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Doraemon
Doraemon

Reputation: 109

YAML and JSON configuration files in Cassandra

I recently started working with Cassandra and am interested in knowing more about 2 files - cassandra_init.json which holds the list of keyspaces and column families and cassandra.yaml which seems to hold a bunch of configuration related fields. Can someone please elaborate why these files are needed and how these files are used/read by cassandra during startup. TIA!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 108

Answers (1)

Erick Ramirez
Erick Ramirez

Reputation: 16343

The cassandra.yaml file contains the configurable properties of the Cassandra database. At the very least, you would need to configure the following to bring up a minimum viable cluster:

cluster_name: your_cluster_name
seed_provider:
    - class_name: org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleSeedProvider
      parameters:
          - seeds: "127.0.0.1:7000"
listen_address: private_ip
rpc_address: public_ip

There isn't such a thing as cassandra_init.json which leads me to suspect that you don't have a standard Cassandra installation and is possibly running a forked distribution. Cheers!

Upvotes: 2

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