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-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-# contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
-# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache license, Version 2.0
-# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-# the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the license for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the license.
-
-# Cassandra storage config YAML
-
-# NOTE:
-#   See http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/StorageConfiguration for
-#   full explanations of configuration directives
-# /NOTE
-
-# The name of the cluster. This is mainly used to prevent machines in
-# one logical cluster from joining another.
-cluster_name: 'Test Cluster'
-
-# This defines the number of tokens randomly assigned to this node on the ring
-# The more tokens, relative to other nodes, the larger the proportion of data
-# that this node will store. You probably want all nodes to have the same number
-# of tokens assuming they have equal hardware capability.
-#
-# If you leave this unspecified, Cassandra will use the default of 1 token for legacy compatibility,
-# and will use the initial_token as described below.
-#
-# Specifying initial_token will override this setting on the node's initial start,
-# on subsequent starts, this setting will apply even if initial token is set.
-#
-# If you already have a cluster with 1 token per node, and wish to migrate to 
-# multiple tokens per node, see http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations
-num_tokens: 256
-
-# initial_token allows you to specify tokens manually.  While you can use # it with
-# vnodes (num_tokens > 1, above) -- in which case you should provide a 
-# comma-separated list -- it's primarily used when adding nodes # to legacy clusters 
-# that do not have vnodes enabled.
-# initial_token:
-
-# See http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/HintedHandoff
-# May either be "true" or "false" to enable globally, or contain a list
-# of data centers to enable per-datacenter.
-# hinted_handoff_enabled: DC1,DC2
-hinted_handoff_enabled: true
-# this defines the maximum amount of time a dead host will have hints
-# generated.  After it has been dead this long, new hints for it will not be
-# created until it has been seen alive and gone down again.
-max_hint_window_in_ms: 10800000 # 3 hours
-# Maximum throttle in KBs per second, per delivery thread.  This will be
-# reduced proportionally to the number of nodes in the cluster.  (If there
-# are two nodes in the cluster, each delivery thread will use the maximum
-# rate; if there are three, each will throttle to half of the maximum,
-# since we expect two nodes to be delivering hints simultaneously.)
-hinted_handoff_throttle_in_kb: 1024
-# Number of threads with which to deliver hints;
-# Consider increasing this number when you have multi-dc deployments, since
-# cross-dc handoff tends to be slower
-max_hints_delivery_threads: 2
-
-# Maximum throttle in KBs per second, total. This will be
-# reduced proportionally to the number of nodes in the cluster.
-batchlog_replay_throttle_in_kb: 1024
-
-# Authentication backend, implementing IAuthenticator; used to identify users
-# Out of the box, Cassandra provides org.apache.cassandra.auth.{AllowAllAuthenticator,
-# PasswordAuthenticator}.
-#
-# - AllowAllAuthenticator performs no checks - set it to disable authentication.
-# - PasswordAuthenticator relies on username/password pairs to authenticate
-#   users. It keeps usernames and hashed passwords in system_auth.credentials table.
-#   Please increase system_auth keyspace replication factor if you use this authenticator.
-#   If using PasswordAuthenticator, CassandraRoleManager must also be used (see below)
-authenticator: AllowAllAuthenticator
-
-# Authorization backend, implementing IAuthorizer; used to limit access/provide permissions
-# Out of the box, Cassandra provides org.apache.cassandra.auth.{AllowAllAuthorizer,
-# CassandraAuthorizer}.
-#
-# - AllowAllAuthorizer allows any action to any user - set it to disable authorization.
-# - CassandraAuthorizer stores permissions in system_auth.permissions table. Please
-#   increase system_auth keyspace replication factor if you use this authorizer.
-authorizer: AllowAllAuthorizer
-
-# Part of the Authentication & Authorization backend, implementing IRoleManager; used
-# to maintain grants and memberships between roles.
-# Out of the box, Cassandra provides org.apache.cassandra.auth.CassandraRoleManager,
-# which stores role information in the system_auth keyspace. Most functions of the
-# IRoleManager require an authenticated login, so unless the configured IAuthenticator
-# actually implements authentication, most of this functionality will be unavailable.
-#
-# - CassandraRoleManager stores role data in the system_auth keyspace. Please
-#   increase system_auth keyspace replication factor if you use this role manager.
-role_manager: CassandraRoleManager
-
-# Validity period for roles cache (fetching permissions can be an
-# expensive operation depending on the authorizer). Granted roles are cached for
-# authenticated sessions in AuthenticatedUser and after the period specified
-# here, become eligible for (async) reload.
-# Defaults to 2000, set to 0 to disable.
-# Will be disabled automatically for AllowAllAuthenticator.
-roles_validity_in_ms: 2000
-
-# Refresh interval for roles cache (if enabled).
-# After this interval, cache entries become eligible for refresh. Upon next
-# access, an async reload is scheduled and the old value returned until it
-# completes. If roles_validity_in_ms is non-zero, then this must be
-# also.
-# Defaults to the same value as roles_validity_in_ms.
-# roles_update_interval_in_ms: 1000
-
-# Validity period for permissions cache (fetching permissions can be an
-# expensive operation depending on the authorizer, CassandraAuthorizer is
-# one example). Defaults to 2000, set to 0 to disable.
-# Will be disabled automatically for AllowAllAuthorizer.
-permissions_validity_in_ms: 2000
-
-# Refresh interval for permissions cache (if enabled).
-# After this interval, cache entries become eligible for refresh. Upon next
-# access, an async reload is scheduled and the old value returned until it
-# completes. If permissions_validity_in_ms is non-zero, then this must be
-# also.
-# Defaults to the same value as permissions_validity_in_ms.
-# permissions_update_interval_in_ms: 1000
-
-# The partitioner is responsible for distributing groups of rows (by
-# partition key) across nodes in the cluster.  You should leave this
-# alone for new clusters.  The partitioner can NOT be changed without
-# reloading all data, so when upgrading you should set this to the
-# same partitioner you were already using.
-#
-# Besides Murmur3Partitioner, partitioners included for backwards
-# compatibility include RandomPartitioner, ByteOrderedPartitioner, and
-# OrderPreservingPartitioner.
-#
-partitioner: org.apache.cassandra.dht.Murmur3Partitioner
-
-# Directories where Cassandra should store data on disk.  Cassandra
-# will spread data evenly across them, subject to the granularity of
-# the configured compaction strategy.
-# If not set, the default directory is $CASSANDRA_HOME/data/data.
-# data_file_directories:
-#     - /var/lib/cassandra/data
-
-# commit log.  when running on magnetic HDD, this should be a
-# separate spindle than the data directories.
-# If not set, the default directory is $CASSANDRA_HOME/data/commitlog.
-# commitlog_directory: /var/lib/cassandra/commitlog
-
-# policy for data disk failures:
-# die: shut down gossip and client transports and kill the JVM for any fs errors or
-#      single-sstable errors, so the node can be replaced.
-# stop_paranoid: shut down gossip and client transports even for single-sstable errors,
-#                kill the JVM for errors during startup.
-# stop: shut down gossip and client transports, leaving the node effectively dead, but
-#       can still be inspected via JMX, kill the JVM for errors during startup.
-# best_effort: stop using the failed disk and respond to requests based on
-#              remaining available sstables.  This means you WILL see obsolete
-#              data at CL.ONE!
-# ignore: ignore fatal errors and let requests fail, as in pre-1.2 Cassandra
-disk_failure_policy: stop
-
-# policy for commit disk failures:
-# die: shut down gossip and Thrift and kill the JVM, so the node can be replaced.
-# stop: shut down gossip and Thrift, leaving the node effectively dead, but
-#       can still be inspected via JMX.
-# stop_commit: shutdown the commit log, letting writes collect but
-#              continuing to service reads, as in pre-2.0.5 Cassandra
-# ignore: ignore fatal errors and let the batches fail
-commit_failure_policy: stop
-
-# Maximum size of the key cache in memory.
-#
-# Each key cache hit saves 1 seek and each row cache hit saves 2 seeks at the
-# minimum, sometimes more. The key cache is fairly tiny for the amount of
-# time it saves, so it's worthwhile to use it at large numbers.
-# The row cache saves even more time, but must contain the entire row,
-# so it is extremely space-intensive. It's best to only use the
-# row cache if you have hot rows or static rows.
-#
-# NOTE: if you reduce the size, you may not get you hottest keys loaded on startup.
-#
-# Default value is empty to make it "auto" (min(5% of Heap (in MB), 100MB)). Set to 0 to disable key cache.
-key_cache_size_in_mb:
-
-# Duration in seconds after which Cassandra should
-# save the key cache. Caches are saved to saved_caches_directory as
-# specified in this configuration file.
-#
-# Saved caches greatly improve cold-start speeds, and is relatively cheap in
-# terms of I/O for the key cache. Row cache saving is much more expensive and
-# has limited use.
-#
-# Default is 14400 or 4 hours.
-key_cache_save_period: 14400
-
-# Number of keys from the key cache to save
-# Disabled by default, meaning all keys are going to be saved
-# key_cache_keys_to_save: 100
-
-# Row cache implementation class name.
-# Available implementations:
-#   org.apache.cassandra.cache.OHCProvider                Fully off-heap row cache implementation (default).
-#   org.apache.cassandra.cache.SerializingCacheProvider   This is the row cache implementation availabile
-#                                                         in previous releases of Cassandra.
-# row_cache_class_name: org.apache.cassandra.cache.OHCProvider
-
-# Maximum size of the row cache in memory.
-# Please note that OHC cache implementation requires some additional off-heap memory to manage
-# the map structures and some in-flight memory during operations before/after cache entries can be
-# accounted against the cache capacity. This overhead is usually small compared to the whole capacity.
-# Do not specify more memory that the system can afford in the worst usual situation and leave some
-# headroom for OS block level cache. Do never allow your system to swap.
-#
-# Default value is 0, to disable row caching.
-row_cache_size_in_mb: 0
-
-# Duration in seconds after which Cassandra should save the row cache.
-# Caches are saved to saved_caches_directory as specified in this configuration file.
-#
-# Saved caches greatly improve cold-start speeds, and is relatively cheap in
-# terms of I/O for the key cache. Row cache saving is much more expensive and
-# has limited use.
-#
-# Default is 0 to disable saving the row cache.
-row_cache_save_period: 0
-
-# Number of keys from the row cache to save.
-# Specify 0 (which is the default), meaning all keys are going to be saved
-# row_cache_keys_to_save: 100
-
-# Maximum size of the counter cache in memory.
-#
-# Counter cache helps to reduce counter locks' contention for hot counter cells.
-# In case of RF = 1 a counter cache hit will cause Cassandra to skip the read before
-# write entirely. With RF > 1 a counter cache hit will still help to reduce the duration
-# of the lock hold, helping with hot counter cell updates, but will not allow skipping
-# the read entirely. Only the local (clock, count) tuple of a counter cell is kept
-# in memory, not the whole counter, so it's relatively cheap.
-#
-# NOTE: if you reduce the size, you may not get you hottest keys loaded on startup.
-#
-# Default value is empty to make it "auto" (min(2.5% of Heap (in MB), 50MB)). Set to 0 to disable counter cache.
-# NOTE: if you perform counter deletes and rely on low gcgs, you should disable the counter cache.
-counter_cache_size_in_mb:
-
-# Duration in seconds after which Cassandra should
-# save the counter cache (keys only). Caches are saved to saved_caches_directory as
-# specified in this configuration file.
-#
-# Default is 7200 or 2 hours.
-counter_cache_save_period: 7200
-
-# Number of keys from the counter cache to save
-# Disabled by default, meaning all keys are going to be saved
-# counter_cache_keys_to_save: 100
-
-# saved caches
-# If not set, the default directory is $CASSANDRA_HOME/data/saved_caches.
-# saved_caches_directory: /var/lib/cassandra/saved_caches
-
-# commitlog_sync may be either "periodic" or "batch." 
-# 
-# When in batch mode, Cassandra won't ack writes until the commit log
-# has been fsynced to disk.  It will wait
-# commitlog_sync_batch_window_in_ms milliseconds between fsyncs.
-# This window should be kept short because the writer threads will
-# be unable to do extra work while waiting.  (You may need to increase
-# concurrent_writes for the same reason.)
-#
-# commitlog_sync: batch
-# commitlog_sync_batch_window_in_ms: 2
-#
-# the other option is "periodic" where writes may be acked immediately
-# and the CommitLog is simply synced every commitlog_sync_period_in_ms
-# milliseconds. 
-commitlog_sync: periodic
-commitlog_sync_period_in_ms: 10000
-
-# The size of the individual commitlog file segments.  A commitlog
-# segment may be archived, deleted, or recycled once all the data
-# in it (potentially from each columnfamily in the system) has been
-# flushed to sstables.  
-#
-# The default size is 32, which is almost always fine, but if you are
-# archiving commitlog segments (see commitlog_archiving.properties),
-# then you probably want a finer granularity of archiving; 8 or 16 MB
-# is reasonable.
-commitlog_segment_size_in_mb: 32
-
-# Compression to apply to the commit log. If omitted, the commit log
-# will be written uncompressed.  LZ4, Snappy, and Deflate compressors
-# are supported.
-#commitlog_compression:
-#   - class_name: LZ4Compressor
-#     parameters:
-#         -
-
-# any class that implements the SeedProvider interface and has a
-# constructor that takes a Map<String, String> of parameters will do.
-seed_provider:
-    # Addresses of hosts that are deemed contact points. 
-    # Cassandra nodes use this list of hosts to find each other and learn
-    # the topology of the ring.  You must change this if you are running
-    # multiple nodes!
-    - class_name: org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleSeedProvider
-      parameters:
-          # seeds is actually a comma-delimited list of addresses.
-          # Ex: "<ip1>,<ip2>,<ip3>"
-          - seeds: "127.0.0.1"
-
-# 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
-concurrent_writes: 32
-concurrent_counter_writes: 32
-
-# Total memory to use for sstable-reading buffers.  Defaults to
-# the smaller of 1/4 of heap or 512MB.
-# file_cache_size_in_mb: 512
-
-# Total permitted memory to use for memtables. Cassandra will stop 
-# accepting writes when the limit is exceeded until a flush completes,
-# and will trigger a flush based on memtable_cleanup_threshold
-# If omitted, Cassandra will set both to 1/4 the size of the heap.
-# memtable_heap_space_in_mb: 2048
-# memtable_offheap_space_in_mb: 2048
-
-# Ratio of occupied non-flushing memtable size to total permitted size
-# that will trigger a flush of the largest memtable. Larger mct will
-# mean larger flushes and hence less compaction, but also less concurrent
-# flush activity which can make it difficult to keep your disks fed
-# under heavy write load.
-#
-# memtable_cleanup_threshold defaults to 1 / (memtable_flush_writers + 1)
-# memtable_cleanup_threshold: 0.11
-
-# Specify the way Cassandra allocates and manages memtable memory.
-# Options are:
-#   heap_buffers:    on heap nio buffers
-#   offheap_buffers: off heap (direct) nio buffers
-#   offheap_objects: native memory, eliminating nio buffer heap overhead
-memtable_allocation_type: heap_buffers
-
-# Total space to use for commit logs on disk.
-#
-# If space gets above this value, Cassandra will flush every dirty CF
-# in the oldest segment and remove it.  So a small total commitlog space
-# will tend to cause more flush activity on less-active columnfamilies.
-#
-# The default value is the smaller of 8192, and 1/4 of the total space
-# of the commitlog volume.
-#
-# commitlog_total_space_in_mb: 8192
-
-# This sets the amount of memtable flush writer threads.  These will
-# be blocked by disk io, and each one will hold a memtable in memory
-# while blocked. 
-#
-# memtable_flush_writers 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.
-#memtable_flush_writers: 8
-
-# A fixed memory pool size in MB for for SSTable index summaries. If left
-# empty, this will default to 5% of the heap size. If the memory usage of
-# all index summaries exceeds this limit, SSTables with low read rates will
-# shrink their index summaries in order to meet this limit.  However, this
-# is a best-effort process. In extreme conditions Cassandra may need to use
-# more than this amount of memory.
-index_summary_capacity_in_mb:
-
-# How frequently index summaries should be resampled.  This is done
-# periodically to redistribute memory from the fixed-size pool to sstables
-# proportional their recent read rates.  Setting to -1 will disable this
-# process, leaving existing index summaries at their current sampling level.
-index_summary_resize_interval_in_minutes: 60
-
-# Whether to, when doing sequential writing, fsync() at intervals in
-# order to force the operating system to flush the dirty
-# buffers. Enable this to avoid sudden dirty buffer flushing from
-# impacting read latencies. Almost always a good idea on SSDs; not
-# necessarily on platters.
-trickle_fsync: false
-trickle_fsync_interval_in_kb: 10240
-
-# TCP port, for commands and data
-# For security reasons, you should not expose this port to the internet.  Firewall it if needed.
-storage_port: 7000
-
-# SSL port, for encrypted communication.  Unused unless enabled in
-# encryption_options
-# For security reasons, you should not expose this port to the internet.  Firewall it if needed.
-ssl_storage_port: 7001
-
-# Address or interface to bind to and tell other Cassandra nodes to connect to.
-# You _must_ change this if you want multiple nodes to be able to communicate!
-#
-# Set listen_address OR listen_interface, not both. Interfaces must correspond
-# to a single address, IP aliasing is not supported.
-#
-# Leaving it blank leaves it up to InetAddress.getLocalHost(). This
-# will always do the Right Thing _if_ the node is properly configured
-# (hostname, name resolution, etc), and the Right Thing is to use the
-# address associated with the hostname (it might not be).
-#
-# Setting listen_address to 0.0.0.0 is always wrong.
-#
-# If you choose to specify the interface by name and the interface has an ipv4 and an ipv6 address
-# you can specify which should be chosen using listen_interface_prefer_ipv6. If false the first ipv4
-# address will be used. If true the first ipv6 address will be used. Defaults to false preferring
-# ipv4. If there is only one address it will be selected regardless of ipv4/ipv6.
-listen_address: localhost
-# listen_interface: eth0
-# listen_interface_prefer_ipv6: false
-
-# Address to broadcast to other Cassandra nodes
-# Leaving this blank will set it to the same value as listen_address
-# broadcast_address: 1.2.3.4
-
-# When using multiple physical network interfaces, set this
-# to true to listen on broadcast_address in addition to
-# the listen_address, allowing nodes to communicate in both
-# interfaces.
-# Ignore this property if the network configuration automatically
-# routes  between the public and private networks such as EC2.
-# listen_on_broadcast_address: false
-
-# Internode authentication backend, implementing IInternodeAuthenticator;
-# used to allow/disallow connections from peer nodes.
-# internode_authenticator: org.apache.cassandra.auth.AllowAllInternodeAuthenticator
-
-# Whether to start the native transport server.
-# Please note that the address on which the native transport is bound is the
-# same as the rpc_address. The port however is different and specified below.
-start_native_transport: true
-# port for the CQL native transport to listen for clients on
