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Seven NoSQL Databases in a Week

You're reading from   Seven NoSQL Databases in a Week Get up and running with the fundamentals and functionalities of seven of the most popular NoSQL databases

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787288867
Length 308 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sudarshan Kadambi Sudarshan Kadambi
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Aaron Ploetz Aaron Ploetz
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Devram Kandhare Devram Kandhare
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Xun (Brian) Wu Xun (Brian) Wu
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Preface 1. Introduction to NoSQL Databases FREE CHAPTER 2. MongoDB 3. Neo4j 4. Redis 5. Cassandra 6. HBase 7. DynamoDB 8. InfluxDB 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Node configuration


To configure your node properly, you will need your machine's IP address (assume 192.168.0.100, for this exercise). Once you have that, look inside your configuration directory ($CASSANDRA_HOME/conf for Tarball installs, /etc/cassandra for apt-get installs) and you will notice several files: cassandra.yaml, cassandra-env.sh, and cassandra-rackdc.properties among them.

In the cassandra.yaml file, make the following adjustments:

I'll name the cluster PermanentWaves:

cluster_name: "PermanentWaves"

Next, I'll designate this node as a seed node. Basically, this means other nodes will look for this node when joining the cluster. Do not make all of your nodes seed nodes:

seeds: "192.168.0.100"

Usually, listen_address and rpc_address will be set to the same IP address. In some cloud implementations, it may be necessary to also set broadcast_address and/or broadcast_rpc_address to your instances' external IP address, instead. But for a basic, on-the-metal setup, this will work fine:

listen_address...
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