In Chapter 2, you learned how to install and configure a single-node Cassandra cluster. The idea behind starting with a simple one-node cluster was to get novices comfortable with the Cassandra terminology and learn the basics of starting and stopping Cassandra nodes.
The real strength of Cassandra, however, lies in its distributed architecture, so in this chapter, I show how to create and configure a multi-node cluster.
You’ll learn how to create, start, and stop a multi-node cluster, both with a single data center and multiple data centers. The chapter also ...