-# For security reasons, you should not expose this port to the internet.  Firewall it if needed.
-native_transport_port: 9042
-# The maximum threads for handling requests when the native transport is used.
-# This is similar to rpc_max_threads though the default differs slightly (and
-# there is no native_transport_min_threads, idle threads will always be stopped
-# after 30 seconds).
-# native_transport_max_threads: 128
-#
-# The maximum size of allowed frame. Frame (requests) larger than this will
-# be rejected as invalid. The default is 256MB.
-# native_transport_max_frame_size_in_mb: 256
-
-# The maximum number of concurrent client connections.
-# The default is -1, which means unlimited.
-# native_transport_max_concurrent_connections: -1
-
-# The maximum number of concurrent client connections per source ip.
-# The default is -1, which means unlimited.
-# native_transport_max_concurrent_connections_per_ip: -1
-
-# Whether to start the thrift rpc server.
-start_rpc: false
-
-# The address or interface to bind the Thrift RPC service and native transport
-# server to.
-#
-# Set rpc_address OR rpc_interface, not both. Interfaces must correspond
-# to a single address, IP aliasing is not supported.
-#
-# Leaving rpc_address blank has the same effect as on listen_address
-# (i.e. it will be based on the configured hostname of the node).
-#
-# Note that unlike listen_address, you can specify 0.0.0.0, but you must also
-# set broadcast_rpc_address to a value other than 0.0.0.0.
-#
-# For security reasons, you should not expose this port to the internet.  Firewall it if needed.
-#
-# If you choose to specify the interface by name and the interface has an ipv4 and an ipv6 address
-# you can specify which should be chosen using rpc_interface_prefer_ipv6. If false the first ipv4
-# address will be used. If true the first ipv6 address will be used. Defaults to false preferring
-# ipv4. If there is only one address it will be selected regardless of ipv4/ipv6.
-rpc_address: localhost
-# rpc_interface: eth1
-# rpc_interface_prefer_ipv6: false
-
-# port for Thrift to listen for clients on
-rpc_port: 9160
-
-# RPC address to broadcast to drivers and other Cassandra nodes. This cannot
-# be set to 0.0.0.0. If left blank, this will be set to the value of
-# rpc_address. If rpc_address is set to 0.0.0.0, broadcast_rpc_address must
-# be set.
-# broadcast_rpc_address: 1.2.3.4
-
-# enable or disable keepalive on rpc/native connections
-rpc_keepalive: true
-
-# Cassandra provides two out-of-the-box options for the RPC Server:
-#
-# sync  -> One thread per thrift connection. For a very large number of clients, memory
-#          will be your limiting factor. On a 64 bit JVM, 180KB is the minimum stack size
-#          per thread, and that will correspond to your use of virtual memory (but physical memory
-#          may be limited depending on use of stack space).
-#
-# hsha  -> Stands for "half synchronous, half asynchronous." All thrift clients are handled
-#          asynchronously using a small number of threads that does not vary with the amount
-#          of thrift clients (and thus scales well to many clients). The rpc requests are still
-#          synchronous (one thread per active request). If hsha is selected then it is essential
-#          that rpc_max_threads is changed from the default value of unlimited.
-#
-# The default is sync because on Windows hsha is about 30% slower.  On Linux,
-# sync/hsha performance is about the same, with hsha of course using less memory.
-#
-# Alternatively,  can provide your own RPC server by providing the fully-qualified class name
-# of an o.a.c.t.TServerFactory that can create an instance of it.
-rpc_server_type: sync
-
-# Uncomment rpc_min|max_thread to set request pool size limits.
-#
-# Regardless of your choice of RPC server (see above), the number of maximum requests in the
-# RPC thread pool dictates how many concurrent requests are possible (but if you are using the sync
-# RPC server, it also dictates the number of clients that can be connected at all).
-#
-# The default is unlimited and thus provides no protection against clients overwhelming the server. You are
-# encouraged to set a maximum that makes sense for you in production, but do keep in mind that
-# rpc_max_threads represents the maximum number of client requests this server may execute concurrently.
-#
-# rpc_min_threads: 16
-# rpc_max_threads: 2048
-
-# uncomment to set socket buffer sizes on rpc connections
-# rpc_send_buff_size_in_bytes:
-# rpc_recv_buff_size_in_bytes:
-
-# Uncomment to set socket buffer size for internode communication
-# Note that when setting this, the buffer size is limited by net.core.wmem_max
-# and when not setting it it is defined by net.ipv4.tcp_wmem
-# See:
-# /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_max
-# /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max
-# /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem
-# /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem
-# and: man tcp
-# internode_send_buff_size_in_bytes:
-# internode_recv_buff_size_in_bytes:
-
-# Frame size for thrift (maximum message length).
-thrift_framed_transport_size_in_mb: 15
-
-# Set to true to have Cassandra create a hard link to each sstable
-# flushed or streamed locally in a backups/ subdirectory of the
-# keyspace data.  Removing these links is the operator's
-# responsibility.
-incremental_backups: false
-
-# Whether or not to take a snapshot before each compaction.  Be
-# careful using this option, since Cassandra won't clean up the
-# snapshots for you.  Mostly useful if you're paranoid when there
-# is a data format change.
-snapshot_before_compaction: false
-
-# Whether or not a snapshot is taken of the data before keyspace truncation
-# or dropping of column families. The STRONGLY advised default of true 
-# should be used to provide data safety. If you set this flag to false, you will
-# lose data on truncation or drop.
-auto_snapshot: true
-
-# When executing a scan, within or across a partition, we need to keep the
-# tombstones seen in memory so we can return them to the coordinator, which
-# will use them to make sure other replicas also know about the deleted rows.
-# With workloads that generate a lot of tombstones, this can cause performance
-# problems and even exaust the server heap.
-# (http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/cassandra-anti-patterns-queues-and-queue-like-datasets)
-# Adjust the thresholds here if you understand the dangers and want to
-# scan more tombstones anyway.  These thresholds may also be adjusted at runtime
-# using the StorageService mbean.
-tombstone_warn_threshold: 1000
-tombstone_failure_threshold: 100000
-
-# Granularity of the collation index of rows within a partition.
-# Increase if your rows are large, or if you have a very large
-# number of rows per partition.  The competing goals are these:
-#   1) a smaller granularity means more index entries are generated
-#      and looking up rows withing the partition by collation column
-#      is faster
-#   2) but, Cassandra will keep the collation index in memory for hot
-#      rows (as part of the key cache), so a larger granularity means
-#      you can cache more hot rows
-column_index_size_in_kb: 64
-
-
-# Log WARN on any batch size exceeding this value. 5kb per batch by default.
-# Caution should be taken on increasing the size of this threshold as it can lead to node instability.
-batch_size_warn_threshold_in_kb: 5
-
-# Fail any batch exceeding this value. 50kb (10x warn threshold) by default.
-batch_size_fail_threshold_in_kb: 50
-
-# Log WARN on any batches not of type LOGGED than span across more partitions than this limit
-unlogged_batch_across_partitions_warn_threshold: 10
-
-# Number of simultaneous compactions to allow, NOT including
-# validation "compactions" for anti-entropy repair.  Simultaneous
-# compactions can help preserve read performance in a mixed read/write
-# workload, by mitigating the tendency of small sstables to accumulate
-# during a single long running compactions. The default is usually
-# fine and if you experience problems with compaction running too
-# slowly or too fast, you should look at
-# compaction_throughput_mb_per_sec first.
-#
-# 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
-
-# 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
-
-# Log a warning when compacting partitions larger than this value
-compaction_large_partition_warning_threshold_mb: 100
-
-# When compacting, the replacement sstable(s) can be opened before they
-# are completely written, and used in place of the prior sstables for
-# any range that has been written. This helps to smoothly transfer reads 
-# between the sstables, reducing page cache churn and keeping hot rows hot
-sstable_preemptive_open_interval_in_mb: 50
-
-# Throttles all outbound streaming file transfers on this node to the
-# given total throughput in Mbps. This is necessary because Cassandra does
-# mostly sequential IO when streaming data during bootstrap or repair, which
-# can lead to saturating the network connection and degrading rpc performance.
-# When unset, the default is 200 Mbps or 25 MB/s.
-# stream_throughput_outbound_megabits_per_sec: 200
-
-# 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
-
-# How long the coordinator should wait for read operations to complete
-read_request_timeout_in_ms: 5000
-# How long the coordinator should wait for seq or index scans to complete
-range_request_timeout_in_ms: 10000
-# How long the coordinator should wait for writes to complete
-write_request_timeout_in_ms: 2000
-# How long the coordinator should wait for counter writes to complete
-counter_write_request_timeout_in_ms: 5000
-# How long a coordinator should continue to retry a CAS operation
-# that contends with other proposals for the same row
-cas_contention_timeout_in_ms: 1000
-# How long the coordinator should wait for truncates to complete
-# (This can be much longer, because unless auto_snapshot is disabled
-# we need to flush first so we can snapshot before removing the data.)
-truncate_request_timeout_in_ms: 60000
-# The default timeout for other, miscellaneous operations
-request_timeout_in_ms: 10000
-
-# Enable operation timeout information exchange between nodes to accurately
-# measure request timeouts.  If disabled, replicas will assume that requests
-# were forwarded to them instantly by the coordinator, which means that
-# under overload conditions we will waste that much extra time processing 
-# already-timed-out requests.
-#
-# Warning: before enabling this property make sure to ntp is installed
-# and the times are synchronized between the nodes.
-cross_node_timeout: false
-
-# Set socket timeout for streaming operation.
-# The stream session is failed if no data/ack is received by any of the participants
-# within that period, which means this should also be sufficient to stream a large
-# sstable or rebuild table indexes.
-# Default value is 86400000ms, which means stale streams timeout after 24 hours.
-# A value of zero means stream sockets should never time out.
-# streaming_socket_timeout_in_ms: 86400000
-
-# phi value that must be reached for a host to be marked down.
-# most users should never need to adjust this.
-# phi_convict_threshold: 8
-
-# endpoint_snitch -- Set this to a class that implements
-# IEndpointSnitch.  The snitch has two functions:
-# - it teaches Cassandra enough about your network topology to route
-#   requests efficiently
-# - it allows Cassandra to spread replicas around your cluster to avoid
-#   correlated failures. It does this by grouping machines into
-#   "datacenters" and "racks."  Cassandra will do its best not to have
-#   more than one replica on the same "rack" (which may not actually
-#   be a physical location)
-#
-# CASSANDRA WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO SWITCH TO AN INCOMPATIBLE SNITCH
-# ONCE DATA IS INSERTED INTO THE CLUSTER.  This would cause data loss.
-# This means that if you start with the default SimpleSnitch, which
-# locates every node on "rack1" in "datacenter1", your only options
-# if you need to add another datacenter are GossipingPropertyFileSnitch
-# (and the older PFS).  From there, if you want to migrate to an
-# incompatible snitch like Ec2Snitch you can do it by adding new nodes
-# under Ec2Snitch (which will locate them in a new "datacenter") and
-# decommissioning the old ones.
-#
-# Out of the box, Cassandra provides
-#  - SimpleSnitch:
-#    Treats Strategy order as proximity. This can improve cache
-#    locality when disabling read repair.  Only appropriate for
-#    single-datacenter deployments.
-#  - GossipingPropertyFileSnitch
-#    This should be your go-to snitch for production use.  The rack
-#    and datacenter for the local node are defined in
-#    cassandra-rackdc.properties and propagated to other nodes via
-#    gossip.  If cassandra-topology.properties exists, it is used as a
-#    fallback, allowing migration from the PropertyFileSnitch.
-#  - PropertyFileSnitch:
-#    Proximity is determined by rack and data center, which are
-#    explicitly configured in cassandra-topology.properties.
-#  - Ec2Snitch:
-#    Appropriate for EC2 deployments in a single Region. Loads Region
-#    and Availability Zone information from the EC2 API. The Region is
-#    treated as the datacenter, and the Availability Zone as the rack.
-#    Only private IPs are used, so this will not work across multiple
-#    Regions.
-#  - Ec2MultiRegionSnitch:
-#    Uses public IPs as broadcast_address to allow cross-region
-#    connectivity.  (Thus, you should set seed addresses to the public
-#    IP as well.) You will need to open the storage_port or
-#    ssl_storage_port on the public IP firewall.  (For intra-Region
-#    traffic, Cassandra will switch to the private IP after
-#    establishing a connection.)
-#  - RackInferringSnitch:
-#    Proximity is determined by rack and data center, which are
-#    assumed to correspond to the 3rd and 2nd octet of each node's IP
-#    address, respectively.  Unless this happens to match your
-#    deployment conventions, this is best used as an example of
-#    writing a custom Snitch class and is provided in that spirit.
-#
-# You can use a custom Snitch by setting this to the full class name
-# of the snitch, which will be assumed to be on your classpath.
-endpoint_snitch: SimpleSnitch
-
-# controls how often to perform the more expensive part of host score
-# calculation
-dynamic_snitch_update_interval_in_ms: 100 
-# controls how often to reset all host scores, allowing a bad host to
-# possibly recover
-dynamic_snitch_reset_interval_in_ms: 600000
-# if set greater than zero and read_repair_chance is < 1.0, this will allow
-# 'pinning' of replicas to hosts in order to increase cache capacity.
-# The badness threshold will control how much worse the pinned host has to be
-# before the dynamic snitch will prefer other replicas over it.  This is
-# expressed as a double which represents a percentage.  Thus, a value of
-# 0.2 means Cassandra would continue to prefer the static snitch values
-# until the pinned host was 20% worse than the fastest.
-dynamic_snitch_badness_threshold: 0.1
-
-# request_scheduler -- Set this to a class that implements
-# RequestScheduler, which will schedule incoming client requests
-# according to the specific policy. This is useful for multi-tenancy
-# with a single Cassandra cluster.
-# NOTE: This is specifically for requests from the client and does
-# not affect inter node communication.
-# org.apache.cassandra.scheduler.NoScheduler - No scheduling takes place
-# org.apache.cassandra.scheduler.RoundRobinScheduler - Round robin of
-# client requests to a node with a separate queue for each
-# request_scheduler_id. The scheduler is further customized by
-# request_scheduler_options as described below.
-request_scheduler: org.apache.cassandra.scheduler.NoScheduler
-
-# Scheduler Options vary based on the type of scheduler
-# NoScheduler - Has no options
-# RoundRobin
-#  - throttle_limit -- The throttle_limit is the number of in-flight
-#                      requests per client.  Requests beyond 
-#                      that limit are queued up until
-#                      running requests can complete.
-#                      The value of 80 here is twice the number of
-#                      concurrent_reads + concurrent_writes.
-#  - default_weight -- default_weight is optional and allows for
-#                      overriding the default which is 1.
-#  - weights -- Weights are optional and will default to 1 or the
-#               overridden default_weight. The weight translates into how
-#               many requests are handled during each turn of the
-#               RoundRobin, based on the scheduler id.
-#
-# request_scheduler_options:
-#    throttle_limit: 80
-#    default_weight: 5
-#    weights:
-#      Keyspace1: 1
-#      Keyspace2: 5
-
-# request_scheduler_id -- An identifier based on which to perform
-# the request scheduling. Currently the only valid option is keyspace.
-# request_scheduler_id: keyspace
-
-# Enable or disable inter-node encryption
-# Default settings are TLS v1, RSA 1024-bit keys (it is imperative that
-# users generate their own keys) TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA as the cipher
-# suite for authentication, key exchange and encryption of the actual data transfers.
-# Use the DHE/ECDHE ciphers if running in FIPS 140 compliant mode.
-# NOTE: No custom encryption options are enabled at the moment
-# The available internode options are : all, none, dc, rack
-#
-# If set to dc cassandra will encrypt the traffic between the DCs
-# If set to rack cassandra will encrypt the traffic between the racks
-#
-# The passwords used in these options must match the passwords used when generating
-# the keystore and truststore.  For instructions on generating these files, see:
-# http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/security/jsse/JSSERefGuide.html#CreateKeystore
-#
-server_encryption_options:
-    internode_encryption: none
-    keystore: conf/.keystore
-    keystore_password: cassandra
-    truststore: conf/.truststore
-    truststore_password: cassandra
-    # More advanced defaults below:
-    # protocol: TLS
-    # algorithm: SunX509
-    # store_type: JKS
-    # cipher_suites: [TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA]
-    # require_client_auth: false
-
-# enable or disable client/server encryption.
-client_encryption_options:
-    enabled: false
-    # If enabled and optional is set to true encrypted and unencrypted connections are handled.
-    optional: false
-    keystore: conf/.keystore
-    keystore_password: cassandra
-    # require_client_auth: false
-    # Set trustore and truststore_password if require_client_auth is true
-    # truststore: conf/.truststore
-    # truststore_password: cassandra
-    # More advanced defaults below:
-    # protocol: TLS
-    # algorithm: SunX509
-    # store_type: JKS
-    # cipher_suites: [TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA]
-
-# 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: all
-
-# Enable or disable tcp_nodelay for inter-dc communication.
-# Disabling it will result in larger (but fewer) network packets being sent,
-# reducing overhead from the TCP protocol itself, at the cost of increasing
-# latency if you block for cross-datacenter responses.
-inter_dc_tcp_nodelay: false
-
-# TTL for different trace types used during logging of the repair process.
-tracetype_query_ttl: 86400
-tracetype_repair_ttl: 604800
-
-# By default, Cassandra logs GC Pauses greater than 200 ms at INFO level
-# This threshold can be adjusted to minimize logging if necessary
-# gc_log_threshold_in_ms: 200
-
-# GC Pauses greater than gc_warn_threshold_in_ms will be logged at WARN level
-# If unset, all GC Pauses greater than gc_log_threshold_in_ms will log at
-# INFO level
-# Adjust the threshold based on your application throughput requirement
-# gc_warn_threshold_in_ms: 1000
-
-# UDFs (user defined functions) are disabled by default.
-# As of Cassandra 2.2, there is no security manager or anything else in place that
-# prevents execution of evil code. CASSANDRA-9402 will fix this issue for Cassandra 3.0.
-# This will inherently be backwards-incompatible with any 2.2 UDF that perform insecure
-# operations such as opening a socket or writing to the filesystem.
-enable_user_defined_functions: false
-
-# The default Windows kernel timer and scheduling resolution is 15.6ms for power conservation.
-# Lowering this value on Windows can provide much tighter latency and better throughput, however
-# some virtualized environments may see a negative performance impact from changing this setting
-# below their system default. The sysinternals 'clockres' tool can confirm your system's default
-# setting.
-windows_timer_interval: 1

