awesome-cassandra

Cassandra toolkit

A curated list of resources and tools for working with Cassandra, a distributed NoSQL database

A curated list of the best resources in the Cassandra community.

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Awesome Cassandra / General / Cassandra

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Awesome Cassandra / General / Cassandra History

IDG: 10 Years of Apache Cassandra Retrospective discussing the first 10 years of Cassandra's history
ZDNet: Cassandra Turns 10 Highlights of the growth of Cassandra over it's first 10 years

Awesome Cassandra / General / Cassandra Use Cases

Datastax Academy: What is Cassandra? Introduction to what Cassandra is, where it came from, and some of it's benefits
Kaa application based on Raspberry Pi and DHT11 sensor 0 about 9 years ago Cassandra IoT usecase with Raspberry Pi and a DHT11 Sensor
Simple Node.js Express 4 Cassandra Application 22 almost 10 years ago MySubscribers is a very simple application (Start of an application) which allows you to create, read, update and delete users/subscribers. This application was only created to aid the YouTube course

Awesome Cassandra / General / Cassandra Distributions

DataStax Enterprise Most widely used commercial distribution of Cassandra, integrated with Apache Spark (for SparkSQL, analytics), Apache Solr (for secondary index), Apache TinkerPop based Graph stored in Cassandra, and OpsCenter
DDAC/Luna Datastax Distribution of Cassandra, a production ready distribution with a bulk loader supported by Datastax. DDAC is Deprecated now, but Datastax is still supporting Cassandra with it's new Luna Service
ScyllaDB 13,581 6 days ago NoSQL data store using the seastar framework, compatible with Cassandra
YugaByte Database 9,003 6 days ago YugaByteDB is a transactional, high-performance database for building distributed cloud services. It supports Cassandra-compatible and Redis-compatible APIs, with PostgreSQL in Beta
DataStax Astra DataStax Astra Cassandra as a Service running on the Kubernetes operator Cassandra available on AWS and GCP
IBM Cloud Databases for DataStax IBM Cloud Managed Service for DataStax Enterprise
Instaclustr Managed Cassandra as a Service Instaclustr provides a fully managed and SOC 2 certified hosted & managed service for Cassandra® on AWS, Azure, GCP and IBM Cloud
Aiven for Cassandra Aiven for Cassandra is a managed and hosted distributed NoSQL database providing scalability, high availability, and excellent fault tolerance. Cassandra as a Service is available on Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean, and UpCloud
Microsoft Azure Managed Instance for Cassandra Azure Managed Instance for Cassandra provides automated deployment and scaling operations for managed open-source Cassandra datacenters. It accelerates hybrid scenarios and reduces ongoing maintenance
Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB: Cassandra API Azure Cosmos DB provides the Cassandra API (preview) for applications that are written for Cassandra that need premium capabilities
Amazon Keyspaces for Cassandra Amazon Web Services (AWS) Amazon Keyspaces for Cassandra provides a CQL compliant access to a "Serverless" auto-scaling datastore

Awesome Cassandra / General / Using Cassandra

Installing the Cassandra / Spark OSS Stack Installation process and user guide for the Cassandra / Spark OSS Stack
The Cassandra Query Language Documentation for CQL
The LIMIT Clause in Cassandra might not work as you think Blog post for the considerations on the efficiency of the LIMIT clause
Building a Performant API using Go and Cassandra Tutorial documenting how to build a RESTful API using Go and Cassandra
Cassandra Data Copy Tool 7 almost 6 years ago Java tool to copy data from one cassandra table to another
Spring Data Cassandra Examples 4 over 5 years ago Examples for the Spring Data Cassandra Project
Introduction to Spark & Cassandra Blog post on setting up a really simple Spark job that does a data migration for Cassandra
From Cassandra to S3, with Spark Blog post showing how to connect Spark to Cassandra, analyze event data from Cassandra, and store the results of the analysis into S3, making it available for reporting or further analysis
Import CSV files with spark 0 about 8 years ago How to import a file from S3 into cassandra using Spark
Top 5 reasons to use the Cassandra Database Few good reasons why you'd want to consider Cassandra
Cloud DevOps with Cassandra Using Packer, Ansible/SSH and AWS command line tools to create and DBA manage EC2 Cassandra instances in AWS
How to install Cassandra 2 on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 Guide on how to install Cassandra on the popular linux distributions RedHat and CentOS
Cassandra Use Cases: When to use and when not to use Cassandra Practical guide for when to use and when not to use Cassandra
Cassandra Database (Guide) Great guide to learn about Cassandra, from Instaclustr

