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Apache Cassandra Scalability: Allow Filtering and Partition Keys - Instaclustr
9/13/2018
The ‘ALLOW FILTERING’ clause in Cassandra CQL provides greatly increased flexibility of querying. However, this flexibility comes at a substantial performance cost that should be aware of before usin...
Instaclustr: 7 easy steps to Cassandra cluster migration
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog written by Ben Slater in his capacity as chief product officer at Instaclustr.Instaclustr positions itself as firm offering manage...
Pick‘n’Mix: Cassandra, Spark, Zeppelin, Elassandra, Kibana, & Kafka - Instaclustr
Kafkaesque: \ käf-kə-ˈesk \Marked by a senseless, disorienting, menacing, nightmarishly complexity.One morning when I woke from troubled dreams, I decided to blog about something potentially Kafkaesqu...
Netflix/ndbench
Netflix Data Benchmark (NDBench) is a pluggable cloud-enabled benchmarking tool that can be used across any data store system. NDBench provides plugin support for several data stores and can be ext...
eevans/cdsh
9/7/2018
A simple wrapper script around DSH for Apache Cassandra. Description dsh restricts you to flat groups lists, cdsh wraps dsh to allow you to define your clusters in a single YAML file (~/.cdsh by defa...
Advanced Time Series Data Modelling
Collecting Time Series Vs Storing Time SeriesCassandra is well known as the database of choice when collecting time series events. These may be messages, events or similar transactions that have a tim...
Apache Cassandra, Part 7: Secondary Index, Replication, and Tips
This series of posts present an introduction to Apache Cassandra. It discusses key Cassandra features, its core concepts, how it works under the hood, how it is different from other data stores, data ...
Apache Cassandra, Part 6: Time Series Modelling