Apache Cassandra Essentials

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Apache provides source as well as binary tarballs and Debian packages."

A block of code is set as follows:

$ sudomkdir -p /var/log/Cassandra
$ sudochown -R `whoami` /var/log/Cassandra
$ sudomkdir -p /var/lib/Cassandra
$ sudochown -R `whoami` /var/lib/cassandra

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ java –version
java version "1.7.0_45"

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