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/logging-log4j2/blob/d3f9719f/pom.xml
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diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f27af6f..739c090 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1291,6 +1291,7 @@
     <module>log4j-osgi</module>
     <module>log4j-bom</module>
     <module>log4j-nosql</module>
+    <module>log4j-cassandra</module>
     <module>log4j-web</module>
     <module>log4j-perf</module>
     <module>log4j-iostreams</module>

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/logging-log4j2/blob/d3f9719f/src/site/xdoc/runtime-dependencies.xml
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diff --git a/src/site/xdoc/runtime-dependencies.xml b/src/site/xdoc/runtime-dependencies.xml
index cdcea86..e319c34 100644
--- a/src/site/xdoc/runtime-dependencies.xml
+++ b/src/site/xdoc/runtime-dependencies.xml
@@ -126,6 +126,11 @@
             <td>Automatic Module</td>
           </tr>
           <tr>
+            <td>log4j-cassandra</td>
+            <td>org.apache.logging.log4j.cassandra</td>
+            <td>Automatic Module</td>
+          </tr>
+          <tr>
             <td>log4j-osgi</td>
             <td>org.apache.logging.log4j.osgi</td>
             <td>Automatic Module. Unclear how OSGi will support Java modules.</td>
@@ -258,7 +263,7 @@
         </tr>
         <tr>
           <td>Cassandra Appender</td>
-          <td>Datastax Cassandra driver and Log4j NoSQL library</td>
+          <td>Datastax Cassandra driver and Log4j Cassandra library</td>
         </tr>
         <tr>
           <td>Bzip2, Deflate, Pack200, and XZ compression on rollover</td>
@@ -387,6 +392,13 @@
         </tr>
       </table>
 
+      <a name="log4j-cassandra" />
+      <h4>log4j-cassandra</h4>
+      <p>
+        The Log4J <a href="log4j-cassandra/index.html">Cassandra</a> module has depends on
+        the <a href="http://docs.datastax.com/en/developer/driver-matrix/doc/javaDrivers.html">Datastax Cassandra driver</a>.
+      </p>
+
       <a name="log4j-iostreams" />
       <h4>log4j-iostreams</h4>
       <p>


[3/3] logging-log4j2 git commit: LOG4J2-2076 Cassandra appender in own module

Posted by mi...@apache.org.
LOG4J2-2076 Cassandra appender in own module


Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/logging-log4j2/repo
Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/logging-log4j2/commit/d3f9719f
Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/logging-log4j2/tree/d3f9719f
Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/logging-log4j2/diff/d3f9719f

Branch: refs/heads/LOG4J2-2076
Commit: d3f9719f9434abb82ec06c7c4eefc06c72d710bf
Parents: ff5e664
Author: Mikael Ståldal <mi...@staldal.nu>
Authored: Mon Oct 16 22:01:28 2017 +0200
Committer: Mikael Ståldal <mi...@staldal.nu>
Committed: Mon Oct 16 22:03:33 2017 +0200

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 log4j-cassandra/pom.xml                         | 200 ++++
 .../appender/cassandra/CassandraAppender.java   | 185 ++++
 .../appender/cassandra/CassandraManager.java    | 218 +++++
 .../cassandra/ClockTimestampGenerator.java      |  34 +
 .../nosql/appender/cassandra/package-info.java  |  23 +
 log4j-cassandra/src/site/markdown/index.md.vm   |  24 +
 log4j-cassandra/src/site/site.xml               |  52 ++
 .../appender/cassandra/CassandraAppenderIT.java |  96 ++
 .../nosql/appender/cassandra/CassandraRule.java | 141 +++
 .../test/resources/CassandraAppenderTest.xml    |  40 +
 .../src/test/resources/cassandra.yaml           | 901 +++++++++++++++++++
 log4j-nosql/pom.xml                             |  19 +-
 .../appender/cassandra/CassandraAppender.java   | 185 ----
 .../appender/cassandra/CassandraManager.java    | 218 -----
 .../cassandra/ClockTimestampGenerator.java      |  34 -
 .../nosql/appender/cassandra/package-info.java  |  23 -
 log4j-nosql/src/site/markdown/index.md.vm       |   2 -
 .../appender/cassandra/CassandraAppenderIT.java |  96 --
 .../nosql/appender/cassandra/CassandraRule.java | 141 ---
 .../test/resources/CassandraAppenderTest.xml    |  40 -
 log4j-nosql/src/test/resources/cassandra.yaml   | 901 -------------------
 pom.xml                                         |   1 +
 src/site/xdoc/runtime-dependencies.xml          |  14 +-
 23 files changed, 1929 insertions(+), 1659 deletions(-)
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http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/logging-log4j2/blob/d3f9719f/log4j-cassandra/pom.xml
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diff --git a/log4j-cassandra/pom.xml b/log4j-cassandra/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9fab242
--- /dev/null
+++ b/log4j-cassandra/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,200 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+  ~ contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+  ~ The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+  ~ the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  ~
+  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  ~
+  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  ~ limitations under the License.
+  -->
+
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+    <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
+    <version>2.10.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  </parent>
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+  <artifactId>log4j-cassandra</artifactId>
+  <name>Apache Log4j Cassandra</name>
+  <description>
+    Cassandra appender for Log4j.
+  </description>
+  <properties>
+    <log4jParentDir>${basedir}/..</log4jParentDir>
+    <docLabel>Cassandra Documentation</docLabel>
+    <projectDir>/log4j-cassandra</projectDir>
+    <module.name>org.apache.logging.log4j.cassandra</module.name>
+  </properties>
+
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+      <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.datastax.cassandra</groupId>
+      <artifactId>cassandra-driver-core</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <!-- Test Dependencies -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>junit</groupId>
+      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
+      <artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+      <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
+      <type>test-jar</type>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+      <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
+      <type>test-jar</type>
+    </dependency>
+    <!-- Cassandra appender integration testing -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.cassandra</groupId>
+      <artifactId>cassandra-all</artifactId>
+      <version>2.2.8</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+      <exclusions>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
+          <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
+          <artifactId>logback-core</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+      </exclusions>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+      <artifactId>log4j-slf4j-impl</artifactId>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>
+        <configuration>
+          <instructions>
+            <Fragment-Host>org.apache.logging.log4j.core</Fragment-Host>
+            <Export-Package>*</Export-Package>
+          </instructions>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+  <reporting>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-changes-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>${changes.plugin.version}</version>
+        <reportSets>
+          <reportSet>
+            <reports>
+              <report>changes-report</report>
+            </reports>
+          </reportSet>
+        </reportSets>
+        <configuration>
+          <issueLinkTemplate>%URL%/show_bug.cgi?id=%ISSUE%</issueLinkTemplate>
+          <useJql>true</useJql>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>${checkstyle.plugin.version}</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <!--<propertiesLocation>${vfs.parent.dir}/checkstyle.properties</propertiesLocation> -->
+          <configLocation>${log4jParentDir}/checkstyle.xml</configLocation>
+          <suppressionsLocation>${log4jParentDir}/checkstyle-suppressions.xml</suppressionsLocation>
+          <enableRulesSummary>false</enableRulesSummary>
+          <propertyExpansion>basedir=${basedir}</propertyExpansion>
+          <propertyExpansion>licensedir=${log4jParentDir}/checkstyle-header.txt</propertyExpansion>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>${javadoc.plugin.version}</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <bottom><![CDATA[<p align="center">Copyright &#169; {inceptionYear}-{currentYear} {organizationName}. All Rights Reserved.<br />
+            Apache Logging, Apache Log4j, Log4j, Apache, the Apache feather logo, the Apache Logging project logo,
+            and the Apache Log4j logo are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation.</p>]]></bottom>
+          <!-- module link generation is completely broken in the javadoc plugin for a multi-module non-aggregating
+               project -->
+          <detectOfflineLinks>false</detectOfflineLinks>
+          <linksource>true</linksource>
+        </configuration>
+        <reportSets>
+          <reportSet>
+            <id>non-aggregate</id>
+            <reports>
+              <report>javadoc</report>
+            </reports>
+          </reportSet>
+        </reportSets>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+        <artifactId>findbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>${findbugs.plugin.version}</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <fork>true</fork>
+          <jvmArgs>-Duser.language=en</jvmArgs>
+          <threshold>Normal</threshold>
+          <effort>Default</effort>
+          <excludeFilterFile>${log4jParentDir}/findbugs-exclude-filter.xml</excludeFilterFile>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-jxr-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>${jxr.plugin.version}</version>
+        <reportSets>
+          <reportSet>
+            <id>non-aggregate</id>
+            <reports>
+              <report>jxr</report>
+            </reports>
+          </reportSet>
+          <reportSet>
+            <id>aggregate</id>
+            <reports>
+              <report>aggregate</report>
+            </reports>
+          </reportSet>
+        </reportSets>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-pmd-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>${pmd.plugin.version}</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <targetJdk>${maven.compiler.target}</targetJdk>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </reporting>
+</project>

