Beginning Apache Cassandra Development

CHAPTER 10

Cassandra Utilities

So far in this book, we have covered almost all aspects of Cassandra, including data modeling, graph databases, batch analytics, performance tuning, and analyzing various open source and commercial tools. Since we are progressing toward the end of this book, one area worth discussing is various built-in utilities which are quite useful for database administration, stress testing, or performing data migration or bulk loading.

Some of these topics have been discussed already in this book. For example, the stress testing tool for command line-based stress testing was described in Chapter 8, the token generator for ...