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Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x - Third Edition
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Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x - Third Edition

by Aaron Ploetz, Tejaswi Malepati
October 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
348 pages
10h
English
Packt Publishing
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Evaluating instance requirements

Knowing how to appropriately size hardware for a new Cassandra cluster is a vital step to helping your application team succeed. Instances running Apache Cassandra must have sufficient resources available to be able to support the required operational workload.

One important note about the hardware/instance requirements for Cassandra is that it was designed to run on commodity-level hardware. While some enterprise RDBMS suppliers recommend copious amounts of RAM and several dozen CPU cores on a proprietary chassis, Cassandra can run on much, much less. In fact, Cassandra can be made to run on small to mid-sized cloud instances, or even something as meager as a Raspberry Pi. However, as with most databases, ...

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