Cassandra nodetool provides several types of commands to manage your Cassandra cluster. See my previous post about Cassandra nodetool for an orientation to the types of things you can do with this hel...

Getting StartedEmbedded Cassandra provides an easy way to start and stop Apache Cassandra.To learn more about Embedded Cassandra, please consult the reference documentation.All versions of Embedded...

This project is a Scala application which uses Alpakka Cassandra 2.0, Akka Streams and Twitter4S (Scala Twitter Client) to pull new Tweets from Twitter for a given hashtag (or set of hashtags) using T...

In case you missed it, this blog post is a recap of Cassandra Lunch #33, covering automation for Cassandra deployment. We discuss using Terraform and Ansible to set up the infrastructure for and handl...

In our production Cassandra cluster (At the time of this post was DSE 5.1.18), we were seeing the Total Blocked count for the stat Native-transport-requests increasing regularly on each node. The Nati...

Apache Cassandra has a feature called Read Repair Chance that we always recommend our clients to disable. It is often an additional ~20% internal read load cost on your cluster that serves little purp...

For more recent data modeling content, check out the sample data models in the Data Modeling By Example learning series, as well as our Data Modeling in Apache Cassandra™ whitepaper.  Picking the righ...

Apache Cassandra obviously can’t tell the future. It can only enable you to organize data storage (or at least make it as organized as it can get in a distributed system). But how good is Cassandra at...