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache license, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the license for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the license.
+ */
+package org.apache.logging.log4j.nosql.appender.cassandra;
+
+import com.datastax.driver.core.BatchStatement;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.Core;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.Filter;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.AbstractAppender;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.db.AbstractDatabaseAppender;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.db.ColumnMapping;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.Plugin;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.PluginBuilderAttribute;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.PluginBuilderFactory;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.PluginElement;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.validation.constraints.Required;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.net.SocketAddress;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.util.Clock;
+
+/**
+ * Appender plugin that uses a Cassandra database.
+ *
+ * @see SocketAddress
+ * @see ColumnMapping
+ */
+@Plugin(name = "Cassandra", category = Core.CATEGORY_NAME, elementType = CassandraAppender.ELEMENT_TYPE, printObject = true)
+public class CassandraAppender extends AbstractDatabaseAppender<CassandraManager> {
+
+    private CassandraAppender(final String name, final Filter filter, final boolean ignoreExceptions,
+                              final CassandraManager manager) {
+        super(name, filter, ignoreExceptions, manager);
+    }
+
+    @PluginBuilderFactory
+    public static <B extends Builder<B>> B newBuilder() {
+        return new Builder<B>().asBuilder();
+    }
+
+    public static class Builder<B extends Builder<B>> extends AbstractAppender.Builder<B>
+        implements org.apache.logging.log4j.core.util.Builder<CassandraAppender> {
+
+        /**
+         * List of Cassandra node contact points. Addresses without a port (or port set to 0) will use the default
+         * Cassandra port (9042).
+         */
+        @PluginElement("ContactPoints")
+        @Required(message = "No Cassandra servers provided")
+        private SocketAddress[] contactPoints = new SocketAddress[]{SocketAddress.getLoopback()};
+
+        /**
+         * List of column mappings to convert a LogEvent into a database row.
+         */
+        @PluginElement("Columns")
+        @Required(message = "No Cassandra columns provided")
+        private ColumnMapping[] columns;
+
+        @PluginBuilderAttribute
+        private boolean useTls;
+
+        @PluginBuilderAttribute
+        @Required(message = "No cluster name provided")
+        private String clusterName;
+
+        @PluginBuilderAttribute
+        @Required(message = "No keyspace provided")
+        private String keyspace;
+
+        @PluginBuilderAttribute
+        @Required(message = "No table name provided")
+        private String table;
+
+        @PluginBuilderAttribute
+        private String username;
+
+        @PluginBuilderAttribute(sensitive = true)
+        private String password;
+
+        /**
+         * Override the default TimestampGenerator with one based on the configured {@link Clock}.
+         */
+        @PluginBuilderAttribute
+        private boolean useClockForTimestampGenerator;
+
+        /**
+         * Number of LogEvents to buffer before writing. Can be used with or without batch statements.
+         */
+        @PluginBuilderAttribute
+        private int bufferSize;
+
+        /**
+         * Whether or not to use batch statements when inserting records.
+         */
+        @PluginBuilderAttribute
+        private boolean batched;
+
+        /**
+         * If batch statements are enabled, use this type of batch statement.
+         */
+        @PluginBuilderAttribute
+        private BatchStatement.Type batchType = BatchStatement.Type.LOGGED;
+
+        public B setContactPoints(final SocketAddress... contactPoints) {
+            this.contactPoints = contactPoints;
+            return asBuilder();
+        }
+
+        public B setColumns(final ColumnMapping... columns) {
+            this.columns = columns;
+            return asBuilder();
+        }
+
+        public B setUseTls(final boolean useTls) {
+            this.useTls = useTls;
+            return asBuilder();
+        }
+
+        public B setClusterName(final String clusterName) {
+            this.clusterName = clusterName;
+            return asBuilder();
+        }
+
+        public B setKeyspace(final String keyspace) {
+            this.keyspace = keyspace;
+            return asBuilder();
+        }
+
+        public B setTable(final String table) {
+            this.table = table;
+            return asBuilder();
+        }
+
+        public B setUsername(final String username) {
+            this.username = username;
+            return asBuilder();
+        }
+
+        public B setPassword(final String password) {
+            this.password = password;
+            return asBuilder();
+        }
+
+        public B setUseClockForTimestampGenerator(final boolean useClockForTimestampGenerator) {
+            this.useClockForTimestampGenerator = useClockForTimestampGenerator;
+            return asBuilder();
+        }
+
+        public B setBufferSize(final int bufferSize) {
+            this.bufferSize = bufferSize;
+            return asBuilder();
+        }
+
+        public B setBatched(final boolean batched) {
+            this.batched = batched;
+            return asBuilder();
+        }
+
+        public B setBatchType(final BatchStatement.Type batchType) {
+            this.batchType = batchType;
+            return asBuilder();
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public CassandraAppender build() {
+            final CassandraManager manager = CassandraManager.getManager(getName(), contactPoints, columns, useTls,
+                clusterName, keyspace, table, username, password, useClockForTimestampGenerator, bufferSize, batched,
+                batchType);
+            return new CassandraAppender(getName(), getFilter(), isIgnoreExceptions(), manager);
+        }
+
+    }
+
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache license, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the license for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the license.
+ */
+package org.apache.logging.log4j.nosql.appender.cassandra;
+
+import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Date;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import com.datastax.driver.core.BatchStatement;
+import com.datastax.driver.core.BoundStatement;
+import com.datastax.driver.core.Cluster;
+import com.datastax.driver.core.PreparedStatement;
+import com.datastax.driver.core.Session;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LogEvent;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.ManagerFactory;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.db.AbstractDatabaseManager;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.db.ColumnMapping;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.convert.DateTypeConverter;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.convert.TypeConverters;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.net.SocketAddress;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.spi.ThreadContextMap;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.spi.ThreadContextStack;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.util.ReadOnlyStringMap;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.util.Strings;
+
+/**
+ * Manager for a Cassandra appender instance.
+ */
+public class CassandraManager extends AbstractDatabaseManager {
+
+    private static final int DEFAULT_PORT = 9042;
+
+    private final Cluster cluster;
+    private final String keyspace;
+    private final String insertQueryTemplate;
+    private final List<ColumnMapping> columnMappings;
+    private final BatchStatement batchStatement;
+    // re-usable argument binding array
+    private final Object[] values;
+
+    private Session session;
+    private PreparedStatement preparedStatement;
+
+    private CassandraManager(final String name, final int bufferSize, final Cluster cluster,
+                             final String keyspace, final String insertQueryTemplate,
+                             final List<ColumnMapping> columnMappings, final BatchStatement batchStatement) {
+        super(name, bufferSize);
+        this.cluster = cluster;
+        this.keyspace = keyspace;
+        this.insertQueryTemplate = insertQueryTemplate;
+        this.columnMappings = columnMappings;
+        this.batchStatement = batchStatement;
+        this.values = new Object[columnMappings.size()];
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected void startupInternal() throws Exception {
+        session = cluster.connect(keyspace);
+        preparedStatement = session.prepare(insertQueryTemplate);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected boolean shutdownInternal() throws Exception {
+        session.close();
+        cluster.close();
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected void connectAndStart() {
+        // a Session automatically manages connections for us
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected void writeInternal(final LogEvent event) {
+        for (int i = 0; i < columnMappings.size(); i++) {
+            final ColumnMapping columnMapping = columnMappings.get(i);
+            if (ThreadContextMap.class.isAssignableFrom(columnMapping.getType())
+                || ReadOnlyStringMap.class.isAssignableFrom(columnMapping.getType())) {
+                values[i] = event.getContextData().toMap();
+            } else if (ThreadContextStack.class.isAssignableFrom(columnMapping.getType())) {
+                values[i] = event.getContextStack().asList();
+            } else if (Date.class.isAssignableFrom(columnMapping.getType())) {
+                values[i] = DateTypeConverter.fromMillis(event.getTimeMillis(), columnMapping.getType().asSubclass(Date.class));
+            } else {
+                values[i] = TypeConverters.convert(columnMapping.getLayout().toSerializable(event),
+                    columnMapping.getType(), null);
+            }
+        }
+        final BoundStatement boundStatement = preparedStatement.bind(values);
+        if (batchStatement == null) {
+            session.execute(boundStatement);
+        } else {
+            batchStatement.add(boundStatement);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected boolean commitAndClose() {
+        if (batchStatement != null) {
+            session.execute(batchStatement);
+        }
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    public static CassandraManager getManager(final String name, final SocketAddress[] contactPoints,
+                                              final ColumnMapping[] columns, final boolean useTls,
+                                              final String clusterName, final String keyspace, final String table,
+                                              final String username, final String password,
+                                              final boolean useClockForTimestampGenerator, final int bufferSize,
+                                              final boolean batched, final BatchStatement.Type batchType) {
+        return getManager(name,
+            new FactoryData(contactPoints, columns, useTls, clusterName, keyspace, table, username, password,
+                useClockForTimestampGenerator, bufferSize, batched, batchType), CassandraManagerFactory.INSTANCE);
+    }
+
+    private static class CassandraManagerFactory implements ManagerFactory<CassandraManager, FactoryData> {
+
+        private static final CassandraManagerFactory INSTANCE = new CassandraManagerFactory();
+
+        @Override
+        public CassandraManager createManager(final String name, final FactoryData data) {
+            final Cluster.Builder builder = Cluster.builder()
+                .addContactPointsWithPorts(data.contactPoints)
+                .withClusterName(data.clusterName);
+            if (data.useTls) {
+                builder.withSSL();
+            }
+            if (Strings.isNotBlank(data.username)) {
+                builder.withCredentials(data.username, data.password);
+            }
+            if (data.useClockForTimestampGenerator) {
+                builder.withTimestampGenerator(new ClockTimestampGenerator());
+            }
+            final Cluster cluster = builder.build();
+
+            final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder("INSERT INTO ").append(data.table).append(" (");
+            for (final ColumnMapping column : data.columns) {
+                sb.append(column.getName()).append(',');
+            }
+            sb.setCharAt(sb.length() - 1, ')');
+            sb.append(" VALUES (");
+            final List<ColumnMapping> columnMappings = new ArrayList<>(data.columns.length);
+            for (final ColumnMapping column : data.columns) {
+                if (Strings.isNotEmpty(column.getLiteralValue())) {
+                    sb.append(column.getLiteralValue());
+                } else {
+                    sb.append('?');
+                    columnMappings.add(column);
+                }
+                sb.append(',');
+            }
+            sb.setCharAt(sb.length() - 1, ')');
+            final String insertQueryTemplate = sb.toString();
+            LOGGER.debug("Using CQL for appender {}: {}", name, insertQueryTemplate);
+            return new CassandraManager(name, data.getBufferSize(), cluster, data.keyspace, insertQueryTemplate,
+                columnMappings, data.batched ? new BatchStatement(data.batchType) : null);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static class FactoryData extends AbstractFactoryData {
+        private final InetSocketAddress[] contactPoints;
+        private final ColumnMapping[] columns;
+        private final boolean useTls;
+        private final String clusterName;
+        private final String keyspace;
+        private final String table;
+        private final String username;
+        private final String password;
+        private final boolean useClockForTimestampGenerator;
+        private final boolean batched;
+        private final BatchStatement.Type batchType;
+
+        private FactoryData(final SocketAddress[] contactPoints, final ColumnMapping[] columns, final boolean useTls,
+                            final String clusterName, final String keyspace, final String table, final String username,
+                            final String password, final boolean useClockForTimestampGenerator, final int bufferSize,
+                            final boolean batched, final BatchStatement.Type batchType) {
+            super(bufferSize);
+            this.contactPoints = convertAndAddDefaultPorts(contactPoints);
+            this.columns = columns;
+            this.useTls = useTls;
+            this.clusterName = clusterName;
+            this.keyspace = keyspace;
+            this.table = table;
+            this.username = username;
+            this.password = password;
+            this.useClockForTimestampGenerator = useClockForTimestampGenerator;
+            this.batched = batched;
+            this.batchType = batchType;
+        }
+
+        private static InetSocketAddress[] convertAndAddDefaultPorts(final SocketAddress... socketAddresses) {
+            final InetSocketAddress[] inetSocketAddresses = new InetSocketAddress[socketAddresses.length];
+            for (int i = 0; i < inetSocketAddresses.length; i++) {
+                final SocketAddress socketAddress = socketAddresses[i];
+                inetSocketAddresses[i] = socketAddress.getPort() == 0
+                    ? new InetSocketAddress(socketAddress.getAddress(), DEFAULT_PORT)
+                    : socketAddress.getSocketAddress();
+            }
+            return inetSocketAddresses;
+        }
+    }
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache license, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the license for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the license.
+ */
+package org.apache.logging.log4j.nosql.appender.cassandra;
+
+import com.datastax.driver.core.TimestampGenerator;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.util.Clock;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.util.ClockFactory;
+
+/**
+ * A {@link TimestampGenerator} implementation using the configured {@link Clock}.
+ */
+public class ClockTimestampGenerator implements TimestampGenerator {
+
+    private final Clock clock = ClockFactory.getClock();
+
+    @Override
+    public long next() {
+        return clock.currentTimeMillis();
+    }
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache license, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the license for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the license.
+ */
+/**
+ * Log4j appender plugin and supporting classes for Apache Cassandra.
+ *
+ * @see <a href="https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/appenders.html#CassandraAppender">Cassandra Appender manual</a>
+ * @since 2.8
+ */
+package org.apache.logging.log4j.nosql.appender.cassandra;
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+<!-- vim: set syn=markdown : -->
+<!--
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+    contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+    this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+    The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+    (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+    the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+    limitations under the License.
+-->
+#set($h1='#')
+#set($h2='##')
+## TODO: use properties for dynamic dependency versions
+
+$h1 Cassandra Appender
+
+The Cassandra Appender allow applications to send events to Apache Cassandra repositories.

