Author: Mario Tavares

Apache Cassandra promises linear scalability and workload distribution, among many other features—and rightly so. However, as with many good things in life, these benefits come with a set of upfront conditions. When the use case aligns with the architectural limitations,…

Occasionally, clients reach out to us with authentication issues when a node is down. While this scenario shouldn’t happen in a high availability database management system (DBMS), it can if you miss a couple of very relevant lines in the…

One of the many things to love about Cassandra is how operationally simple it is to add, remove or even replace nodes in a cluster.     Replacing a node in Cassandra is as easy as setting your configuration files…