CQL Under the HoodAt this point, most users should be aware that CQL has replaced Thrift as the standard (and therefore recommended) interface for working with Cassandra. Yet it remains largely misund...

We were trying to find solution to backup and restore Cassandra hosted on AWS without loosing too much data . We tried using the native nodetool snapshot but we will loose data between the snapshots. ...

Theory of OperationTablesnap is a script that uses inotify to monitor a directory for IN_MOVED_TO events and reacts to them by spawning a new thread to upload that file to Amazon S3, along with a JSON...

Data is critical to modern business and operational teams need to have a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) to deal with the risks of potential data loss. At TLP, we are regularly involved in the data recov...

GraphSense is an open source platform for analyzing cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. Address Clustering: partition the set of addresses observed in a cryptocurrency ecosystem into maximal subsets (cl...

In my previous blogpost “Analysis of the impact of new use cases on a Cassandra data model and operations in code” I looked at the risks of deploying Cassandra. In Cassandra we face the challenges of ...

IntroductionThis post was written by one of Sysdig’s engineers Gianluca Borello and was originally featured on Planet Cassandra.As far as databases go, I’m a huge fan of Cassandra: it’s an incredibly ...

Apache Cassandra's peer-to-peer architecture makes it a great choice when you need scalability and high availability. It's also a lot different from the RDBMS systems you mig...