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+<!--
+ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ limitations under the License.
+
+-->
+<project name="Log4j Cassandra Appender"
+         xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/DECORATION/1.4.0"
+         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/DECORATION/1.4.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/decoration-1.4.0.xsd">
+  <body>
+    <links>
+      <item name="Apache" href="http://www.apache.org/" />
+      <item name="Logging Services" href="http://logging.apache.org/"/>
+      <item name="Log4j" href="../index.html"/>
+    </links>
+
+    <!-- Component-specific reports -->
+    <menu ref="reports"/>
+
+	<!-- Overall Project Info -->
+    <menu name="Log4j Project Information" img="icon-info-sign">
+      <item name="Dependencies" href="../dependencies.html" />
+      <item name="Dependency Convergence" href="../dependency-convergence.html" />
+      <item name="Dependency Management" href="../dependency-management.html" />
+      <item name="Project Team" href="../team-list.html" />
+      <item name="Mailing Lists" href="../mail-lists.html" />
+      <item name="Issue Tracking" href="../issue-tracking.html" />
+      <item name="Project License" href="../license.html" />
+      <item name="Source Repository" href="../source-repository.html" />
+      <item name="Project Summary" href="../project-summary.html" />
+    </menu>
+
+    <menu name="Log4j Project Reports" img="icon-cog">
+      <item name="Changes Report" href="../changes-report.html" />
+      <item name="JIRA Report" href="../jira-report.html" />
+      <item name="Surefire Report" href="../surefire-report.html" />
+      <item name="RAT Report" href="../rat-report.html" />
+    </menu>
+  </body>
+</project>

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache license, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the license for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the license.
+ */
+package org.apache.logging.log4j.nosql.appender.cassandra;
+
+import java.util.Date;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.UUID;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+
+import com.datastax.driver.core.Row;
+import com.datastax.driver.core.Session;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.MarkerManager;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.ThreadContext;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.categories.Appenders;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.junit.LoggerContextRule;
+import org.junit.ClassRule;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.experimental.categories.Category;
+import org.junit.rules.RuleChain;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+
+/**
+ * Integration test for CassandraAppender.
+ */
+@Category(Appenders.Cassandra.class)
+public class CassandraAppenderIT {
+
+    private static final String DDL = "CREATE TABLE logs (" +
+        "id timeuuid PRIMARY KEY," +
+        "timeid timeuuid," +
+        "message text," +
+        "level text," +
+        "marker text," +
+        "logger text," +
+        "timestamp timestamp," +
+        "mdc map<text,text>," +
+        "ndc list<text>" +
+        ")";
+
+    private static final LoggerContextRule CTX = new LoggerContextRule("CassandraAppenderTest.xml");
+    private static final CassandraRule CASSANDRA = new CassandraRule("test", DDL);
+
+    @ClassRule
+    public static RuleChain rules = RuleChain.outerRule(CASSANDRA).around(CTX);
+
+    @Test
+    public void appendManyEvents() throws Exception {
+        final Logger logger = CTX.getLogger();
+        ThreadContext.put("test", "mdc");
+        ThreadContext.push("ndc");
+        for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++) {
+            logger.info(MarkerManager.getMarker("MARKER"), "Test log message");
+        }
+        ThreadContext.clearAll();
+
+        TimeUnit.SECONDS.sleep(3);
+
+        int i = 0;
+        try (final Session session = CASSANDRA.connect()) {
+            for (final Row row : session.execute("SELECT * FROM logs")) {
+                assertNotNull(row.get("id", UUID.class));
+                assertNotNull(row.get("timeid", UUID.class));
+                assertNotNull(row.get("timestamp", Date.class));
+                assertEquals("Test log message", row.getString("message"));
+                assertEquals("MARKER", row.getString("marker"));
+                assertEquals("INFO", row.getString("level"));
+                assertEquals(getClass().getName(), row.getString("logger"));
+                final Map<String, String> mdc = row.getMap("mdc", String.class, String.class);
+                assertEquals(1, mdc.size());
+                assertEquals("mdc", mdc.get("test"));
+                final List<String> ndc = row.getList("ndc", String.class);
+                assertEquals(1, ndc.size());
+                assertEquals("ndc", ndc.get(0));
+                ++i;
+            }
+        }
+        assertEquals(20, i);
+    }
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache license, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the license for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the license.
+ */
+package org.apache.logging.log4j.nosql.appender.cassandra;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.InetAddress;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.security.Permission;
+import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
+import java.util.concurrent.ThreadFactory;
+
+import com.datastax.driver.core.Cluster;
+import com.datastax.driver.core.Session;
+import org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.LoggingException;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.util.Cancellable;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.util.Closer;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.util.Log4jThreadFactory;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.util.PropertiesUtil;
+import org.junit.rules.ExternalResource;
+
+/**
+ * JUnit rule to set up and tear down a Cassandra database instance.
+ */
+public class CassandraRule extends ExternalResource {
+
+    private static final ThreadFactory THREAD_FACTORY = Log4jThreadFactory.createThreadFactory("Cassandra");
+
+    private final CountDownLatch latch = new CountDownLatch(1);
+    private final Cancellable embeddedCassandra = new EmbeddedCassandra(latch);
+    private final String keyspace;
+    private final String tableDdl;
+    private Cluster cluster;
+
+    public CassandraRule(final String keyspace, final String tableDdl) {
+        this.keyspace = keyspace;
+        this.tableDdl = tableDdl;
+    }
+
+    public Cluster getCluster() {
+        return cluster;
+    }
+
+    public Session connect() {
+        return cluster.connect(keyspace);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected void before() throws Throwable {
+        final Path root = Files.createTempDirectory("cassandra");
+        Files.createDirectories(root.resolve("data"));
+        final Path config = root.resolve("cassandra.yml");
+        Files.copy(getClass().getResourceAsStream("/cassandra.yaml"), config);
+        System.setProperty("cassandra.config", "file:" + config.toString());
+        System.setProperty("cassandra.storagedir", root.toString());
+        System.setProperty("cassandra-foreground", "true"); // prevents Cassandra from closing stdout/stderr
+        THREAD_FACTORY.newThread(embeddedCassandra).start();
+        latch.await();
+        cluster = Cluster.builder().addContactPoints(InetAddress.getLoopbackAddress()).build();
+        try (final Session session = cluster.connect()) {
+            session.execute("CREATE KEYSPACE " + keyspace + " WITH REPLICATION = " +
+                "{ 'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor': 2 };");
+        }
+        try (final Session session = connect()) {
+            session.execute(tableDdl);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected void after() {
+        Closer.closeSilently(cluster);
+        embeddedCassandra.cancel();
+    }
+
+    private static class EmbeddedCassandra implements Cancellable {
+
+        private final CassandraDaemon daemon = new CassandraDaemon();
+        private final CountDownLatch latch;
+
+        private EmbeddedCassandra(final CountDownLatch latch) {
+            this.latch = latch;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void cancel() {
+            // LOG4J2-1850 Cassandra on Windows calls System.exit in the daemon stop method
+            if (PropertiesUtil.getProperties().isOsWindows()) {
+                cancelOnWindows();
+            } else {
+                daemon.stop();
+            }
+        }
+
+        private void cancelOnWindows() {
+            final SecurityManager currentSecurityManager = System.getSecurityManager();
+            try {
+                final SecurityManager securityManager = new SecurityManager() {
+                    @Override
+                    public void checkPermission(final Permission permission) {
+                        final String permissionName = permission.getName();
+                        if (permissionName != null && permissionName.startsWith("exitVM")) {
+                            throw new SecurityException("test");
+                        }
+                    }
+                };
+                System.setSecurityManager(securityManager);
+                daemon.stop();
+            } catch (final SecurityException ex) {
+                // ignore
+            } finally {
+                System.setSecurityManager(currentSecurityManager);
+            }
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void run() {
+            try {
+                daemon.init(null);
+            } catch (final IOException e) {
+                throw new LoggingException("Cannot initialize embedded Cassandra instance", e);
+            }
+            daemon.start();
+            latch.countDown();
+        }
+    }
+}