Awesome Cassandra / General / Cassandra from Relational

RDBMS to NoSQL Your roadmap to understanding whether NoSQL is right for you
Cassandra Schemas for Beginners (like me) Great article for new developers to Cassandra
Cassandra Query Language: CQL vs SQL Blog post documenting similarities and differences between CQL and SQL
Real-Time Replication from MySQL to Cassandra Demonstration of migrating data from MySQL to Cassandra
Cassandra Tutorial for Beginners Lesson plan for users just starting out with Cassandra

Awesome Cassandra / General / Cassandra Data Modeling

Basic Rules Of Cassandra Data Modeling Picking the right data model is the hardest part of using Cassandra. If you have a relational background, CQL will look familiar, but the way you use it can be very different
CQL: This is not the SQL you are Looking For Presentation that explores and explains the differences between the CQL and SQL languages
A Deep Look at the CQL Where Clause Blog post to describe what is supported by the CQL WHERE clause and the reasons why it differs from normal SQL
killrvideo-sample-schema 25 over 7 years ago Sample Cassandra CQL Schema for a YouTube clone
Spring Data Cassandra Examples 4 over 5 years ago Maven project that contains examples showcasing the features and functionality of the Spring Data Cassandra project
Common Problems in Cassandra Data Models Presentation and Article on wide partions, tombstones, and data skew
Casandra Time Series Data Modeling for Massive Scale Blog post discussing a common Cassandra data modeling technique called bucketing
Cassandra Data Modeling Notes Simple notes on how to estimate the size of your cluster
Scalar DB 470 7 days ago Transaction library for Cassandra that makes non-ACID distributed databases/storages ACID-compliant
Cassandra Data Modeling Best Practices Guide Explains five Cassandra data modeling best practices

Awesome Cassandra / General / Cassandra Architecture

The Gossip Protocol - Inside Cassandra. Good visual explanation of how Cassandra keeps consistent
Introduction To The Cassandra 3.x Storage Engine The 3.x storage engine makes it easier for Cassandra to get bytes off disk
Dropping columns in Cassandra 3.0 Blog post describing the steps Cassandra takes when a column is dropped
Hinted Handoff and GC Grace Demystified Tuning the balance between GC Grace and Hinted Handoff
Deletes and Tombstones Explains how deletes create tombstones in Cassandra and what they are
About Deletes and Tombstones in Cassandra Deleting distributed and replicated data from a system such as Cassandra is far trickier than in a relational database
Null bindings on prepared statements and undesired tombstone creation Good follow up to the last article on Tombstones
Undetectable tombstones in Cassandra Indepth analysis of cell and range tombstones
Common Problems with Cassandra Tombstones Large number of tombstones causes Latency and heap pressure
Curious Case of Tombstones How someone dealt with tombstone issues and reclaimed space in their cluster
Understanding the Nuance of Compaction in Cassandra Overview of how Cassandra manages data on disk
Guide to Cassandra Thread Pools Guide that provides a description of the different thread pools and how to monitor them. Includes what to alert on, common issues and solutions. Old but very useful reference
Cassandra Architecture and Operations High level overview in one page of how Cassandra works
Improving Cassandra's Front Door and Backpressure Explore how an incoming request was processed by Cassandra before, see what they changed, and look at new relevant configuration knobs available
Cassandra Architecture High level overview of Cassandra from Instaclustr
The 10 Things I hate about Cassandra Do you really want to use Cassandra? Learn why not to use it

Awesome Cassandra / General / Cassandra Monitoring

Resources for Monitoring Datastax, Cassandra, Spark, & Solr Performance Blog post detailing different types of monitoring tools and their purpose
How to Monitor Cassandra Guide to help you monitor Cassandra performance and work metrics regardles of which monitoring tool you choose to use
Cassandra metrics and their use in Grafana Case study of using Cassandra metrics in Grafana
Monitoring Cassandra with Prometheus Quick setup guide to using Cassandra with Prometheus
Monitoring Cassandra With Grafana And Influx DB Blog post explaining how to set up Cassandra monitoring with influxDB and Grafana
Cassandra Monitoring - Introduction (1/2) Blog post detailing how Cassandra metrics can be gathered
Cassandra Monitoring - Graphite/InfluxDB & Grafana on Docker (2/2) Continuation of the previous entry exploring the topic of Cassandra metric reporters mentioned in Part I. The goal is to configure a reporter that sends metrics to an external time series database
Monitoring Cassandra using Intel Snap and Grafana Blog post describing how to monitor Cassandra using the Intel Snap open source telemetry framework
Cassandra Monitoring Best Practice Guide Blog post that aims to touch all the important aspects of Cassandra monitoring

