Best practices for running Apache Cassandra with Amazon EBS
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This article provides best practices for running Apache Cassandra database on Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store). It discusses the advantages of using EBS over instance store drives for Cassandra, and how to optimize EBS performance for Cassandra workloads.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Amazon EBS volume options like gp3 and io2 Block Express, and their performance characteristics
- How Cassandra reads data from persistent storage, including sequential and random reads
- Performance monitoring tools like iostat, xfsdist, xfsslower, cachestat, and biolatency to analyze disk I/O
- Best practices for Cassandra on EBS, such as tuning readahead, compression settings, compaction throughput, and disk access mode
- Benchmarking tools like easy-cass-lab and easy-cass-stress to evaluate performance
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