cassandra.yaml

Cluster Name

# The name of the cluster. This is mainly used to prevent machines in
# one logical cluster from joining another.
cluster_name: cluster1

Seed Nodes

Configure the first and fourth nodes in each data center to be your seed nodes: (Example IP’s Only)

- seeds: "172.16.0.1,172.16.0.4,172.16.1.1,172.16.1.4"

concurrent_* Configure the following concurrent_* values:

# For workloads with more data than can fit in memory, Cassandra's
# bottleneck will be reads that need to fetch data from
# disk. "concurrent_reads" should be set to (16 * number_of_drives) in
# order to allow the operations to enqueue low enough in the stack
# that the OS and drives can reorder them. Same applies to
# "concurrent_counter_writes", since counter writes read the current
# values before incrementing and writing them back.
#
# On the other hand, since writes are almost never IO bound, the ideal
# number of "concurrent_writes" is dependent on the number of cores in
# your system; (8 * number_of_cores) is a good rule of thumb.
concurrent_reads: 32 ← 1 SSD set to 16
concurrent_writes: 32  ← 8 cores set to 64
concurrent_counter_writes: 32

concurrent_compactors Configure the concurrent_compactors values:

# concurrent_compactors defaults to the smaller of (number of disks,
# number of cores), with a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 8.
#
# If your data directories are backed by SSD, you should increase this
# to the number of cores.
concurrent_compactors: 1 ← 8 cores set to 8

compaction_throughput_mb_per_sec Adjust based on actual sstable monitoring ratios:

# Throttles compaction to the given total throughput across the entire
# system. The faster you insert data, the faster you need to compact in
# order to keep the sstable count down, but in general, setting this to
# 16 to 32 times the rate you are inserting data is more than sufficient.
# Setting this to 0 disables throttling. Note that this account for all types
# of compaction, including validation compaction.
compaction_throughput_mb_per_sec: 16

inter_dc_stream_throughput_megabits_per_sec Adjust based on wan capacity:

# Throttles all streaming file transfer between the datacenters,
# this setting allows users to throttle inter dc stream throughput in addition
# to throttling all network stream traffic as configured with
# stream_throughput_outbound_megabits_per_sec
# When unset, the default is 200 Mbps or 25 MB/s
# inter_dc_stream_throughput_outbound_megabits_per_sec: 200

*_timeout

Adjust timeouts:

read_request_timeout_in_ms: 5000
range_request_timeout_in_ms: 10000
write_request_timeout_in_ms: 2000
counter_write_request_timeout_in_ms: 5000
cas_contention_timeout_in_ms: 1000
truncate_request_timeout_in_ms: 60000
request_timeout_in_ms: 10000
slow_query_log_timeout_in_ms: 500

internode_compression

# internode_compression controls whether traffic between nodes is compressed.
# Can be:
#
# all
#   all traffic is compressed
#
# dc
#   traffic between different datacenters is compressed
#
# none
#   nothing is compressed.
internode_compression: dc

gc_warn_threshold_in_ms Long stop the world gc pauses are bad, may want to adjust:

# GC Pauses greater than gc_warn_threshold_in_ms will be logged at WARN level
# Adjust the threshold based on your application throughput requirement
# By default, Cassandra logs GC Pauses greater than 200 ms at INFO level
gc_warn_threshold_in_ms: 1000