Awesome Cassandra / General / Cassandra Maintenance

Running commands cluster-wide without any management tool Some tips and tricks to do basic Cluster operations without tools like Chef, Ansible, or Salt
Limiting Nodetool Parallel Threads Little known tool to do nodetool operations with less resources
Bootstrapping Cassandra Nodes Indepth article on how to add nodes to a running Cassandra cluster
Node Replacement without Bootstrapping How to avoid the long bootstrapping process
Cassandra Backup and Restore - Backup in AWS using EBS Volumes Indepth article about Backup and recovery in AWS
Backup Strategies for Cassandra Good comparison of different backup and restoration strategies for Cassandra
Cassandra backup util 49 6 days ago Instaclustr's cassandra backup tool
Cassy 40 almost 2 years ago Simple and integrated backup tool for Cassandra
Intro to CStar Tutorial on how to use CStar
Medusa 264 21 days ago Cassandra backup system

Awesome Cassandra / General / Cassandra Performance Tuning

Jon Haddad: Cassandra Summit Recap - Diagnosing Problems in Production
Ryan Svihla's Cassandra 2.0 checklist Checklist for determining the efficiency of your Cassandra database
Amy's Cassandra 2.1 tuning guide Guide to tracking down performance issues in production level Cassandra clusters
Secret HotSpot option improving GC pauses on large heaps
DSE 5.1: Tuning Java Resource Documentation for tuning JVM
Analyzing Cassandra Performance with Flame Graphs Visually examining Cassandra performance visually using Flamegraphs
Garbage Collection Tuning for Cassandra Optimizing garbage collection for better performance
Cassandra Node Diagnostics Tools 51 about 7 years ago Monitoring and audit power kit for Cassandra
TWCS part 1 - how does it work and when should you use it? Best suited for time series data that expires, Time Window Compaction Strategy comes with some caveats
Performing User Defined Compactions in Cassandra Documenting a process by which we tell Cassandra to create a compaction task for one or more tables explicitly
Graphing cassandra-stress Benchmarking schemas and configuration changes using the cassandra-stress tool, before pushing such changes out to production is one of the things every Cassandra developer should know and regularly practice
Modeling real life workloads with cassandra-stress is hard Blog post detailing caveats with cassandra-stress when modeling real workloads
Gatling DSE Stress 5 almost 5 years ago Tool for stress testing DSE
Gatling DSE Plugin for Gatling Load injector 8 3 months ago Plugin for the Gatling load injector. It adds CQL support in Gatling for Datastax Enterprise. It allows for benchmarking Datastax Enterprise features, including DSE Graph Fluent API
Gatling DSE Stress Simulation Catalog 4 almost 6 years ago The goal of the repo is to provide a sample of the Gatling DSE Stress Framework's usage. Feel free to submit a pull request with example simulations

Awesome Cassandra / General / Cassandra Security

Securing Cassandra with Application Level Encryption Discusses how to do application level data encryption to properly manage secure information in Cassandra
Hardening Cassandra Step by Step: Part 1 Inter-Node Encryption (And a Gentle Intro to Certificates)
LDAP Authenticator for Cassandra 24 27 days ago Pluggable authentication implementation for Cassandra, providing a way to authenticate and create users based on a configured LDAP server
Encrypting EC2 ephemeral volumes with LUKS and AWS KMS The example used here is Cassandra data stored on ephemeral disks

