How to use sstableloader? - cassandra

i use Cassandra 3.4 on some centos 7 machines.
I have 2 clusters:
Cluster 1 with 2 DC , DC1 has 2 machines 192.168.0.171/192.168.172, DC2 has 1 machine 192.168.0.173. Cluster 1 has some data on it, on one keyspace with replication 2 : 1.
Cluster 2 with 1 datacenter , DC3 has 2 machines. 192.168.0.174/192.168.0.175.
On second cluster, DC3, I create the keyspace : "keyspace1" with NetworkTopologyStrategy : DC3 : 2.
Streamed some cassandra-stress on 192.168.0.175 :
cassandra-stress write n=1000000 -node 192.168.0.175.
In this moment cassandra-stress should generate some garbage data.
Checked the /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-97a771600d4011e69a5a13282caaa658 and there i have some ma-1-big-Data.db 57 Mb, ma-2-big-Data.db 65 Mb, ma-3-big-Data.db 65 Mb.
My question :
Let`s assume the garbage data is actual data and i want to stream from Cluster 2 this data into Cluster 1.
How can i do that by using sstableloader?
NOTE: Please give, if possible, example with commands ( i`m quite newbie in domain :( )

bin/sstableloader -d 192.168.0.171,192.168.172 /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-97a771600d4011e69a5a13282caaa658
this command will load data from one cluster to another cluster
Note: keyspace and table should exist in both clusters, and the tables should have the same schema.

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Cassandra : node become unavailable, while ingesting with Spark

After few successfully ingested data into Cassandra with Spark,
an error is now returned every time I try to ingest data with Spark (after few minutes or instantly) :
Caused by: com.datastax.oss.driver.api.core.AllNodesFailedException: Could not reach any contact point, make sure you've provided valid addresses
I checked with simple CQLSH (not Spark), and similar error is indeed returned too (2 nodes of 4) :
Connection error: ('Unable to connect to any servers', {'1.2.3.4': error(111, "Tried connecting to [('1.2.3.4', 9042)]. Last error: Connection refused")})
So basically, when I do ingestion into Cassandra with Spark, some nodes go down at some point. And I have to reboot the node, in order to access it again through cqlsh (and spark).
What is strange, is that it is still written "UP" for the given node when I run nodetool status, while cqlsh tells connection refused for that node.
I try to investigate logs, but I have a big problem : nothing in the logs, no single exception triggered server-side.
What to do in my case ? Why a node go down or become unresponsive in that case ? How to prevent it ?
Thanks
!!! edit !!!
Some of the details asked for, bellow :
Cassandra infrastructure :
network : 10 gbps
two datacenters : datacenter1 and datacenter2
4 nodes in each datacenter
2 replicas per datacenter :
CREATE KEYSPACE my_keyspace WITH replication = {'class': 'NetworkTopologyStrategy', 'datacenter1': '2', 'datacenter2': '2'} AND durable_writes = true;
consistency used for input and output : LOCAL_QUORUM
total physical memory per node : 128GB.
memory repartition per node : 64GB dedicated for each Cassandra instance, and 64GB dedicated for each Spark worker (colocated on each Cassandra node)
storage : 4 TB NVME for each node
Spark application config :
total executors cores : 24 cores (4 instances * 6 cores each)
total executors ram : 48 GB (4 instances * 8 GB each)
cassandra config on spark :
spark.sql.catalog.cassandra.spark.cassandra.output.batch.size.rows 1
spark.sql.catalog.cassandra.spark.cassandra.output.concurrent.writes 100
spark.sql.catalog.cassandra.spark.cassandra.output.batch.grouping.key none
spark.sql.catalog.cassandra.spark.cassandra.output.throughputMBPerSec 80
spark.sql.catalog.cassandra.spark.cassandra.output.consistency.level LOCAL_QUORUM
spark.sql.catalog.cassandra.spark.cassandra.output.metrics false
spark.sql.catalog.cassandra.spark.cassandra.connection.timeoutMS 90000
spark.sql.catalog.cassandra.spark.cassandra.query.retry.count 10
spark.sql.catalog.cassandra com.datastax.spark.connector.datasource.CassandraCatalog
spark.sql.extensions com.datastax.spark.connector.CassandraSparkExtensions
(2 nodes of 4)
Just curious, but what is the replication factor (RF) of the keyspace, and what consistency level is being used for the write operation?
I'll echo Alex, and say that usually this happens because Spark is writing faster than Cassandra can process. That leaves you with two options:
Increase the size of the cluster to handle the write load.
Throttle-back the write throughput of the Spark job.
One thing worth calling out:
2 replicas per datacenter
consistency used for input and output : LOCAL_QUORUM
So you'll probably get more throughput by dropping the write consistency to LOCAL_ONE.
Remember, quorum == RF / 2 + 1, which means LOCAL_QUORUM of 2 is 2.
So I do recommend dropping to LOCAL_ONE, because right now Spark is effectively operating # ALL consistency.
Which JMX indicators I need to care about ?
Can't remember the exact name of it, but if you can find the metric for disk IOPs or throughput, I wonder if it's hitting a threshold and plateauing.

