Running Cassandra in a Multi-node Cluster
This post gathers the steps I followed in setting up an Apache Cassandra cluster in multi-node. I have referred Cassandra wiki and Datastax documentation in setting up my cluster. The following procedure is expressed in details, sharing my experience in setting up the cluster. Setting up first node Adding other nodes Monitoring the cluster - nodetool , jConsole , Cassandra GUI I used Cassandra 1.1.0 and Cassandra GUI - cassandra-gui-0.8.0-beta1 version(As older release had problems in showing data) in Ubuntu OS. Setting up first node Open cassandra.yaml which is in 'apache-cassandra-1.1.0/conf'. Change listen_address: localhost --> listen_address: <node IP address> rpc_address: localhost --> rpc_address: <node IP address> - seeds: "127.0.0.1" --> - seeds: "node IP address" The listen address defines where the other nodes in the cluster should connect. So in a multi-node cluster it should to...