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I have now had a chance to experiment with the Cassandra Auto Repair setup, I have been using Cassandra 6 alpha for this, but it should be the same in Cassandra 5.0.8. Here are some of my observations. 1) You can setup…
Cassandra 5.0.8 was released on Friday, I think, as far as a Cassandra operator is concerned, it is the most significant minor release for many years. Cassandra now has repairs build into the individual nodes, in the form of auto repairs. This…
I have been trying to test the new Cassandra 6 alpha release for the last few days, but have been a bit stuck. Firstly I encountered some issues running multiple nodes within one machine, TCM does not seem to like that and…
Recently I have needed to track down what queries were being run against a cluster. We were needing queries to be run with a consistency of LOCAL_QUORUM but it appeared that some where being run with QUORUM instead. So I needed to…
Recently I was looking at the performance of a cluster, and discovered the development team were performing a lot of count(*) additional on a specific table. This was quite easy to spot as it was a Datastax cluster and the queries were…