Introduction

Experience the Realtime implementation of Cassandra Administration projects by exploring different features of Goals for Sizing, Specific concerns for cloud hosting, Replication strategies, Logical and Physical disk configuration,….etc

Course Content

1. The Write Path

• Log Structured Storage
• Memtables
• Flushing

2. The Read Path

• SSTables
• Row Merging
• Cache (Key, Row)
• Compaction
• Distributed Deletes
• Memory Mapped Files
• Evolving Applications

3. Introduction To CAP

• Partition Tolerance
• Data partitioners
• Replication strategies
• Snitches
• Hinted Handoff

4. Availability

• How Cassandra handles failure of one or more nodes
• What to do in the face of failure

5. Aspects Of Consistency

• Consistency
• Coordinators
• Read Repair
• Phi Accrual
• Hinted Handoff
• Anti-entropy Service

6. Cassandra And The JVM

• Monitoring Cassandra
• How Cassandra Works With The Physical Hardware
• CPU
• Disk
• Network
• Goals for Sizing

7. The Different Storage Strategies (Disk Configurations) Including

• Specific concerns for cloud hosting
• Logical and Physical disk configuration
• Local disks vs. network mounted/shared drives

8. Logging

• Cassandra
• System
• GC

9. Backup And Recovery

• Backup
• Recovery

10. Security

• Authentication
• Authorization
• Physical Security