Consistency level in cassandra issue

Environment :
5 machines Cassandra 2.1.15 cluster.
RF = 3, CL = QUORUM
1 machine goes down for more than 3 hours, without the possibility to bring it back
Decide to do noderemove and replace it :
The problem i saw is this :
Did heavy load over the node :
cassandra-stress write n=50000000 cl=QUORUM -rate threads=1000 -node 192.168.0.171,192.168.0.177,192.168.0.178,192.168.0.179,192.168.0.220
At one time gave me the error :
com.datastax.driver.core.exceptions.WriteTimeoutException: Cassandra timeout during write query at consistency QUORUM (3 replica were required but only 2 acknowledged the write)
According to my knowledge QUORUM = RF/2+1 rounded down => 2 replicas should be acquired.
Is this some kind of a bug!? Does it have some kind of negative impact?
Are you certain that cassandra-stress is using your keyspace? If you have not configured it to do so, it must be using default keyspace with replications as many as number of nodes. Try using -schema switch for cassandra-stress.
https://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/2.1/cassandra/tools/toolsCStress_t.html

Cassandra system.hints table is empty even when the one of the node is down

I am learning Cassandra from academy.datastax.com. I am trying the Replication and Consistency demo on local machine. RF = 3 and Consistency = 1.
When my Node3 is down and I am updating my table using update command, the SYSTEM.HINTS table is expected to store hint for node3 but it is always empty.
Do I need to make any configurational changes for hints to work or the defaults are ok?
surjanrawat$ ccm node1 nodetool getendpoints mykeyspace mytable 1
127.0.0.3
127.0.0.4
127.0.0.5
surjanrawat$ ccm status
Cluster: 'mycluster'
--------------------
node1: UP
node3: DOWN
node2: UP
node5: UP
node4: UP
cqlsh:mykeyspace> select * from system.hints ;
target_id | hint_id | message_version | mutation
-----------+---------+-----------------+----------
(0 rows)
Did you use the exact same version of Cassandra to create the cluster? Since version 3+ the hints are stored in the local filesystem of the coordinator. I ask this because the exact same thing happened to me during that Datastax demo (I used 3.0.3 instead of 2.1.5) I replayed the steps but with 2.1.5 and the hints where there in the table just as expected.
Came across this post as I ran into the same issue. Latest versions of cassandra don't store the hints in system.hints table. I am using cassandra 3.9 and the hints are stored in the file system.
It is configured in cassandra.yaml file.
# Directory where Cassandra should store hints.
# If not set, the default directory is $CASSANDRA_HOME/data/hints.
# hints_directory: /var/lib/cassandra/hints
In my case I was using ccm and I was able to find the hints at
${user_home}/.ccm/mycluster/node1/hints
where mycluster is my cluster name and node1 is my node name. Hope this helps someone.
In order to understand why no hints are being written you need a good grasp on how Cassandra replicates data.
A replication factor of 2 means two copies of each row, where each
copy is on a different node. All replicas are equally important; there
is no primary or master replica.
With a replication factor of 3 and 5 nodes in the cluster you could lose another node and still not store hints because your data replication strategy is still valid. Try killing two more nodes and then check the hints table.

