Re: Replace dead node in non-vnode 1.2 cluster

2015-09-17 Thread Paulo Motta
The datastax documentation was fixed after the initial confusion with vnodes vs non-vnodes, so you should be safe to follow the procedure described there. Make sure to set the -Dcassandra.replace_address=address_of_dead_node JVM option (don't worry about the initial token). 2015-09-17 21:21 GMT-03

Re: What is your backup strategy for Cassandra?

2015-09-17 Thread Marc Tamsky
This seems like an apt time to quote [1]: > Remember that you get 1 point for making a backup and 10,000 points for restoring one. Restoring from backups is my goal. The commonly recommended tools (tablesnap, cassandra_snapshotter) all seem to leave the restore operation as a pretty complicated

Using UDT Collection to store user aggregated data

2015-09-17 Thread IPVP
Hi all, Could someone please let me know if the following modeling is on the right way ?  Te requirement is to query by user_id the summarized data  of transaction_status_per_user. - ### UDT CREATE TYPE core_analytics.status_summary ( name text, count int, hexcolor t

Replace dead node in non-vnode 1.2 cluster

2015-09-17 Thread John Wong
Hi Can the community help to confirm that http://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/1.2/cassandra/operations/ops_replace_node_t.html will work for non-vnode cluster in Cassandra 1.2. It looks like I don't have to set the initial token for the replacement node (but same IP) at all if I run the JVM opt

RE: Cassandra shutdown during large number of compactions - now fails to start with OOM Exception

2015-09-17 Thread Walsh, Stephen
Some more info, Looking at the Java Memory Dump file. I see about 400 SSTableScanners - one for each of our column Families. Each is about 200MB in size. And (from what I can see) all of them are reading from a "compactions_in_progress-ka-00-Data.db" file dfile org.apache.cassandra.io.com

Cassandra shutdown during large number of compactions - now fails to start with OOM Exception

2015-09-17 Thread Walsh, Stephen
Hey all, I was hoping someone had a similar issue. We're using 2.1.6 and shutdown a testbed in AWS thinking we were finished with it, We started it backup today and saw that only 2 of 4 nodes came up. Seems there was a lot of compaction happening at the time it was shutdown, cassandra tries to s

Re: Upgrade Limitations Question

2015-09-17 Thread Vasileios Vlachos
Thank you very much for pointing this out Victor. Really useful to know. On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Victor Chen wrote: > Yes, you can examine the actual sstables in your cassandra data dir. That > will tell you what version sstables you have on that node. > > You can refer to this link: >