Cassandra book/tuturial

Hey Guys, What is the best book to learn Cassandra from scratch? Thanks in advance, Erwin

Re: Cassandra book/tuturial

On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Erwin Karbasi wrote: > Hey Guys, > > What is the best book to learn Cassandra from scratch? > > Thanks in advance, > Erwin > Hi, Buy : Cassandra: The Definitive Guide By Eben Hewitt : http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920010852.do Thanks Mohan L

Re: Cassandra book/tuturial

I wouldnt buy that book, it's old and not too useful. Find some tutorials and dive in. > On Oct 27, 2013, at 8:54 PM, Mohan L wrote: > > > > >> On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Erwin Karbasi wrote: >> Hey Guys, >> >> What is the best book to learn Cassandra from scratch? >> >> Thanks

Re: Cassandra book/tuturial

Unfortunately, as tech books tend to be, it's quite a bit out of date, at this point. On 10/27/2013 09:54 PM, Mohan L wrote: On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Erwin Karbasi > wrote: Hey Guys, What is the best book to learn Cassandra from scratch? T

Re: Cassandra book/tuturial

Not a book, but I think this is a good start: http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/2.0/webhelp/index.html On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Dave Brosius wrote: > Unfortunately, as tech books tend to be, it's quite a bit out of date, > at this point. > > > > > On 10/27/2013 09:54 PM, M

Re: Cassandra book/tuturial

And here also good intro: http://10kloc.wordpress.com/category/nosql-2/ Thanks Mohan L On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Danie Viljoen wrote: > Not a book, but I think this is a good start: > http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/2.0/webhelp/index.html > > > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3

Re: Cassandra book/tuturial

http://www.planetcassandra.org has a lot of great resources on it. Eben Hewitt's book is great, as are the other C* books like the High Performance Cookbook http://www.amazon.com/Cassandra-Performance-Cookbook-Edward-Capriolo/dp/1849515123 I would recommend reading both of those books. You can a

Re: Cassandra book/tuturial

With lot of enthusiasm i started reading it. Its out-dated, error prone. I could not even get Cassandra running from that book. Eventually i could not get start with cassandra. On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Joe Stein wrote: > http://www.planetcassandra.org has a lot of great resources on it.

Re: Cassandra book/tuturial

Reading previous version's documentation and related information from that time in the past (like books) has value! It helps to understand decisions that were made and changed and some that are still the same like Secondary Indexes which were introduced in 0.7 when http://www.amazon.com/Cassan

Re: Cassandra book/tutorial

Thanks a lot to all for information. I think so that all the current Cassandra are pretty old and outdated. On Oct 28, 2013 6:51 AM, "Joe Stein" wrote: > Reading previous version's documentation and related information from that > time in the past (like books) has value! It helps to understand d

Re: manual read repair

> We have seen read repair take very long time even for few GBs Read Repair is a process that runs during a read to repair differences in the background. It’s active on (by default) 10% of the reads. I assume you mean nodetool repair (aka anti entropy). It runs in two phases, first it calculat

Re: Read repair

> As soon as it came back up, due to some human error, rack1 goes down. Now for > some rows it is possible that Quorum cannot be established. Not sure I follow here. if the first rack has come up I assume all nodes are available, if you then lose a different rack I assume you have 2/3 of the n

Re: Cassandra SSTable deletion/load reporting question

> 1.2 w/ vnodes using LeveledCompactionStrategy, using 128 mb SSTables. If you are using LCS the amount of overwritten / deleted data left will be small. Your row will be present in only 1 sstable per level. The number of levels is included in the output from nodetool cfstats on the sstable cou