Awesome Cassandra / General / Cassandra Deployment

An Introduction to Cassandra Multi-Data Centers: Part 1 Learn about how to plan and implement Multi-Data Centers: Part 1
An Introduction to Cassandra Multi-Data Centers: Part 2 Learn about how to plan and implement Multi-Data Centers: Part 2
How To Setup A Highly Available Multi-AZ Cassandra Cluster On AWS EC2
tlp-cluster, a tool for launching Cassandra clusters in AWS 21 about 2 years ago Provisioning tool for Cassandra designed for developers looking to both benchmark and test the correctness of Cassandra. It assists with builds and starting instances on AWS
Setting Up Cassandra Cluster Through Ansible Guide detailing how to set up a Cassandra cluster with automation using Ansible
Running Cassandra on DC/OS (Mesos) Blog that shows how to setup DC/OS in the Amazon cloud, how to install Cassandra on a DC/OS cluster, and finally new ways to interact with and Cassandra after it is installed
Benchmarking Cassandra with Local Storage on Azure Learn about comparing Cassandra on Azure VMs w/ Local vs. Remote storage
Docker Meet Cassandra. Cassandra Meet Docker Article reviewing how to setup a complete Cassandra application with monitoring on Docker
Example code from the Docker Meet Cassandra Article 100 over 5 years ago
Docker-Cassandra 215 over 10 years ago Set of scripts and config files to run a Cassandra cluster from Docker
Cassandra & Zeppelin Notebook on Docker 4 about 5 years ago Docker-Compose script for Cassandra + Zeppelin setup
Packer: Cassandra Image 49 over 7 years ago Cassandra Image using Packer for Docker and EC2 AMI. Covers managing EC2 Cassandra clusters with Ansible
Cassandra Docker 8 over 5 years ago Instaclustr public docker image for Cassandra. It contains docker images for Cassandra 3.0 and 3.11.1
Cassandra / Elassandra Docker 0 over 6 years ago Cassandra and Elassandra docker images.Cass Operator is maintained by a team at DataStax and it is part of what powers DataStax Astra
K8ssandra.io - Kubernetes + Cassandra K8ssandra provides a production-ready platform for running Cassandra on Kubernetes. This includes automation for operational tasks such as repairs, backups, and monitoring
Datastax - Cassandra Kubernetes Operator 257 11 months ago Datastax's Cassandra Kubernetes Operator which supports Datastax as well as open source Cassandra containers on Kubernetes
Instaclustr - Kubernetes Operator for Cassandra 240 7 months ago The Cassandra operator manages Cassandra clusters deployed to Kubernetes and automates tasks related to operating an Cassandra cluster
Sky UK - Cassandra Kubernetes Operator Kubernetes operator that manages Cassandra clusters inside Kubernetes. Well designed and organized
CassKop - Cassandra operator for Kubernetes 183 over 2 years ago Kubernetes operator automates the Cassandra operations such as deploying a new rack aware cluster, adding/removing nodes, configuring the C and JVM parameters, upgrading JVM and C versions. Written in Go
Strapdata - Elassandra Operator for Kubernetes 11 almost 2 years ago The Elassandra Kubernetes Operator automates the deployment and management of Elassandra clusters deployed in multiple Kubernetes clusters
Rook.io - Cassandra on Kubernetes Rook is an open source cloud-native storage orchestrator, providing the platform, framework, and support for a diverse set of storage solutions to natively integrate with cloud-native environments. They have a special operator for Cassandra amongst other providers
Kudo Cassandar Operator 10 over 1 year ago The KUDO Cassandra Operator makes it easy to deploy and manage Cassandra on Kubernetes

Awesome Cassandra / General / Integrating with Cassandra

Building a Streaming Data Hub with Elasticsearch, Kafka and Cassandra Blog post detailing how a streaming analytics system on top of open source, big data components can be done
Docker container for Kafka - Spark streaming - Cassandra 97 over 5 years ago Dockerfile that sets up a complete streaming environment for experimenting with Kafka, Spark streaming (PySpark), and Cassandra
sample KafkaSparkCassandra 23 almost 6 years ago Introductory sample scala app using Apache Spark Streaming to accept data from Kafka and write a summary to Cassandra
sample Spark Cassandra with SSL 1 almost 6 years ago Simple sample job illustrating the use of Spark to execute Apache Spark analytics with Cassandra with SSL connection
Cassandra API with .NET Quickstart guide on how to use .NET and the Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API to build a profile app
DataStax C# Driver 640 about 2 months ago C# Driver for Cassandra from DataStax
DataStax C# Driver Documentation Documentation on the C# Driver for Cassandra from DataStax
CQL data types to C# types Documentation on CQL data types to C# types
Connect to Cassandra with C# Instaclustr article on how to connect to Cassandra with C#
Access Amazon Keyspaces with a Cassandra .NET Core Driver Article shows how to connect to Amazon Keyspaces by using a .NET Core client driver
Cassandra ADO.NET Driver Cassandra ADO.NET Data Provider enables user to easily connect to Cassandra data from .NET applications
Cassandra Pagination with ASP.NET Core C# Article covering how to create infinite scroll pagination with Cassandra and ASP.NET Core C#
DataStax Spark Cassandra Connector 1,943 3 months ago Library that lets you expose Cassandra tables as Spark RDDs, write Spark RDDs to Cassandra tables, and execute arbitrary CQL queries in your Spark applications
sample Spark Job Server Cassandra 2 over 8 years ago Simple sample job illustrating the use of Spark Jobserver to execute Apache Spark analytics with Cassandra
fluxcapacitor/pipeline 4,172 7 months ago End-to-End, Real-time, Advanced Analytics Big Data Reference Pipeline using Spark, Spark SQL, Spark ML, GraphX, Spark Streaming, Kafka, NiFi, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Redis, Tachyon, HDFS, Zeppelin, iPython/Jupyter Notebook, Tableau, Twitter Algebird
Spark + Cassandra Best Practices Outlines general use cases and best practices of Spark & Cassandra together
Tuning DSE Search Tuning DSE Search – Indexing latency and query latency
Cassandra Lucene Index 600 over 4 years ago Lucene based secondary indexes for Cassandra
Elassandra Elassandra = Elasticsearch as a Cassandra secondary index
cassandra-trigger Cassandra trigger to push realtime updates to elasticsearch