Cassandra with DR DC has unexpected uneven data distribution

We are trying to provision a Cassandra cluster to use as a KV storage.
We are deploying a 3-node production cluster on our production DC, but we would also want to have a single node as a DR copy on our disaster recovery DC.
Using PropertyFileSnitch we have
10.1.1.1=DC1:R1
10.1.1.2=DC1:R1
10.1.1.3=DC1:R1
10.2.1.1=DC2:R1
We plan on using a keyspace with the following definition:
CREATE KEYSPACE "cassandraKV"
WITH REPLICATION = {'class' : 'NetworkTopologyStrategy', 'DC1' : 2, 'DC2' : 1};
In order to achieve the following:
2 replicas distributed among 3 nodes in DC1 (66% of total data per node) while still allowing a single node to go down without any data loss.
1 replica in DC2 (100% of total data per node)
We see the ownership distributed at 25% per node, while we would expect 33% on each node in DC1 and 100% in DC2.
Is this above configuration correct?
Thanks
My guess is that you ran nodetool Status without specifying the keyspace. This will end up just showing you the general distribution of the tokens in your cluster which will not be representative of your "cassandraKV" keyspace.
On running nodetool status "cassandraKV" you should see
Datacenter: DC1
10.1.1.1: 66%
10.1.1.2: 66%
10.1.1.3: 66%
Datacenter: DC2
10.2.1.1: 100%
You should see 66% for the DC1 nodes because each node holds 1 copy of it's primary range (33%) and one copy of whatever it is replicating (33%)
While DC2 has 100% of all the data you are currently holding.

