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Experiences with Tombstones in Apache Cassandra
6/8/2020
Tombstones can be detected in logs and by monitoring specific metrics. Their lifespan is defined by the table setting gc_grace_seconds.Tune table settingsgc_grace_secondsThe default setting for the gc...
About Deletes and Tombstones in Cassandra
Deleting distributed and replicated data from a system such as Apache Cassandra is far trickier than in a relational database. The process of deletion becomes more interesting when we consider that Ca...
DataStax has launched a preview of Astra Cassandra-as-a-Service for Kong customers - KongHQ
6/5/2020
By on April 16, 2020Partners | < 1 MIN READWe built Kong to handle any API at any level of scale, but running APIs at scale means storing and managing data at scale. That’s why we’ve always recommend...
How to Choose the Right NoSQL Database for Your Application? - DATAVERSITY
6/4/2020
Click to learn more about author Akshay Pore. This is the second part of an on-going series on NoSQL Databases, the first part was NoSQL Data Architecture & Data Governance: Everything You Need to Kn...
Click to learn more about author Akshay Pore.This is the second part of an on-going series on NoSQL Databases, the first part was NoSQL Data Architecture & Data Governance: Everything You Need to Know...
7 mistakes when using Apache Cassandra
Sep 5, 2019 · 8 min read Photo by Sarah Kilian on UnsplashApache Cassandra is one of the most popular NoSQL databases. It offers great performance and scalability without sacrificing availability. It ...
Instagram Supercharges Cassandra with a Pluggable RocksDB Storage Engine – The New Stack
6/3/2020
To boost the performance of a mission-critical instance of Cassandra, Instagram engineers replaced the storage engine of this Java-based distributed open source database with a faster C++-based one fr...
Apache Cassandra Advanced Architecture Tutorial
Welcome to Lesson Seven ‘Cassandra Advanced Architecture and Cluster Management’ of the Apache Cassandra Certification Course. This lesson will cover the advanced architecture of Cassandra and cluster...