Awesome Cassandra / Databases / Timeseries Databases

cortexproject/cortex 5,472 6 days ago Horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term Prometheus storage
filodb/FiloDB 1,430 7 days ago Distributed Prometheus time-series database compatible with Prometheus queries
cybem/cyanite-iow 0 over 9 years ago Cassandra backed Carbon daemon and metric web service. IPONWEB repository, compatible with Carbon
kairosdb/kairosdb 1,740 7 months ago Fast scalable time series database
Cassandra Schema — KairosDB 1.0.1 documentation KairosDB documentation
Newts Time-series data store based on Cassandra
OpenNMS/newts 194 4 months ago New-fangled Timeseries Data Store that powers OpenNMS
Hawkular.org Time series / distributed tracing database powered by Cassandra by Redhat
Hawkular GitHub Hawkular's GitHub resources
OpenTSDB/opentsdb 5,005 about 2 months ago GitHub resources for OpenTSDB. A Distributed, Scalable Monitoring System built on a Time Series Database

Awesome Cassandra / Databases / Graph

DSE Graph | Datastax Successor to TitanDB , Commercial Tinkerpop / Gremlin compatible large scale Graph Database on DSE
Thinkaurelius/Titan 5,249 about 2 years ago Distributed Graph Database, predecessor to DSE Graph, JanusGraph, and now HugeGraph
Introduction to TitanDB Introductory slides about TitanDB
JanusGraph/janusgraph 5,325 6 days ago JanusGraph: an open-source, distributed graph database, successor to TitanDB
Large Scale Graph Analytics with JanusGraph Slides detailing deployment options and technical aspects of JanusGraph
Hugegraph/Hugegraph 9 about 2 months ago HugeGraph Database core component, including graph engine, API, and built-in backends
Architecture Overview · GitBook Documentation for HugeGraph

Awesome Cassandra / Databases / Miscellaneous

Cassandra vs MongoDB Article comparing the two popular NoSQL databases
Stargate 825 29 days ago Stargate is an open-source data gateway that provides REST, GraphQL and schemaless JSON interfaces to Cassandra
Meet Stargate, DataStax's GraphQL for databases. First stop - Cassandra Introduction and high-level overview of Stargate
Apache/Usergrid 990 6 months ago Open source Backend as a Service (BaaS) on Cassandra, Elasticsearch with client SDKs for iOS/Android/.NET/Java
Building Your Own BaaS With Apache Usergrid & Docker: Lessons Learned At Scale Introductory presentation to Apache UserGrid
Scalar-labs/Scalardl 105 21 days ago Tamper-evident and scalable distributed ledger platform
Wikimedia/Restbase 104 3 months ago Distributed storage with REST API & dispatcher for backend services
Wikimedia/restbase-mod-table-spec 3 over 5 years ago Shared spec and tests for RESTBase table storage

