Cassandra deployment architectures
This section describes the Cassandra deployment architectures supported by API Gateway.
Apache Cassandra is a highly scalable distributed NO-SQL database that provides high service availability.
Cassandra is required to store data for API Manager. You can optionally use Cassandra to store data for API Gateway components such as the Key Property Store (KPS), OAuth, and API keys.
For details on how to install the Cassandra database see Install an Apache Cassandra database.
This section describes the Cassandra deployment architectures supported by API Gateway.
Set up an Apache Cassandra database cluster for high availability (HA) of your API Gateway system.
Follow the best practices in this section to achieve a stable Apache Cassandra environment, and to prevent data integrity and performance issues.
Start or stop Cassandra manually or as a service.
Learn how to back up and restore Cassandra.
Perform the minimum essential operations that are required to maintain a healthy Apache Cassandra high availability (HA) cluster
Configure a Cassandra cluster with the setup-cassandra script.
Troubleshoot problems you might encounter when running Cassandra with API Gateway.