!!! Cassandra

Just some free format stuff for a small studying / experiment with NoSQL stuff.

!! Resources
* [C* 2012: Building a Cassandra Based Application from Scratch (Patrick McFadin, Hobsons)
|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myka6Elo-dM]
* [Introduction to NoSQL by Martin Fowler|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI_g07C_Q5I]
* [http://cassandra.apache.org/]

!! Install/config

! lxc

* /etc/default/lxc => change subnet from 10.0.3 to 10.0.4 (10.0.3 is already in use somewhere else)
* add static route in wireless router (10.0.4.0/8 => via 10.0.0.164)
* adjust {{ /etc/network/interfaces }} of container to:
{{{
auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp
iface eth0 inet static
        address 10.0.4.10
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        network 10.0.4.0
        broadcast 10.0.4.255
        gateway 10.0.4.1
        post-up route add default gw 10.0.4.1 dev eth0
        # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed
        dns-nameservers 213.197.28.3 213.197.30.28
        dns-search computerhok.nl
}}}
* lxc-host ubuntu1 => 10.0.4.10
* useradd cssndra && mkdir /home/cssndra && chown -R cssndra /home/cssndra + change {{/etc/passwd}} => sh => bash
* wget 'http://mirrors.supportex.net/apache/cassandra/1.2.4/apache-cassandra-1.2.4-bin.tar.gz'
* apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk
* sudo mkdir /opt/apache-cassandra-1.2.4 && sudo chown cssndra /opt/apache-cassandra-1.2.4 && sudo ln -s /opt/apache-cassandra-1.2.4 /opt/cassandra
* cssndra@ubuntu1:~$ cd /opt && tar -xf ~/apache-cassandra-1.2.4-bin.tar
* ls -l
{{{
cssndra@ubuntu1:/opt/cassandra$ ls -l
total 248
-rw-r--r-- 1 cssndra cssndra 152928 Apr  8 19:21 CHANGES.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 cssndra cssndra  11609 Apr  8 19:21 LICENSE.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 cssndra cssndra  47580 Apr  8 19:21 NEWS.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 cssndra cssndra   1820 Apr  8 19:21 NOTICE.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 cssndra cssndra   3569 Apr  8 19:21 README.txt
drwxr-xr-x 2 cssndra cssndra   4096 May 15 21:43 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 cssndra cssndra   4096 May 15 21:43 conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 cssndra cssndra   4096 May 15 21:43 interface
drwxr-xr-x 4 cssndra cssndra   4096 May 15 21:43 javadoc
drwxr-xr-x 3 cssndra cssndra   4096 May 15 21:43 lib
drwxr-xr-x 3 cssndra cssndra   4096 May 15 21:43 pylib
drwxr-xr-x 4 cssndra cssndra   4096 Apr  8 19:21 tools
}}}
* sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/cassandra/data /var/lib/cassandra/commitlog && sudo chown -R cssndra /var/lib/cassandra
* sudo mkdir /var/log/cassandra/ && sudo chown -R cssndra /var/log/cassandra    
* limit the heap size usage by editing conf/cassandra-env.sh : MAX_HEAP_SIZE="512M" HEAP_NEWSIZE="100M"
* start the thing with : ''./bin/cassandra -f ''