Awesome Cassandra / Packages / Libraries

express-cassandra 232 3 months ago Cassandra ORM/ODM/OGM for Node.js with optional support for Elassandra & JanusGraph
DataStax Java Driver 1,353 8 days ago Java client driver for Cassandra
DataStax C++ Driver 406 8 days ago Modern, feature-rich, and highly tunable C/C++ client library for Cassandra (1.2+) and DataStax Enterprise (3.1+) using exclusively Cassandra's native protocol and Cassandra Query Language v3
DataStax Python Driver 1,393 9 days ago Modern, feature-rich and highly-tunable Python client library for Cassandra (2.1+) using exclusively Cassandra's binary protocol and Cassandra Query Language v3
DataStax Ruby Driver 233 4 months ago Ruby client driver for Cassandra. This driver works exclusively with the Cassandra Query Language version 3 (CQL3) and Cassandra's native protocol
DataStax Node.js Driver 1,240 29 days ago Modern, feature-rich and highly tunable Node.js client library for Cassandra (1.2+) and DataStax Enterprise (3.1+) using exclusively Cassandra's binary protocol and Cassandra Query Language v3
DataStax C# Driver 640 about 2 months ago Modern, feature-rich and highly tunable C# client library for Cassandra (1.2+) and DataStax Enterprise (3.1+) using exclusively Cassandra's binary protocol and Cassandra Query Language v3
DataStax PHP Driver 435 about 1 year ago DataStax PHP Driver for Cassandra
Achilles Achilles is an open source Persistence Manager for Cassandra,with the features like Advanced bean mapping (compound primary key, composite partition key, timeUUID, ect),Native collections and map support,and so
phpcassa 248 over 9 years ago PHP client library for Cassandra
Caffinitas Caffinitas is an advanced object mapper for Cassandra which has been especially designed to work with Datastax Java Driver 2.1+ against Cassandra 2.1, 2.0 or 1.2
Spring Data for Cassandra Spring Data for Cassandra offers a familiar interface to those who have used other Spring Data modules in the past
gocql 2,584 13 days ago Package gocql implements a fast and robust Cassandra client for the Go programming language

Awesome Cassandra / Packages / Tools

Hackolade Visual data modeling tool for NoSQL databases and stuctures like Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Graph DBs, JSON, APIs
JetBrains Datagrip DB IDE The Cross-Platform IDE for Databases & SQL by JetBrains, with support for Cassandra
Datastax - Management API for Cassandra 73 8 days ago The Management API is a sidecar service layer that attempts to build a well supported set of operational actions on Cassandra® nodes that can be administered centrally
DataStax OpsCenter Simplified management for DataStax Enterprise and Cassandra database clusters
CassandraCAS 2 4 months ago Compare-and-swap tool for Cassandra created by Datomic
Peloton 643 over 1 year ago Unified resource scheduler created by Uber. This tool can handle many nodes and clusters through resource management and scalability
Ansible-Galaxy: Cassandra GitHub 27 12 days ago Collection called cassandra that aims at providing all Ansible modules allowed to interact with Cassandra
Ansible-Galaxy: Cassandra Documentation for Ansible-Galaxy: Cassandra
Ansible-dse Set of Ansible playbooks that will build a Datastax Enterprise cluster
dseansible 10 almost 4 years ago DSE Installation and Upgrade Ansible Playbooks/Roles for Ubuntu Linux
DbSchema - Cassandra Designer DbSchema: Cassandra Diagram Designer & GUI Admin Tool which can do Cassandra amongst other databases
DBeaver - Free Universal Database Tool Third party tool for dealing with all sorts of databases including Cassandra
RazorSQL - Multi DB Manager Tool Multi-db tool for Linux, Mac, and Windows that works with Cassandra
Cassandra Reaper Automated repairs for Cassandra. Supports all versions
cstar perf 72 over 1 year ago Cassandra performance testing platform
Spark Cassandra Stress 25 over 1 year ago Tool for testing the DataStax Spark Connector against Cassandra or DSE
cqlmigrate 46 6 months ago Cassandra CQL migration tool. cqlmigrate is a library for performing schema migrations on a cassandra cluster
cassandra-migration-tool-java 98 over 2 years ago Cassandra migration tool for java is a lightweight tool used to execute schema and data migration on Cassandra database
Cassalog 14 over 6 years ago Cassalog is a schema change management library and tool for Cassandra that can be used with applications running on the JVM
cdeploy Cdeploy is a simple tool to manage your Cassandra schema migrations in the style of dbdeploy
Web: Cassandra Calculator Simple calculator to see how size / replication factor affect the system's consistency
Cassandra-web Web interface for Cassandra
CassanddraRestfulAPI 15 over 7 years ago CassandraRestfulAPI project exposes the cassandra data tables with the help of Restful API
Netflix: Staash 209 over 8 years ago Language-agnostic as well as storage-agnostic web interface for storing data into persistent storage systems, the metadata layer abstracts a lot of storage details and the pattern automation APIs take care of automating common data access patterns
cql-vim 36 over 2 years ago Cassandra CQL Syntax Highlighter for Vim
Presto Distributed SQL Query Engine for Big Data. Presto allows querying data where it lives, including Hive, Cassandra, relational databases or even proprietary data stores
SSTable Tools 162 over 7 years ago Toolkit for parsing, creating and doing other fun stuff with Cassandra 3.x SSTables
Cassandra-Exporter 48 5 months ago Simple Tool to Export / Import Cassandra Tables into JSON
Cassandra SStable Tools 95 7 days ago Multiple different tools combined into one that helps admins get summaries, metadata, partition info, cell info
Cassandra-Client 51 about 4 years ago Simple gui tool for browsing tables and data in Cassandra
CQL Data Modeler Very useful tool to test out a CQL schema and visualize what the partition would like in relationship to the columns and rows
Cassandra Snapshot Backup 6 over 7 years ago Quick and easy way to snapshot files in a Cassandra database and back them up using Ansible
Slothsandra 0 over 8 years ago Integration for Cassandra with the Slack app, which stores old messages that Slack no longer does itself
sandraREST 25 almost 7 years ago Cassandra manager with a web UI for RESTful APIs
Cassandra Leadership 7 about 8 years ago Library to help elect leaders using cassandra. Uses paxos to build a leadership election module
Terraform Cassandra 8 over 6 years ago Terraform module that creates a Cassandra cluster
Datadog Third party tool that allows monitoring and metrics for Cassandra nodes and clusters
tlp-cluster Provisioning tool for Cassandra designed for developers looking to benchmark and test Cassandra. It assists with builds and starting instances on AWS
Helenos 160 about 9 years ago Free web based environment that simplifies a data exploring & schema management with Cassandra database
ValuStor 54 about 6 years ago ValuStor is a key-value pair database solution
Cassandra-Migration 51 over 4 years ago Cassandra / DataStax Enterprise database migration (schema evolution) library
JanuesGraph-Utils 207 over 5 years ago Tool to Develop a graph database app
Scylla-Migrator 61 about 2 months ago Migrate data extract using Spark to Scylla, normally from Cassandra
Cassandra CA Manager 11 over 8 years ago Create and sign Java keystores
Zipkin 17,014 about 1 month ago Distributed tracing system
Instaclustr Kerberos plugin 5 over 1 year ago GSSAPI authentication provider for Cassandra
Instaclustr Java Driver for Kerberos 4 almost 4 years ago GSSAPI authentication provider for the Cassandra Java driver
Instaclustr Minotaur 7 4 months ago Command line tool for consistent rebuilding of a Cassandra cluster
Instaclustr TTL Remover 19 almost 2 years ago Command line tool for rewriting SSTables to remove TTLs
Instaclustr SSTable Generator 6 almost 2 years ago CLI tool for programmatic generation of Cassandra SSTables
Instaclustr Exporter 73 4 months ago Java agent that exports Cassandra metrics to Prometheus
Instaclustr Go Client for Instaclustr Icarus 4 over 3 years ago Go client for Instaclustr Icarus sidecar