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ limitations under the License.
+
+-->
+<Configuration name="CassandraAppenderTest">
+  <Appenders>
+    <Cassandra name="Cassandra" clusterName="Test Cluster" keyspace="test" table="logs" bufferSize="10" batched="true">
+      <SocketAddress host="localhost" port="9042"/>
+      <ColumnMapping name="id" pattern="%uuid{TIME}" type="java.util.UUID"/>
+      <ColumnMapping name="timeid" literal="now()"/>
+      <ColumnMapping name="message" pattern="%message"/>
+      <ColumnMapping name="level" pattern="%level"/>
+      <ColumnMapping name="marker" pattern="%marker"/>
+      <ColumnMapping name="logger" pattern="%logger"/>
+      <ColumnMapping name="timestamp" type="java.util.Date"/>
+      <ColumnMapping name="mdc" type="org.apache.logging.log4j.spi.ThreadContextMap"/>
+      <ColumnMapping name="ndc" type="org.apache.logging.log4j.spi.ThreadContextStack"/>
+    </Cassandra>
+  </Appenders>
+  <Loggers>
+    <Logger name="org.apache.logging.log4j.nosql.appender.cassandra" level="DEBUG">
+      <AppenderRef ref="Cassandra"/>
+    </Logger>
+    <Root level="ERROR"/>
+  </Loggers>
+</Configuration>
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+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache license, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the license for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the license.
+
+# Cassandra storage config YAML
+
+# NOTE:
+#   See http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/StorageConfiguration for
+#   full explanations of configuration directives
+# /NOTE
+
+# The name of the cluster. This is mainly used to prevent machines in
+# one logical cluster from joining another.
+cluster_name: 'Test Cluster'
+
+# This defines the number of tokens randomly assigned to this node on the ring
+# The more tokens, relative to other nodes, the larger the proportion of data
+# that this node will store. You probably want all nodes to have the same number
+# of tokens assuming they have equal hardware capability.
+#
+# If you leave this unspecified, Cassandra will use the default of 1 token for legacy compatibility,
+# and will use the initial_token as described below.
+#
+# Specifying initial_token will override this setting on the node's initial start,
+# on subsequent starts, this setting will apply even if initial token is set.
+#
+# If you already have a cluster with 1 token per node, and wish to migrate to 
+# multiple tokens per node, see http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations
+num_tokens: 256
+
+# initial_token allows you to specify tokens manually.  While you can use # it with
+# vnodes (num_tokens > 1, above) -- in which case you should provide a 
+# comma-separated list -- it's primarily used when adding nodes # to legacy clusters 
+# that do not have vnodes enabled.
+# initial_token:
+
+# See http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/HintedHandoff
+# May either be "true" or "false" to enable globally, or contain a list
+# of data centers to enable per-datacenter.
+# hinted_handoff_enabled: DC1,DC2
+hinted_handoff_enabled: true
+# this defines the maximum amount of time a dead host will have hints
+# generated.  After it has been dead this long, new hints for it will not be
+# created until it has been seen alive and gone down again.
+max_hint_window_in_ms: 10800000 # 3 hours
+# Maximum throttle in KBs per second, per delivery thread.  This will be
+# reduced proportionally to the number of nodes in the cluster.  (If there
+# are two nodes in the cluster, each delivery thread will use the maximum
+# rate; if there are three, each will throttle to half of the maximum,
+# since we expect two nodes to be delivering hints simultaneously.)
+hinted_handoff_throttle_in_kb: 1024
+# Number of threads with which to deliver hints;
+# Consider increasing this number when you have multi-dc deployments, since
+# cross-dc handoff tends to be slower
+max_hints_delivery_threads: 2
+
+# Maximum throttle in KBs per second, total. This will be
+# reduced proportionally to the number of nodes in the cluster.
+batchlog_replay_throttle_in_kb: 1024
+
+# Authentication backend, implementing IAuthenticator; used to identify users
+# Out of the box, Cassandra provides org.apache.cassandra.auth.{AllowAllAuthenticator,
+# PasswordAuthenticator}.
+#
+# - AllowAllAuthenticator performs no checks - set it to disable authentication.
+# - PasswordAuthenticator relies on username/password pairs to authenticate
+#   users. It keeps usernames and hashed passwords in system_auth.credentials table.
+#   Please increase system_auth keyspace replication factor if you use this authenticator.
+#   If using PasswordAuthenticator, CassandraRoleManager must also be used (see below)
+authenticator: AllowAllAuthenticator
+
+# Authorization backend, implementing IAuthorizer; used to limit access/provide permissions
+# Out of the box, Cassandra provides org.apache.cassandra.auth.{AllowAllAuthorizer,
+# CassandraAuthorizer}.
+#
+# - AllowAllAuthorizer allows any action to any user - set it to disable authorization.
+# - CassandraAuthorizer stores permissions in system_auth.permissions table. Please
+#   increase system_auth keyspace replication factor if you use this authorizer.
+authorizer: AllowAllAuthorizer
+
+# Part of the Authentication & Authorization backend, implementing IRoleManager; used
+# to maintain grants and memberships between roles.
+# Out of the box, Cassandra provides org.apache.cassandra.auth.CassandraRoleManager,
+# which stores role information in the system_auth keyspace. Most functions of the
+# IRoleManager require an authenticated login, so unless the configured IAuthenticator
+# actually implements authentication, most of this functionality will be unavailable.
+#
+# - CassandraRoleManager stores role data in the system_auth keyspace. Please
+#   increase system_auth keyspace replication factor if you use this role manager.
+role_manager: CassandraRoleManager
+
+# Validity period for roles cache (fetching permissions can be an
+# expensive operation depending on the authorizer). Granted roles are cached for
+# authenticated sessions in AuthenticatedUser and after the period specified
+# here, become eligible for (async) reload.
+# Defaults to 2000, set to 0 to disable.
+# Will be disabled automatically for AllowAllAuthenticator.
+roles_validity_in_ms: 2000
+
+# Refresh interval for roles cache (if enabled).
+# After this interval, cache entries become eligible for refresh. Upon next
+# access, an async reload is scheduled and the old value returned until it
+# completes. If roles_validity_in_ms is non-zero, then this must be
+# also.
+# Defaults to the same value as roles_validity_in_ms.
+# roles_update_interval_in_ms: 1000
+
+# Validity period for permissions cache (fetching permissions can be an
+# expensive operation depending on the authorizer, CassandraAuthorizer is
+# one example). Defaults to 2000, set to 0 to disable.
+# Will be disabled automatically for AllowAllAuthorizer.
+permissions_validity_in_ms: 2000
+
+# Refresh interval for permissions cache (if enabled).
+# After this interval, cache entries become eligible for refresh. Upon next
+# access, an async reload is scheduled and the old value returned until it
+# completes. If permissions_validity_in_ms is non-zero, then this must be
+# also.
+# Defaults to the same value as permissions_validity_in_ms.
+# permissions_update_interval_in_ms: 1000
+
+# The partitioner is responsible for distributing groups of rows (by
+# partition key) across nodes in the cluster.  You should leave this
+# alone for new clusters.  The partitioner can NOT be changed without
+# reloading all data, so when upgrading you should set this to the
+# same partitioner you were already using.
+#
+# Besides Murmur3Partitioner, partitioners included for backwards
+# compatibility include RandomPartitioner, ByteOrderedPartitioner, and
+# OrderPreservingPartitioner.
+#
+partitioner: org.apache.cassandra.dht.Murmur3Partitioner
+
+# Directories where Cassandra should store data on disk.  Cassandra
+# will spread data evenly across them, subject to the granularity of
+# the configured compaction strategy.
+# If not set, the default directory is $CASSANDRA_HOME/data/data.
+# data_file_directories:
+#     - /var/lib/cassandra/data
+
+# commit log.  when running on magnetic HDD, this should be a
+# separate spindle than the data directories.
+# If not set, the default directory is $CASSANDRA_HOME/data/commitlog.
+# commitlog_directory: /var/lib/cassandra/commitlog
+
+# policy for data disk failures:
+# die: shut down gossip and client transports and kill the JVM for any fs errors or
+#      single-sstable errors, so the node can be replaced.
+# stop_paranoid: shut down gossip and client transports even for single-sstable errors,
+#                kill the JVM for errors during startup.
+# stop: shut down gossip and client transports, leaving the node effectively dead, but
+#       can still be inspected via JMX, kill the JVM for errors during startup.
+# best_effort: stop using the failed disk and respond to requests based on
+#              remaining available sstables.  This means you WILL see obsolete
+#              data at CL.ONE!
+# ignore: ignore fatal errors and let requests fail, as in pre-1.2 Cassandra
+disk_failure_policy: stop
+
+# policy for commit disk failures:
+# die: shut down gossip and Thrift and kill the JVM, so the node can be replaced.
+# stop: shut down gossip and Thrift, leaving the node effectively dead, but
+#       can still be inspected via JMX.
+# stop_commit: shutdown the commit log, letting writes collect but
+#              continuing to service reads, as in pre-2.0.5 Cassandra
+# ignore: ignore fatal errors and let the batches fail
+commit_failure_policy: stop
+
+# Maximum size of the key cache in memory.
+#
+# Each key cache hit saves 1 seek and each row cache hit saves 2 seeks at the
+# minimum, sometimes more. The key cache is fairly tiny for the amount of
+# time it saves, so it's worthwhile to use it at large numbers.
+# The row cache saves even more time, but must contain the entire row,
+# so it is extremely space-intensive. It's best to only use the
+# row cache if you have hot rows or static rows.
+#
+# NOTE: if you reduce the size, you may not get you hottest keys loaded on startup.
+#
+# Default value is empty to make it "auto" (min(5% of Heap (in MB), 100MB)). Set to 0 to disable key cache.
+key_cache_size_in_mb:
+
+# Duration in seconds after which Cassandra should
+# save the key cache. Caches are saved to saved_caches_directory as
+# specified in this configuration file.
+#
+# Saved caches greatly improve cold-start speeds, and is relatively cheap in
+# terms of I/O for the key cache. Row cache saving is much more expensive and
+# has limited use.
+#
+# Default is 14400 or 4 hours.
+key_cache_save_period: 14400
+
+# Number of keys from the key cache to save
+# Disabled by default, meaning all keys are going to be saved
+# key_cache_keys_to_save: 100
+
+# Row cache implementation class name.
+# Available implementations:
+#   org.apache.cassandra.cache.OHCProvider                Fully off-heap row cache implementation (default).
+#   org.apache.cassandra.cache.SerializingCacheProvider   This is the row cache implementation availabile
+#                                                         in previous releases of Cassandra.
+# row_cache_class_name: org.apache.cassandra.cache.OHCProvider
+
+# Maximum size of the row cache in memory.
+# Please note that OHC cache implementation requires some additional off-heap memory to manage
+# the map structures and some in-flight memory during operations before/after cache entries can be
+# accounted against the cache capacity. This overhead is usually small compared to the whole capacity.
+# Do not specify more memory that the system can afford in the worst usual situation and leave some
+# headroom for OS block level cache. Do never allow your system to swap.
+#
+# Default value is 0, to disable row caching.
+row_cache_size_in_mb: 0
+
+# Duration in seconds after which Cassandra should save the row cache.
+# Caches are saved to saved_caches_directory as specified in this configuration file.
+#
+# Saved caches greatly improve cold-start speeds, and is relatively cheap in
+# terms of I/O for the key cache. Row cache saving is much more expensive and
+# has limited use.
+#
+# Default is 0 to disable saving the row cache.
+row_cache_save_period: 0
+
+# Number of keys from the row cache to save.
+# Specify 0 (which is the default), meaning all keys are going to be saved
+# row_cache_keys_to_save: 100
+
+# Maximum size of the counter cache in memory.
+#
+# Counter cache helps to reduce counter locks' contention for hot counter cells.
+# In case of RF = 1 a counter cache hit will cause Cassandra to skip the read before
+# write entirely. With RF > 1 a counter cache hit will still help to reduce the duration
+# of the lock hold, helping with hot counter cell updates, but will not allow skipping
+# the read entirely. Only the local (clock, count) tuple of a counter cell is kept
+# in memory, not the whole counter, so it's relatively cheap.
+#
+# NOTE: if you reduce the size, you may not get you hottest keys loaded on startup.
+#
+# Default value is empty to make it "auto" (min(2.5% of Heap (in MB), 50MB)). Set to 0 to disable counter cache.
+# NOTE: if you perform counter deletes and rely on low gcgs, you should disable the counter cache.
+counter_cache_size_in_mb:
+
+# Duration in seconds after which Cassandra should
+# save the counter cache (keys only). Caches are saved to saved_caches_directory as
+# specified in this configuration file.
+#
+# Default is 7200 or 2 hours.
+counter_cache_save_period: 7200
+
+# Number of keys from the counter cache to save
+# Disabled by default, meaning all keys are going to be saved
+# counter_cache_keys_to_save: 100
+
+# saved caches
+# If not set, the default directory is $CASSANDRA_HOME/data/saved_caches.
+# saved_caches_directory: /var/lib/cassandra/saved_caches
+
+# commitlog_sync may be either "periodic" or "batch." 
+# 
+# When in batch mode, Cassandra won't ack writes until the commit log
+# has been fsynced to disk.  It will wait
+# commitlog_sync_batch_window_in_ms milliseconds between fsyncs.
+# This window should be kept short because the writer threads will
+# be unable to do extra work while waiting.  (You may need to increase
+# concurrent_writes for the same reason.)
+#
+# commitlog_sync: batch
+# commitlog_sync_batch_window_in_ms: 2
+#
+# the other option is "periodic" where writes may be acked immediately
+# and the CommitLog is simply synced every commitlog_sync_period_in_ms
+# milliseconds. 
+commitlog_sync: periodic
+commitlog_sync_period_in_ms: 10000
+
+# The size of the individual commitlog file segments.  A commitlog
+# segment may be archived, deleted, or recycled once all the data
+# in it (potentially from each columnfamily in the system) has been
+# flushed to sstables.  
+#
+# The default size is 32, which is almost always fine, but if you are
+# archiving commitlog segments (see commitlog_archiving.properties),
+# then you probably want a finer granularity of archiving; 8 or 16 MB
+# is reasonable.
+commitlog_segment_size_in_mb: 32
+
+# Compression to apply to the commit log. If omitted, the commit log
+# will be written uncompressed.  LZ4, Snappy, and Deflate compressors
+# are supported.
+#commitlog_compression:
+#   - class_name: LZ4Compressor
+#     parameters:
+#         -
+
+# any class that implements the SeedProvider interface and has a
+# constructor that takes a Map<String, String> of parameters will do.
+seed_provider:
+    # Addresses of hosts that are deemed contact points. 
+    # Cassandra nodes use this list of hosts to find each other and learn
+    # the topology of the ring.  You must change this if you are running
+    # multiple nodes!
+    - class_name: org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleSeedProvider
+      parameters:
+          # seeds is actually a comma-delimited list of addresses.
+          # Ex: "<ip1>,<ip2>,<ip3>"
+          - seeds: "127.0.0.1"
+
+# 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
+concurrent_writes: 32
+concurrent_counter_writes: 32
+
+# Total memory to use for sstable-reading buffers.  Defaults to
+# the smaller of 1/4 of heap or 512MB.
+# file_cache_size_in_mb: 512
+
+# Total permitted memory to use for memtables. Cassandra will stop 
+# accepting writes when the limit is exceeded until a flush completes,
+# and will trigger a flush based on memtable_cleanup_threshold
+# If omitted, Cassandra will set both to 1/4 the size of the heap.
+# memtable_heap_space_in_mb: 2048
+# memtable_offheap_space_in_mb: 2048
+
+# Ratio of occupied non-flushing memtable size to total permitted size
+# that will trigger a flush of the largest memtable. Larger mct will
+# mean larger flushes and hence less compaction, but also less concurrent
+# flush activity which can make it difficult to keep your disks fed
+# under heavy write load.
+#
+# memtable_cleanup_threshold defaults to 1 / (memtable_flush_writers + 1)
+# memtable_cleanup_threshold: 0.11
+
+# Specify the way Cassandra allocates and manages memtable memory.
+# Options are:
+#   heap_buffers:    on heap nio buffers
+#   offheap_buffers: off heap (direct) nio buffers
+#   offheap_objects: native memory, eliminating nio buffer heap overhead
+memtable_allocation_type: heap_buffers
+
+# Total space to use for commit logs on disk.
+#
+# If space gets above this value, Cassandra will flush every dirty CF
+# in the oldest segment and remove it.  So a small total commitlog space
+# will tend to cause more flush activity on less-active columnfamilies.
+#
+# The default value is the smaller of 8192, and 1/4 of the total space
+# of the commitlog volume.
+#
+# commitlog_total_space_in_mb: 8192
+
+# This sets the amount of memtable flush writer threads.  These will
+# be blocked by disk io, and each one will hold a memtable in memory
+# while blocked. 
+#
+# memtable_flush_writers 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.
+#memtable_flush_writers: 8
+
+# A fixed memory pool size in MB for for SSTable index summaries. If left
+# empty, this will default to 5% of the heap size. If the memory usage of
+# all index summaries exceeds this limit, SSTables with low read rates will
+# shrink their index summaries in order to meet this limit.  However, this
+# is a best-effort process. In extreme conditions Cassandra may need to use
+# more than this amount of memory.
+index_summary_capacity_in_mb:
+
+# How frequently index summaries should be resampled.  This is done
+# periodically to redistribute memory from the fixed-size pool to sstables
+# proportional their recent read rates.  Setting to -1 will disable this
+# process, leaving existing index summaries at their current sampling level.
+index_summary_resize_interval_in_minutes: 60
+
+# Whether to, when doing sequential writing, fsync() at intervals in
+# order to force the operating system to flush the dirty
+# buffers. Enable this to avoid sudden dirty buffer flushing from
+# impacting read latencies. Almost always a good idea on SSDs; not
+# necessarily on platters.
+trickle_fsync: false
+trickle_fsync_interval_in_kb: 10240
+
+# TCP port, for commands and data
+# For security reasons, you should not expose this port to the internet.  Firewall it if needed.
+storage_port: 7000
+
+# SSL port, for encrypted communication.  Unused unless enabled in
+# encryption_options
+# For security reasons, you should not expose this port to the internet.  Firewall it if needed.
+ssl_storage_port: 7001
+
+# Address or interface to bind to and tell other Cassandra nodes to connect to.
+# You _must_ change this if you want multiple nodes to be able to communicate!
+#
+# Set listen_address OR listen_interface, not both. Interfaces must correspond
+# to a single address, IP aliasing is not supported.
+#
+# Leaving it blank leaves it up to InetAddress.getLocalHost(). This
+# will always do the Right Thing _if_ the node is properly configured
+# (hostname, name resolution, etc), and the Right Thing is to use the
+# address associated with the hostname (it might not be).
+#
+# Setting listen_address to 0.0.0.0 is always wrong.
+#
+# If you choose to specify the interface by name and the interface has an ipv4 and an ipv6 address
+# you can specify which should be chosen using listen_interface_prefer_ipv6. If false the first ipv4
+# address will be used. If true the first ipv6 address will be used. Defaults to false preferring
+# ipv4. If there is only one address it will be selected regardless of ipv4/ipv6.
+listen_address: localhost
+# listen_interface: eth0
+# listen_interface_prefer_ipv6: false
+
+# Address to broadcast to other Cassandra nodes
+# Leaving this blank will set it to the same value as listen_address
+# broadcast_address: 1.2.3.4
+
+# When using multiple physical network interfaces, set this
+# to true to listen on broadcast_address in addition to
+# the listen_address, allowing nodes to communicate in both
+# interfaces.
+# Ignore this property if the network configuration automatically
+# routes  between the public and private networks such as EC2.
+# listen_on_broadcast_address: false
+
+# Internode authentication backend, implementing IInternodeAuthenticator;
