Cassandra information using nodetool
Cassandra nodetool provides several types of commands to manage your Cassandra cluster. See my...
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Orientation to Cassandra Nodetool
Nodetool is a broadly useful tool for managing Cassandra clusters. A large percentage of questions...
Cassandra open-source log analysis in Kibana, using filebeat, modeled in Docker
I was recently asked to set up a solution for Cassandra open-source log analysis to include in an...
Authenticating Vault against LDAP for accessing MySQL through ProxySQL
Earlier this year, I was presented with the challenge of streamlining user access to MySQL,...
Lightweight transactions in Cassandra
Cassandra support for transactions Unlike commonly used relational database platforms, Cassandra...
Duplicate indexes in MySQL
Why do we sometimes want to keep duplicate indexes? I’ve done dutiful DBA work in the past to...
Using the MariaDB CONNECT engine to merge heterogeneous data sources
I was reminded recently of a project I did during a DevDays week at WebAssign in 2014. The...
Using gh-ost for online schema changes
The pt-online-schema-change tool has been a workhorse for years, allowing MySQL DBAs to alter...
Data encryption at rest in Oracle MySQL 5.7
I've previously evaluated MariaDB's 10.1 implementation of data encryption at rest (...
Data encryption at rest
This blog post was co-authored by Peter Sylvester and Valerie Parham-Thompson Introduced in version...
