[RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 2.1.8 released

2015-07-09 Thread Jake Luciani
The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Cassandra version 2.1.8. Apache Cassandra is a fully distributed database. It is the right choice when you need scalability and high availability without compromising performance. http://cassandra.apache.org/ Downloads of source an

[RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 2.2.0-rc2 released

2015-07-09 Thread Jake Luciani
The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Cassandra version 2.2.0-rc2. Apache Cassandra is a fully distributed database. It is the right choice when you need scalability and high availability without compromising performance. http://cassandra.apache.org/ Downloads of sourc

Re: Question on 'Average tombstones per slice' when running cfstats

2015-07-09 Thread Venkatesh Kandaswamy
That is correct, we are doing heavy delete-insert. We have been debating doing update instead of delete-insert. But conversations with some engineers indicate that behind the scenes an update is a delete-insert and will still create tombstones. Is there any way we can avoid tombstones (other tha

Re: Is there a way to remove a node with Opscenter?

2015-07-09 Thread Sid Tantia
Found my mistake: I was typing the command on the node I was trying to remove from the cluster. After trying the command on another node in the cluster, it worked (`nodetool status` shows the node as removed), however OpsCenter still does not recognize the node as removed. Any ways to fix OpsC

cqlsh LexicalUUIDType display

2015-07-09 Thread Marcin Pietraszek
Hi! Is there any way to force cqlsh to display LexicalUUIDType values in "more readable way"? Currently it looks like a hex value mixed with some strange chars (^t @ * g=) http://www.wepaste.com/kbl/ -- mp