+# used to allow/disallow connections from peer nodes.
+# internode_authenticator: org.apache.cassandra.auth.AllowAllInternodeAuthenticator
+
+# Whether to start the native transport server.
+# Please note that the address on which the native transport is bound is the
+# same as the rpc_address. The port however is different and specified below.
+start_native_transport: true
+# port for the CQL native transport to listen for clients on
+# For security reasons, you should not expose this port to the internet.  Firewall it if needed.
+native_transport_port: 9042
+# The maximum threads for handling requests when the native transport is used.
+# This is similar to rpc_max_threads though the default differs slightly (and
+# there is no native_transport_min_threads, idle threads will always be stopped
+# after 30 seconds).
+# native_transport_max_threads: 128
+#
+# The maximum size of allowed frame. Frame (requests) larger than this will
+# be rejected as invalid. The default is 256MB.
+# native_transport_max_frame_size_in_mb: 256
+
+# The maximum number of concurrent client connections.
+# The default is -1, which means unlimited.
+# native_transport_max_concurrent_connections: -1
+
+# The maximum number of concurrent client connections per source ip.
+# The default is -1, which means unlimited.
+# native_transport_max_concurrent_connections_per_ip: -1
+
+# Whether to start the thrift rpc server.
+start_rpc: false
+
+# The address or interface to bind the Thrift RPC service and native transport
+# server to.
+#
+# Set rpc_address OR rpc_interface, not both. Interfaces must correspond
+# to a single address, IP aliasing is not supported.
+#
+# Leaving rpc_address blank has the same effect as on listen_address
+# (i.e. it will be based on the configured hostname of the node).
+#
+# Note that unlike listen_address, you can specify 0.0.0.0, but you must also
+# set broadcast_rpc_address to a value other than 0.0.0.0.
+#
+# For security reasons, you should not expose this port to the internet.  Firewall it if needed.
+#
+# If you choose to specify the interface by name and the interface has an ipv4 and an ipv6 address
+# you can specify which should be chosen using rpc_interface_prefer_ipv6. If false the first ipv4
+# address will be used. If true the first ipv6 address will be used. Defaults to false preferring
+# ipv4. If there is only one address it will be selected regardless of ipv4/ipv6.
+rpc_address: localhost
+# rpc_interface: eth1
+# rpc_interface_prefer_ipv6: false
+
+# port for Thrift to listen for clients on
+rpc_port: 9160
+
+# RPC address to broadcast to drivers and other Cassandra nodes. This cannot
+# be set to 0.0.0.0. If left blank, this will be set to the value of
+# rpc_address. If rpc_address is set to 0.0.0.0, broadcast_rpc_address must
+# be set.
+# broadcast_rpc_address: 1.2.3.4
+
+# enable or disable keepalive on rpc/native connections
+rpc_keepalive: true
+
+# Cassandra provides two out-of-the-box options for the RPC Server:
+#
+# sync  -> One thread per thrift connection. For a very large number of clients, memory
+#          will be your limiting factor. On a 64 bit JVM, 180KB is the minimum stack size
+#          per thread, and that will correspond to your use of virtual memory (but physical memory
+#          may be limited depending on use of stack space).
+#
+# hsha  -> Stands for "half synchronous, half asynchronous." All thrift clients are handled
+#          asynchronously using a small number of threads that does not vary with the amount
+#          of thrift clients (and thus scales well to many clients). The rpc requests are still
+#          synchronous (one thread per active request). If hsha is selected then it is essential
+#          that rpc_max_threads is changed from the default value of unlimited.
+#
+# The default is sync because on Windows hsha is about 30% slower.  On Linux,
+# sync/hsha performance is about the same, with hsha of course using less memory.
+#
+# Alternatively,  can provide your own RPC server by providing the fully-qualified class name
+# of an o.a.c.t.TServerFactory that can create an instance of it.
+rpc_server_type: sync
+
+# Uncomment rpc_min|max_thread to set request pool size limits.
+#
+# Regardless of your choice of RPC server (see above), the number of maximum requests in the
+# RPC thread pool dictates how many concurrent requests are possible (but if you are using the sync
+# RPC server, it also dictates the number of clients that can be connected at all).
+#
+# The default is unlimited and thus provides no protection against clients overwhelming the server. You are
+# encouraged to set a maximum that makes sense for you in production, but do keep in mind that
+# rpc_max_threads represents the maximum number of client requests this server may execute concurrently.
+#
+# rpc_min_threads: 16
+# rpc_max_threads: 2048
+
+# uncomment to set socket buffer sizes on rpc connections
+# rpc_send_buff_size_in_bytes:
+# rpc_recv_buff_size_in_bytes:
+
+# Uncomment to set socket buffer size for internode communication
+# Note that when setting this, the buffer size is limited by net.core.wmem_max
+# and when not setting it it is defined by net.ipv4.tcp_wmem
+# See:
+# /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_max
+# /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max
+# /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem
+# /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem
+# and: man tcp
+# internode_send_buff_size_in_bytes:
+# internode_recv_buff_size_in_bytes:
+
+# Frame size for thrift (maximum message length).
+thrift_framed_transport_size_in_mb: 15
+
+# Set to true to have Cassandra create a hard link to each sstable
+# flushed or streamed locally in a backups/ subdirectory of the
+# keyspace data.  Removing these links is the operator's
+# responsibility.
+incremental_backups: false
+
+# Whether or not to take a snapshot before each compaction.  Be
+# careful using this option, since Cassandra won't clean up the
+# snapshots for you.  Mostly useful if you're paranoid when there
+# is a data format change.
+snapshot_before_compaction: false
+
+# Whether or not a snapshot is taken of the data before keyspace truncation
+# or dropping of column families. The STRONGLY advised default of true 
+# should be used to provide data safety. If you set this flag to false, you will
+# lose data on truncation or drop.
+auto_snapshot: true
+
+# When executing a scan, within or across a partition, we need to keep the
+# tombstones seen in memory so we can return them to the coordinator, which
+# will use them to make sure other replicas also know about the deleted rows.
+# With workloads that generate a lot of tombstones, this can cause performance
+# problems and even exaust the server heap.
+# (http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/cassandra-anti-patterns-queues-and-queue-like-datasets)
+# Adjust the thresholds here if you understand the dangers and want to
+# scan more tombstones anyway.  These thresholds may also be adjusted at runtime
+# using the StorageService mbean.
+tombstone_warn_threshold: 1000
+tombstone_failure_threshold: 100000
+
+# Granularity of the collation index of rows within a partition.
+# Increase if your rows are large, or if you have a very large
+# number of rows per partition.  The competing goals are these:
+#   1) a smaller granularity means more index entries are generated
+#      and looking up rows withing the partition by collation column
+#      is faster
+#   2) but, Cassandra will keep the collation index in memory for hot
+#      rows (as part of the key cache), so a larger granularity means
+#      you can cache more hot rows
+column_index_size_in_kb: 64
+
+
+# Log WARN on any batch size exceeding this value. 5kb per batch by default.
+# Caution should be taken on increasing the size of this threshold as it can lead to node instability.
+batch_size_warn_threshold_in_kb: 5
+
+# Fail any batch exceeding this value. 50kb (10x warn threshold) by default.
+batch_size_fail_threshold_in_kb: 50
+
+# Log WARN on any batches not of type LOGGED than span across more partitions than this limit
+unlogged_batch_across_partitions_warn_threshold: 10
+
+# Number of simultaneous compactions to allow, NOT including
+# validation "compactions" for anti-entropy repair.  Simultaneous
+# compactions can help preserve read performance in a mixed read/write
+# workload, by mitigating the tendency of small sstables to accumulate
+# during a single long running compactions. The default is usually
+# fine and if you experience problems with compaction running too
+# slowly or too fast, you should look at
+# compaction_throughput_mb_per_sec first.
+#
+# 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
+
+# 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
+
+# Log a warning when compacting partitions larger than this value
+compaction_large_partition_warning_threshold_mb: 100
+
+# When compacting, the replacement sstable(s) can be opened before they
+# are completely written, and used in place of the prior sstables for
+# any range that has been written. This helps to smoothly transfer reads 
+# between the sstables, reducing page cache churn and keeping hot rows hot
+sstable_preemptive_open_interval_in_mb: 50
+
+# Throttles all outbound streaming file transfers on this node to the
+# given total throughput in Mbps. This is necessary because Cassandra does
+# mostly sequential IO when streaming data during bootstrap or repair, which
+# can lead to saturating the network connection and degrading rpc performance.
+# When unset, the default is 200 Mbps or 25 MB/s.
+# stream_throughput_outbound_megabits_per_sec: 200
+
+# 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
+
+# How long the coordinator should wait for read operations to complete
+read_request_timeout_in_ms: 5000
+# How long the coordinator should wait for seq or index scans to complete
+range_request_timeout_in_ms: 10000
+# How long the coordinator should wait for writes to complete
+write_request_timeout_in_ms: 2000
+# How long the coordinator should wait for counter writes to complete
+counter_write_request_timeout_in_ms: 5000
+# How long a coordinator should continue to retry a CAS operation
+# that contends with other proposals for the same row
+cas_contention_timeout_in_ms: 1000
+# How long the coordinator should wait for truncates to complete
+# (This can be much longer, because unless auto_snapshot is disabled
+# we need to flush first so we can snapshot before removing the data.)
+truncate_request_timeout_in_ms: 60000
+# The default timeout for other, miscellaneous operations
+request_timeout_in_ms: 10000
+
+# Enable operation timeout information exchange between nodes to accurately
+# measure request timeouts.  If disabled, replicas will assume that requests
+# were forwarded to them instantly by the coordinator, which means that
+# under overload conditions we will waste that much extra time processing 
+# already-timed-out requests.
+#
+# Warning: before enabling this property make sure to ntp is installed
+# and the times are synchronized between the nodes.
+cross_node_timeout: false
+
+# Set socket timeout for streaming operation.
+# The stream session is failed if no data/ack is received by any of the participants
+# within that period, which means this should also be sufficient to stream a large
+# sstable or rebuild table indexes.
+# Default value is 86400000ms, which means stale streams timeout after 24 hours.
+# A value of zero means stream sockets should never time out.
+# streaming_socket_timeout_in_ms: 86400000
+
+# phi value that must be reached for a host to be marked down.
+# most users should never need to adjust this.
+# phi_convict_threshold: 8
+
+# endpoint_snitch -- Set this to a class that implements
+# IEndpointSnitch.  The snitch has two functions:
+# - it teaches Cassandra enough about your network topology to route
+#   requests efficiently
+# - it allows Cassandra to spread replicas around your cluster to avoid
+#   correlated failures. It does this by grouping machines into
+#   "datacenters" and "racks."  Cassandra will do its best not to have
+#   more than one replica on the same "rack" (which may not actually
+#   be a physical location)
+#
+# CASSANDRA WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO SWITCH TO AN INCOMPATIBLE SNITCH
+# ONCE DATA IS INSERTED INTO THE CLUSTER.  This would cause data loss.
+# This means that if you start with the default SimpleSnitch, which
+# locates every node on "rack1" in "datacenter1", your only options
+# if you need to add another datacenter are GossipingPropertyFileSnitch
+# (and the older PFS).  From there, if you want to migrate to an
+# incompatible snitch like Ec2Snitch you can do it by adding new nodes
+# under Ec2Snitch (which will locate them in a new "datacenter") and
+# decommissioning the old ones.
+#
+# Out of the box, Cassandra provides
+#  - SimpleSnitch:
+#    Treats Strategy order as proximity. This can improve cache
+#    locality when disabling read repair.  Only appropriate for
+#    single-datacenter deployments.
+#  - GossipingPropertyFileSnitch
+#    This should be your go-to snitch for production use.  The rack
+#    and datacenter for the local node are defined in
+#    cassandra-rackdc.properties and propagated to other nodes via
+#    gossip.  If cassandra-topology.properties exists, it is used as a
+#    fallback, allowing migration from the PropertyFileSnitch.
+#  - PropertyFileSnitch:
+#    Proximity is determined by rack and data center, which are
+#    explicitly configured in cassandra-topology.properties.
+#  - Ec2Snitch:
+#    Appropriate for EC2 deployments in a single Region. Loads Region
+#    and Availability Zone information from the EC2 API. The Region is
+#    treated as the datacenter, and the Availability Zone as the rack.
+#    Only private IPs are used, so this will not work across multiple
+#    Regions.
+#  - Ec2MultiRegionSnitch:
+#    Uses public IPs as broadcast_address to allow cross-region
+#    connectivity.  (Thus, you should set seed addresses to the public
+#    IP as well.) You will need to open the storage_port or
+#    ssl_storage_port on the public IP firewall.  (For intra-Region
+#    traffic, Cassandra will switch to the private IP after
+#    establishing a connection.)
+#  - RackInferringSnitch:
+#    Proximity is determined by rack and data center, which are
+#    assumed to correspond to the 3rd and 2nd octet of each node's IP
+#    address, respectively.  Unless this happens to match your
+#    deployment conventions, this is best used as an example of
+#    writing a custom Snitch class and is provided in that spirit.
+#
+# You can use a custom Snitch by setting this to the full class name
+# of the snitch, which will be assumed to be on your classpath.
+endpoint_snitch: SimpleSnitch
+
+# controls how often to perform the more expensive part of host score
+# calculation
+dynamic_snitch_update_interval_in_ms: 100 
+# controls how often to reset all host scores, allowing a bad host to
+# possibly recover
+dynamic_snitch_reset_interval_in_ms: 600000
+# if set greater than zero and read_repair_chance is < 1.0, this will allow
+# 'pinning' of replicas to hosts in order to increase cache capacity.
+# The badness threshold will control how much worse the pinned host has to be
+# before the dynamic snitch will prefer other replicas over it.  This is
+# expressed as a double which represents a percentage.  Thus, a value of
+# 0.2 means Cassandra would continue to prefer the static snitch values
+# until the pinned host was 20% worse than the fastest.
+dynamic_snitch_badness_threshold: 0.1
+
+# request_scheduler -- Set this to a class that implements
+# RequestScheduler, which will schedule incoming client requests
+# according to the specific policy. This is useful for multi-tenancy
+# with a single Cassandra cluster.
+# NOTE: This is specifically for requests from the client and does
+# not affect inter node communication.
+# org.apache.cassandra.scheduler.NoScheduler - No scheduling takes place
+# org.apache.cassandra.scheduler.RoundRobinScheduler - Round robin of
+# client requests to a node with a separate queue for each
+# request_scheduler_id. The scheduler is further customized by
+# request_scheduler_options as described below.
+request_scheduler: org.apache.cassandra.scheduler.NoScheduler
+
+# Scheduler Options vary based on the type of scheduler
+# NoScheduler - Has no options
+# RoundRobin
+#  - throttle_limit -- The throttle_limit is the number of in-flight
+#                      requests per client.  Requests beyond 
+#                      that limit are queued up until
+#                      running requests can complete.
+#                      The value of 80 here is twice the number of
+#                      concurrent_reads + concurrent_writes.
+#  - default_weight -- default_weight is optional and allows for
+#                      overriding the default which is 1.
+#  - weights -- Weights are optional and will default to 1 or the
+#               overridden default_weight. The weight translates into how
+#               many requests are handled during each turn of the
+#               RoundRobin, based on the scheduler id.
+#
+# request_scheduler_options:
+#    throttle_limit: 80
+#    default_weight: 5
+#    weights:
+#      Keyspace1: 1
+#      Keyspace2: 5
+
+# request_scheduler_id -- An identifier based on which to perform
+# the request scheduling. Currently the only valid option is keyspace.
+# request_scheduler_id: keyspace
+
+# Enable or disable inter-node encryption
+# Default settings are TLS v1, RSA 1024-bit keys (it is imperative that
+# users generate their own keys) TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA as the cipher
+# suite for authentication, key exchange and encryption of the actual data transfers.
+# Use the DHE/ECDHE ciphers if running in FIPS 140 compliant mode.
+# NOTE: No custom encryption options are enabled at the moment
+# The available internode options are : all, none, dc, rack
+#
+# If set to dc cassandra will encrypt the traffic between the DCs
+# If set to rack cassandra will encrypt the traffic between the racks
+#
+# The passwords used in these options must match the passwords used when generating
+# the keystore and truststore.  For instructions on generating these files, see:
+# http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/security/jsse/JSSERefGuide.html#CreateKeystore
+#
+server_encryption_options:
+    internode_encryption: none
+    keystore: conf/.keystore
+    keystore_password: cassandra
+    truststore: conf/.truststore
+    truststore_password: cassandra
+    # More advanced defaults below:
+    # protocol: TLS
+    # algorithm: SunX509
+    # store_type: JKS
+    # cipher_suites: [TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA]
+    # require_client_auth: false
+
+# enable or disable client/server encryption.
+client_encryption_options:
+    enabled: false
+    # If enabled and optional is set to true encrypted and unencrypted connections are handled.
+    optional: false
+    keystore: conf/.keystore
+    keystore_password: cassandra
+    # require_client_auth: false
+    # Set trustore and truststore_password if require_client_auth is true
+    # truststore: conf/.truststore
+    # truststore_password: cassandra
+    # More advanced defaults below:
+    # protocol: TLS
+    # algorithm: SunX509
+    # store_type: JKS
+    # cipher_suites: [TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA]
+
+# 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: all
+
+# Enable or disable tcp_nodelay for inter-dc communication.
+# Disabling it will result in larger (but fewer) network packets being sent,
+# reducing overhead from the TCP protocol itself, at the cost of increasing
+# latency if you block for cross-datacenter responses.
+inter_dc_tcp_nodelay: false
+
+# TTL for different trace types used during logging of the repair process.
+tracetype_query_ttl: 86400
+tracetype_repair_ttl: 604800
+
+# By default, Cassandra logs GC Pauses greater than 200 ms at INFO level
+# This threshold can be adjusted to minimize logging if necessary
+# gc_log_threshold_in_ms: 200
+
+# GC Pauses greater than gc_warn_threshold_in_ms will be logged at WARN level
+# If unset, all GC Pauses greater than gc_log_threshold_in_ms will log at
+# INFO level
+# Adjust the threshold based on your application throughput requirement
+# gc_warn_threshold_in_ms: 1000
+
+# UDFs (user defined functions) are disabled by default.
+# As of Cassandra 2.2, there is no security manager or anything else in place that
+# prevents execution of evil code. CASSANDRA-9402 will fix this issue for Cassandra 3.0.
+# This will inherently be backwards-incompatible with any 2.2 UDF that perform insecure
+# operations such as opening a socket or writing to the filesystem.
+enable_user_defined_functions: false
+
+# The default Windows kernel timer and scheduling resolution is 15.6ms for power conservation.
+# Lowering this value on Windows can provide much tighter latency and better throughput, however
+# some virtualized environments may see a negative performance impact from changing this setting
+# below their system default. The sysinternals 'clockres' tool can confirm your system's default
+# setting.
+windows_timer_interval: 1

