Deep Diving cassandra-stress - Part 3 (Using YAML Profiles) - Instaclustr
In the previous two posts of this series (Part 1 and Part 2) I covered some of the basic commands of cassandra-stress. In this post I will start looking at the use of the stress YAML file for more adv...
Deep Diving into cassandra-stress - Part 2 (Mixed Command) - Instaclustr
This is the second of a series of articles explain the operations of cassandra-stress. See here for Part 1.This series of blogs has been created as part of my prep for my Cassandra summit talk ‘Load T...