Currently, Cassandra DB stores the following information:
- User Preferences and Config
- Alerts definition
- Customizations
- Dashboards, Policies, and View
- Reports and Licensing
- Shard Maps
- Activities
Cassandra stores all the information which we see under the content folder; basically, any settings which are applied globally.
You are able to log into the Cassandra database from any Analytic Node. The information is the same across nodes.
There are two ways to connect to the Cassandra database:
- cqlshrc is a command-line tool used to get the data within Cassandra, in a SQL-like fashion (inbuilt).
To connect to the DB, run the following from the command line (SSH):
$VMWARE_PYTHON_BIN $ALIVE_BASE/cassandra/apache-cassandra-2.1.8/bin/cqlsh ...