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15 Commandments of Cassandra Admin

1

Rachel PedreschiSolutions Engineering Lead

C*ommandment

I

C*ommandment

II

Disk IO is your

first problem to solve

C*ommandment

III

C*ommandment IV

Embrace large

partitions and de-

normalization

C*ommandment

V

Don’t be afraid

to add nodes

C*ommandment VI

Mind your compactions

C*ommandment

VII

Never use

shared storage

C*ommandment

VIII

Understand

cache. Disk,

Key and Row

C*ommandment

IX

Always use JNA

C*ommandment

X

Learn how to

load data. Bulk

Load. Insert. Copy.

C*ommandment

XI

Repair isn’t

just for broken data

C*ommandment

XII

Know the relationship

between Consistency

Level and Replication

Factor

C*ommandment

XIII

More than 8G

of JVM heap

doesn’t mean better

performance

C*ommandment

XIV

Get involved in

the community

C*ommandment

XV

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