Awesome Cassandra / Packages / Open Source Applications

Twissandra 808 over 4 years ago Twissandra is an example project, created to learn and demonstrate how to use Cassandra. Running the project will present a website that has similar functionality to Twitter
ChronoServer 2 over 8 years ago Test server for sampling how long it takes mobile & web clients to make various types of requests to a server doing common request patterns
Cassandra Cluster Admin 206 over 11 years ago Cassandra Cluster Admin is a GUI tool to help people administrate their Cassandra cluster
Cassandra-Tools Python Fabric scripts to help automate the launching and managing of cluster testing on AWS
Cassandra Opstools 56 over 9 years ago Generic scripts to review and monitor cassandra, from Spotify
CCM: Cassandra Cluster Manager) 1,216 about 2 months ago Script/library to create, launch and remove an Cassandra cluster on localhost
Netflix-Priam 1,037 9 days ago Co-Process for backup/recovery, Token Management, and Centralized Configuration management for Cassandra
CStar 255 11 months ago Cassandra cluster orchestration tool for the command line
CMB 276 almost 6 years ago Highly available, horizontally scalable queuing and notification service compatible with AWS SQS and SNS
CassieQ 51 over 8 years ago Distributed queue built off of Cassandra
Cherami Distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available message queue system
Scheduler 214 over 2 years ago Scala library for scheduling arbitrary code to run at an arbitrary time

Awesome Cassandra / Packages / Logging /Metrics

cassandra-log4j-appender 20 over 1 year ago Cassandra appenders for Log4j
Metrics Collector for Cassandra 111 7 months ago Metric collection and Dashboards for Cassandra (2.2, 3.0, 3.11, 4.0) clusters. Comes with dashboards for Graphana
Cassandra Log Tools 9 almost 6 years ago Simple scripts for working with Cassandra logs
Cassandra CFStats to CSV Parser 1 about 11 years ago Converts the output of CFStats to CSV
Cassandra Nagios 5 about 11 years ago Perl Based scripts to get metrics for monitoring using Jolokia
ctop 3 over 6 years ago Very simple console tool for monitoring column families read/write activities at remote cassandra host
Cassandra StatD Agent 13 about 9 years ago Java Agent for Cassandra integration with StatsD