cassandra replica exception HUnavailableException

I have a cassandra 2 datacenter pair with single replication with each datacenter containing a single node and each datacenter located on separate physical servers on the network. If one datacenter crashes, the other one will continue to be available for reads and writes I started up my java application, on a 3rd server, and everything it running ok. It's reading and writing to cassandra.
Next I disconnected, pulled the network cable, the 2nd datacenter server from the network.
I expected the application to continue running with no exceptions against the 1st datacenter, but that was not the case.
The following exception started to occur in the application:
me.prettyprint.hector.api.exceptions.HUnavailableException: : May not be enough replicas present to handle consistency level.
at me.prettyprint.cassandra.service.ExceptionsTranslatorImpl.translate(ExceptionsTranslatorImpl.java:60)
at me.prettyprint.cassandra.service.KeyspaceServiceImpl$9.execute(KeyspaceServiceImpl.java:354)
at me.prettyprint.cassandra.service.KeyspaceServiceImpl$9.execute(KeyspaceServiceImpl.java:343)
at me.prettyprint.cassandra.service.Operation.executeAndSetResult(Operation.java:101)
at me.prettyprint.cassandra.connection.HConnectionManager.operateWithFailover(HConnectionManager.java:232)
at me.prettyprint.cassandra.service.KeyspaceServiceImpl.operateWithFailover(KeyspaceServiceImpl.java:131)
at me.prettyprint.cassandra.service.KeyspaceServiceImpl.getSuperColumn(KeyspaceServiceImpl.java:360)
at me.prettyprint.cassandra.model.thrift.ThriftSuperColumnQuery$1.doInKeyspace(ThriftSuperColumnQuery.java:51)
at me.prettyprint.cassandra.model.thrift.ThriftSuperColumnQuery$1.doInKeyspace(ThriftSuperColumnQuery.java:45)
at me.prettyprint.cassandra.model.KeyspaceOperationCallback.doInKeyspaceAndMeasure(KeyspaceOperationCallback.java:20)
at me.prettyprint.cassandra.model.ExecutingKeyspace.doExecute(ExecutingKeyspace.java:85)
at me.prettyprint.cassandra.model.thrift.ThriftSuperColumnQuery.execute(ThriftSuperColumnQuery.java:44)
Once I reconnected the network cable to the 2nd server, the error stopped.
Here's more details on cassandra 1.0.10
1) Here's the following describe from cassandra on both datacenters
Keyspace: AdvancedAds:
Replication Strategy: org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy
Durable Writes: true
Options: [DC2:1, DC1:1]
2) I ran a node tool ring against each instance
./nodetool -h 111.111.111.111 -p 11000 ring
Address DC Rack Status State Load Owns Token
1
111.111.111.111 DC1 RAC1 # <-- usUp Normal 1.07 GB 100.00% 0
111.111.111.222 DC2 RAC1 Up Normal 1.1 GB 0.00% 1
./nodetool -h 111.111.111.222 ring -port 11000
Address DC Rack Status State Load Owns Token
1
111.111.111.111 DC1 RAC1 Up Normal 1.07 GB 100.00% 0
111.111.111.222 DC2 RAC1 # <-- usUp Normal 1.1 GB 0.00% 1
3) I checked the cassandra.yaml
the seeds are 111.111.111.111, 111.111.111.222
4) I checked the cassandra-topology.properties
111.111.111.111
# Cassandra Node IP=Data Center:Rack
# datacenter 1
111.111.111.111=DC1:RAC1 # <-- us
# datacenter 2
111.111.111.222=DC2:RAC1
default=DC1:r1
111.111.111.222
# Cassandra Node IP=Data Center:Rack
# datacenter 1
111.111.111.111=DC1:RAC1
# datacenter 2
111.111.111.222=DC2:RAC1 # <-- us
default=DC1:r1
5) we set the consistencyLevel to LOCAL_QUORUM in our java application as follows:
public Keyspace getKeyspace(final String keyspaceName, final String serverAddresses)
{
Keyspace ks = null;
Cluster c = clusterMap.get(serverAddresses);
if (c != null)
{
ConfigurableConsistencyLevel policy = new ConfigurableConsistencyLevel();
policy.setDefaultReadConsistencyLevel(consistencyLevel);
policy.setDefaultWriteConsistencyLevel(consistencyLevel);
// Create Keyspace
ks = HFactory.createKeyspace(keyspaceName, c, policy);
}
return ks;
}
I was told this configuration would work, but maybe I'm missing something.
Thanks for any insight
Hector is known to return spurious unavailable errors. The native protocol Java driver does not have this problem: https://github.com/datastax/java-driver
If you have only two nodes and your data would be placed on the node that is actually down, when the consistency is required, you may not be able to achieve full write availability. Cassandra would be achieving that with Hinted Handoff, but for the QUORUM consistency level the UnavailableException will be thrown anyway.
The same is true when requesting data belonging to the down node.
However it seems like your cluster is not well balanced. Your node 111.111.111.111 owns 100% and then 111.111.111.222 seem to own 0%, looking at your tokens they seem to be a reason for that.
Checkout how to set initial token here : http://www.datastax.com/docs/0.8/install/cluster_init#token-gen-cassandra
Additionally you may want to check Another Question, which contains answer with more reasons, when the situation like this may happen.
LOCAL_QUORUM won't work if you configure NetworkTopologyStrategy like this:
Options: [DC2:1, DC1:1] # this will make LOCAL_QUORUM and QUORUM fail always
LOCAL_QUORUM and (in my experience) QUORUM require data centers to have at least 2 replicas up. If you want a quorum spanning your data centers you have to set consistency level to data center agnostic TWO.
More examples:
Options: [DC2:3, DC1:1] # LOCAL_QUORUM for clients in DC2 works, QUORUM fails
Options: [DC2:2, DC1:1] # LOCAL_QUORUM in DC2 works, but down after 1 node failure
# QUORUM fails, TWO works.

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