Scalability

Add a New Node

Each node in a Cassandra cluster has the same functionality

To add a new node, it needs:

• to have the same cluster name as the existing nodes in the cluster
• the IP addres (and network access) to at least one of the nodes in the existing cluster

A Network Connection

Common ports used in Cassandra:

• 7000 Cassandra intra-noed communnication
• 9042 Cassandra native binary protocol client
• 9160 Thrift client
• 7199 JMX monitoring