Awesome Cassandra / Resources / Documentation

Cassandra Documentation Definitive documentation for all published versions
DataStax Documentation Documentation and Drivers from DataStax

Awesome Cassandra / Resources / Books

Cassandra: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition
Cassandra: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
Cassandra High Availability
Expert Apache Cassandra Administration

Awesome Cassandra / Resources / Courses

DataStax Academy Free online courses on Cassandra

Awesome Cassandra / Resources / Communities

Cassandra Users Mailing List
Cassandra Developers Mailing List
Cassandra Commits Mailing List
Apache Software Foundation Slack The #cassandra and #cassandra-dev channels are official slack channels migrating from IRC
Cassandra Slack
Stack Overflow: Cassandra
Stack Overflow: cql
Stack Overflow: spark-cassandra-connector
Stack Overflow: Astra DataStax - ASP.NET Core Answered question regarding connecting DataStax Astra and an ASP.NET Core API published to Microsoft Azure
Quora: Cassandra
Meetups: Cassandra

Awesome Cassandra / Resources / Blogs

Datastax DataStax, Inc. is a data management company that provides commercial support, software, and cloud database-as-a-service based on Cassandra
Codecentric: Cassandra Codecentric is an IT consulting company, these are their blog posts surrounding the topic of Cassandra
Pythian: Cassandra Pythian provides data and cloud-related services. The company provides services for Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Hadoop, Cassandra and other databases and their supporting infrastructure
Instaclustr Managed and supported open source solutions for Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch & Redis
OpenCredo:Cassandra OpenCredo is a consulting company that helps clients make informed decisions around cloud native and open source technologies, as well as public cloud services
DOAN DuyHai's Blog: Cassandra Duyhai Doan is a freelance big data and cloud architect who values sharing knowledge and contributing to the technology community
Amy Tobert Amy Tobert is a full-stack engineer & leader with passion for sustainable systems and people-centered leadership. Her blog details different Cassandra deployments amont other topics
Christopher Batey: Cassandra Christopher Batey is a software engineer of over 15 years and is a primary contributor to Akka and occasional contributor to Cassandra
Distributed Bytes: Cassandra Tim Ojo is the creator of Distributed Bytes and software engineer at Capital one. These are a collection of his posts surrounding the topic of Cassandra
The Netflix Tech Blog Learn about Netflix’s world class engineering efforts, company culture, product developments and more
Spotify R&D / Engineering Blog : Cassandra Cassandra related posts on Spotify's official technology blog
Ryan Svilha Ryan Svilha is a principle engineer at DataStax. His blog posts covers topics surround Cassandra and associated tools
Anant Anant builds and manages business platforms of which they connect customer experiences and information systems with real-time data platforms

Awesome Cassandra / Resources / Videos

Best Practices for Running Cassandra on AWS Joint webinar between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Stackdriver, an AWS Technology partner, to learn best practices that apply to storing, analyzing and managing queries that equate to over 1+ billion measurements a day
Monitoring Cassandra: Don't Miss a Thing (Alain Rodriguez, The Last Pickle) | C* Summit 2016 Talk given by Alain Rodriguez, Consultant at The Last Pickle, discussing what to monitor in Cassandra, how, and why
Tuning the Spark Cassandra Connector Great talk by Russell Spitzer maintainer of the Spark Cassandra connector
Cassandra.Lunch 10 over 1 year ago Collection of all past Cassandra.Lunch webinars including videos, slides, and Blog posts surrounding all topics Cassandra
Working with .NET and Cassandra/DataStax Enterprise Getting a C# .NET core application started to work against a Cassandra or DSE database

Awesome Cassandra / Resources / Slides

Cassandra DataTables Using Restful API How to create a performant API using Python / Flash
HAPI Cassandra 5 almost 10 years ago Simple REST API with hapi Node.js framework on top of a Cassandra database
GumGum: Multi-Region Cassandra in AWS Presentation that details how Gumgum scaled out from one local Cassandra datacenter to a multi-datacenter Cassandra cluster and all the problems they encountered and choices they made while implementing it
Hardening Cassandra for Compliance or Paranoia Includes details on configuring SSL, setting up a certificate authority and creating certificates and trust chains for the JVM
Securing Cassandra Ben Bromhead CTO of Instaclustr, will explore the various ways in which you can setup and secure Cassandra appropriately for your threat environment
Tuning the Spark Cassandra Connector Slides by Russell Spitzer maintainer of the Spark Cassandra connector

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