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diff --git a/log4j-nosql/pom.xml b/log4j-nosql/pom.xml
index 670c5e2..8572765 100644
--- a/log4j-nosql/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-nosql/pom.xml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
   <artifactId>log4j-nosql</artifactId>
   <name>Apache Log4j NoSQL</name>
   <description>
-    NoSQL appenders for Log4j. These include appenders to databases such as MongoDB, Apache CouchDB, and Apache Cassandra.
+    NoSQL appenders for Log4j. These include appenders to databases such as MongoDB and Apache CouchDB.
   </description>
   <properties>
     <log4jParentDir>${basedir}/..</log4jParentDir>
@@ -76,23 +76,6 @@
       <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
       <type>test-jar</type>
     </dependency>
-    <!-- Cassandra appender integration testing -->
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.cassandra</groupId>
-      <artifactId>cassandra-all</artifactId>
-      <version>2.2.8</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-      <exclusions>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
-          <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
-          <artifactId>logback-core</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-      </exclusions>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>log4j-slf4j-impl</artifactId>

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-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
- * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
- * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
- * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache license, Version 2.0
- * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
- * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the license for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the license.
- */
-package org.apache.logging.log4j.nosql.appender.cassandra;
-
-import com.datastax.driver.core.BatchStatement;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.Core;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.Filter;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.AbstractAppender;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.db.AbstractDatabaseAppender;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.db.ColumnMapping;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.Plugin;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.PluginBuilderAttribute;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.PluginBuilderFactory;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.PluginElement;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.validation.constraints.Required;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.net.SocketAddress;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.util.Clock;
-
-/**
- * Appender plugin that uses a Cassandra database.
- *
- * @see SocketAddress
- * @see ColumnMapping
- */
-@Plugin(name = "Cassandra", category = Core.CATEGORY_NAME, elementType = CassandraAppender.ELEMENT_TYPE, printObject = true)
-public class CassandraAppender extends AbstractDatabaseAppender<CassandraManager> {
-
-    private CassandraAppender(final String name, final Filter filter, final boolean ignoreExceptions,
-                              final CassandraManager manager) {
-        super(name, filter, ignoreExceptions, manager);
-    }
-
-    @PluginBuilderFactory
-    public static <B extends Builder<B>> B newBuilder() {
-        return new Builder<B>().asBuilder();
-    }
-
-    public static class Builder<B extends Builder<B>> extends AbstractAppender.Builder<B>
-        implements org.apache.logging.log4j.core.util.Builder<CassandraAppender> {
-
-        /**
-         * List of Cassandra node contact points. Addresses without a port (or port set to 0) will use the default
-         * Cassandra port (9042).
-         */
-        @PluginElement("ContactPoints")
-        @Required(message = "No Cassandra servers provided")
-        private SocketAddress[] contactPoints = new SocketAddress[]{SocketAddress.getLoopback()};
-
-        /**
-         * List of column mappings to convert a LogEvent into a database row.
-         */
-        @PluginElement("Columns")
-        @Required(message = "No Cassandra columns provided")
-        private ColumnMapping[] columns;
-
-        @PluginBuilderAttribute
-        private boolean useTls;
-
-        @PluginBuilderAttribute
-        @Required(message = "No cluster name provided")
-        private String clusterName;
-
-        @PluginBuilderAttribute
-        @Required(message = "No keyspace provided")
-        private String keyspace;
-
-        @PluginBuilderAttribute
-        @Required(message = "No table name provided")
-        private String table;
-
-        @PluginBuilderAttribute
-        private String username;
-
-        @PluginBuilderAttribute(sensitive = true)
-        private String password;
-
-        /**
-         * Override the default TimestampGenerator with one based on the configured {@link Clock}.
-         */
-        @PluginBuilderAttribute
-        private boolean useClockForTimestampGenerator;
-
-        /**
-         * Number of LogEvents to buffer before writing. Can be used with or without batch statements.
-         */
-        @PluginBuilderAttribute
-        private int bufferSize;
-
-        /**
-         * Whether or not to use batch statements when inserting records.
-         */
-        @PluginBuilderAttribute
-        private boolean batched;
-
-        /**
-         * If batch statements are enabled, use this type of batch statement.
-         */
-        @PluginBuilderAttribute
-        private BatchStatement.Type batchType = BatchStatement.Type.LOGGED;
-
-        public B setContactPoints(final SocketAddress... contactPoints) {
-            this.contactPoints = contactPoints;
-            return asBuilder();
-        }
-
-        public B setColumns(final ColumnMapping... columns) {
-            this.columns = columns;
-            return asBuilder();
-        }
-
-        public B setUseTls(final boolean useTls) {
-            this.useTls = useTls;
-            return asBuilder();
-        }
-
-        public B setClusterName(final String clusterName) {
-            this.clusterName = clusterName;
-            return asBuilder();
-        }
-
-        public B setKeyspace(final String keyspace) {
-            this.keyspace = keyspace;
-            return asBuilder();
-        }
-
-        public B setTable(final String table) {
-            this.table = table;
-            return asBuilder();
-        }
-
-        public B setUsername(final String username) {
-            this.username = username;
-            return asBuilder();
-        }
-
-        public B setPassword(final String password) {
-            this.password = password;
-            return asBuilder();
-        }
-
-        public B setUseClockForTimestampGenerator(final boolean useClockForTimestampGenerator) {
-            this.useClockForTimestampGenerator = useClockForTimestampGenerator;
-            return asBuilder();
-        }
-
-        public B setBufferSize(final int bufferSize) {
-            this.bufferSize = bufferSize;
-            return asBuilder();
-        }
-
-        public B setBatched(final boolean batched) {
-            this.batched = batched;
-            return asBuilder();
-        }
-
-        public B setBatchType(final BatchStatement.Type batchType) {
-            this.batchType = batchType;
-            return asBuilder();
-        }
-
-        @Override
-        public CassandraAppender build() {
-            final CassandraManager manager = CassandraManager.getManager(getName(), contactPoints, columns, useTls,
-                clusterName, keyspace, table, username, password, useClockForTimestampGenerator, bufferSize, batched,
-                batchType);
-            return new CassandraAppender(getName(), getFilter(), isIgnoreExceptions(), manager);
-        }
-
-    }
-
-}

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-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
- * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
- * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
- * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache license, Version 2.0
- * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
- * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the license for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the license.
- */
-package org.apache.logging.log4j.nosql.appender.cassandra;
-
-import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
-import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.Date;
-import java.util.List;
-
-import com.datastax.driver.core.BatchStatement;
-import com.datastax.driver.core.BoundStatement;
-import com.datastax.driver.core.Cluster;
-import com.datastax.driver.core.PreparedStatement;
-import com.datastax.driver.core.Session;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LogEvent;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.ManagerFactory;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.db.AbstractDatabaseManager;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.db.ColumnMapping;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.convert.DateTypeConverter;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.convert.TypeConverters;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.net.SocketAddress;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.spi.ThreadContextMap;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.spi.ThreadContextStack;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.util.ReadOnlyStringMap;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.util.Strings;
-
-/**
- * Manager for a Cassandra appender instance.
- */
-public class CassandraManager extends AbstractDatabaseManager {
-
-    private static final int DEFAULT_PORT = 9042;
-
-    private final Cluster cluster;
-    private final String keyspace;
-    private final String insertQueryTemplate;
-    private final List<ColumnMapping> columnMappings;
-    private final BatchStatement batchStatement;
-    // re-usable argument binding array
-    private final Object[] values;
-
-    private Session session;
-    private PreparedStatement preparedStatement;
-
-    private CassandraManager(final String name, final int bufferSize, final Cluster cluster,
-                             final String keyspace, final String insertQueryTemplate,
-                             final List<ColumnMapping> columnMappings, final BatchStatement batchStatement) {
-        super(name, bufferSize);
-        this.cluster = cluster;
-        this.keyspace = keyspace;
-        this.insertQueryTemplate = insertQueryTemplate;
-        this.columnMappings = columnMappings;
-        this.batchStatement = batchStatement;
-        this.values = new Object[columnMappings.size()];
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    protected void startupInternal() throws Exception {
-        session = cluster.connect(keyspace);
-        preparedStatement = session.prepare(insertQueryTemplate);
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    protected boolean shutdownInternal() throws Exception {
-        session.close();
-        cluster.close();
-        return true;
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    protected void connectAndStart() {
-        // a Session automatically manages connections for us
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    protected void writeInternal(final LogEvent event) {
-        for (int i = 0; i < columnMappings.size(); i++) {
-            final ColumnMapping columnMapping = columnMappings.get(i);
-            if (ThreadContextMap.class.isAssignableFrom(columnMapping.getType())
-                || ReadOnlyStringMap.class.isAssignableFrom(columnMapping.getType())) {
-                values[i] = event.getContextData().toMap();
-            } else if (ThreadContextStack.class.isAssignableFrom(columnMapping.getType())) {
-                values[i] = event.getContextStack().asList();
-            } else if (Date.class.isAssignableFrom(columnMapping.getType())) {
-                values[i] = DateTypeConverter.fromMillis(event.getTimeMillis(), columnMapping.getType().asSubclass(Date.class));
-            } else {
-                values[i] = TypeConverters.convert(columnMapping.getLayout().toSerializable(event),
-                    columnMapping.getType(), null);
-            }
-        }
-        final BoundStatement boundStatement = preparedStatement.bind(values);
-        if (batchStatement == null) {
-            session.execute(boundStatement);
-        } else {
-            batchStatement.add(boundStatement);
-        }
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    protected boolean commitAndClose() {
-        if (batchStatement != null) {
-            session.execute(batchStatement);
-        }
-        return true;
-    }
-
-    public static CassandraManager getManager(final String name, final SocketAddress[] contactPoints,
-                                              final ColumnMapping[] columns, final boolean useTls,
-                                              final String clusterName, final String keyspace, final String table,
-                                              final String username, final String password,
-                                              final boolean useClockForTimestampGenerator, final int bufferSize,
-                                              final boolean batched, final BatchStatement.Type batchType) {
-        return getManager(name,
-            new FactoryData(contactPoints, columns, useTls, clusterName, keyspace, table, username, password,
-                useClockForTimestampGenerator, bufferSize, batched, batchType), CassandraManagerFactory.INSTANCE);
-    }
-
-    private static class CassandraManagerFactory implements ManagerFactory<CassandraManager, FactoryData> {
-
-        private static final CassandraManagerFactory INSTANCE = new CassandraManagerFactory();
-
-        @Override
-        public CassandraManager createManager(final String name, final FactoryData data) {
-            final Cluster.Builder builder = Cluster.builder()
-                .addContactPointsWithPorts(data.contactPoints)
-                .withClusterName(data.clusterName);
-            if (data.useTls) {
-                builder.withSSL();
-            }
-            if (Strings.isNotBlank(data.username)) {
-                builder.withCredentials(data.username, data.password);
-            }
-            if (data.useClockForTimestampGenerator) {
-                builder.withTimestampGenerator(new ClockTimestampGenerator());
-            }
-            final Cluster cluster = builder.build();
-
-            final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder("INSERT INTO ").append(data.table).append(" (");
-            for (final ColumnMapping column : data.columns) {
-                sb.append(column.getName()).append(',');
-            }
-            sb.setCharAt(sb.length() - 1, ')');
-            sb.append(" VALUES (");
-            final List<ColumnMapping> columnMappings = new ArrayList<>(data.columns.length);
-            for (final ColumnMapping column : data.columns) {
-                if (Strings.isNotEmpty(column.getLiteralValue())) {
-                    sb.append(column.getLiteralValue());
-                } else {
-                    sb.append('?');
-                    columnMappings.add(column);
-                }
-                sb.append(',');
-            }
-            sb.setCharAt(sb.length() - 1, ')');
-            final String insertQueryTemplate = sb.toString();
-            LOGGER.debug("Using CQL for appender {}: {}", name, insertQueryTemplate);
-            return new CassandraManager(name, data.getBufferSize(), cluster, data.keyspace, insertQueryTemplate,
-                columnMappings, data.batched ? new BatchStatement(data.batchType) : null);
-        }
-    }
-
-    private static class FactoryData extends AbstractFactoryData {
-        private final InetSocketAddress[] contactPoints;
-        private final ColumnMapping[] columns;
-        private final boolean useTls;
-        private final String clusterName;
-        private final String keyspace;
-        private final String table;
-        private final String username;
-        private final String password;
-        private final boolean useClockForTimestampGenerator;
-        private final boolean batched;
-        private final BatchStatement.Type batchType;
-
-        private FactoryData(final SocketAddress[] contactPoints, final ColumnMapping[] columns, final boolean useTls,
-                            final String clusterName, final String keyspace, final String table, final String username,
-                            final String password, final boolean useClockForTimestampGenerator, final int bufferSize,
-                            final boolean batched, final BatchStatement.Type batchType) {
-            super(bufferSize);
-            this.contactPoints = convertAndAddDefaultPorts(contactPoints);
-            this.columns = columns;
-            this.useTls = useTls;
-            this.clusterName = clusterName;
-            this.keyspace = keyspace;
-            this.table = table;
-            this.username = username;
-            this.password = password;
-            this.useClockForTimestampGenerator = useClockForTimestampGenerator;
-            this.batched = batched;
-            this.batchType = batchType;
-        }
-
-        private static InetSocketAddress[] convertAndAddDefaultPorts(final SocketAddress... socketAddresses) {
-            final InetSocketAddress[] inetSocketAddresses = new InetSocketAddress[socketAddresses.length];
-            for (int i = 0; i < inetSocketAddresses.length; i++) {
-                final SocketAddress socketAddress = socketAddresses[i];
-                inetSocketAddresses[i] = socketAddress.getPort() == 0
-                    ? new InetSocketAddress(socketAddress.getAddress(), DEFAULT_PORT)
-                    : socketAddress.getSocketAddress();
-            }
-            return inetSocketAddresses;
-        }
-    }
-}

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-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
- * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
- * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
- * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache license, Version 2.0
- * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
- * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the license for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the license.
- */
-package org.apache.logging.log4j.nosql.appender.cassandra;
-
-import com.datastax.driver.core.TimestampGenerator;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.util.Clock;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.util.ClockFactory;
-
-/**
- * A {@link TimestampGenerator} implementation using the configured {@link Clock}.
- */
-public class ClockTimestampGenerator implements TimestampGenerator {
-
-    private final Clock clock = ClockFactory.getClock();
-
-    @Override
-    public long next() {
-        return clock.currentTimeMillis();
-    }
-}

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-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
- * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
- * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
- * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache license, Version 2.0
- * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
- * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the license for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the license.
- */
-/**
- * Log4j appender plugin and supporting classes for Apache Cassandra.
- *
- * @see <a href="https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/appenders.html#CassandraAppender">Cassandra Appender manual</a>
- * @since 2.8
- */
-package org.apache.logging.log4j.nosql.appender.cassandra;
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   </dependencies>
 ```
 
-## TODO: Cassandra dependencies (already mentioned in runtime-dependencies.html)
-
 $h2 Requirements
 
 The NoSQL Appenders is dependent on the Log4j 2 API and implementation.

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-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
- * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
- * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
- * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache license, Version 2.0
- * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
- * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the license for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the license.
- */
-package org.apache.logging.log4j.nosql.appender.cassandra;
-
-import java.util.Date;
-import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Map;
-import java.util.UUID;
-import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
-
-import com.datastax.driver.core.Row;
-import com.datastax.driver.core.Session;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.MarkerManager;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.ThreadContext;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.categories.Appenders;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.junit.LoggerContextRule;
-import org.junit.ClassRule;
-import org.junit.Test;
-import org.junit.experimental.categories.Category;
-import org.junit.rules.RuleChain;
-
-import static org.junit.Assert.*;
-
-/**
- * Integration test for CassandraAppender.
- */
-@Category(Appenders.Cassandra.class)
-public class CassandraAppenderIT {
-
-    private static final String DDL = "CREATE TABLE logs (" +
-        "id timeuuid PRIMARY KEY," +
-        "timeid timeuuid," +
-        "message text," +
-        "level text," +
-        "marker text," +
-        "logger text," +
-        "timestamp timestamp," +
-        "mdc map<text,text>," +
-        "ndc list<text>" +
-        ")";
-
-    private static final LoggerContextRule CTX = new LoggerContextRule("CassandraAppenderTest.xml");
-    private static final CassandraRule CASSANDRA = new CassandraRule("test", DDL);
-
-    @ClassRule
-    public static RuleChain rules = RuleChain.outerRule(CASSANDRA).around(CTX);
-
-    @Test
-    public void appendManyEvents() throws Exception {
-        final Logger logger = CTX.getLogger();
-        ThreadContext.put("test", "mdc");
-        ThreadContext.push("ndc");
-        for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++) {
-            logger.info(MarkerManager.getMarker("MARKER"), "Test log message");
-        }
-        ThreadContext.clearAll();
-
-        TimeUnit.SECONDS.sleep(3);
-
-        int i = 0;
-        try (final Session session = CASSANDRA.connect()) {
-            for (final Row row : session.execute("SELECT * FROM logs")) {
-                assertNotNull(row.get("id", UUID.class));
-                assertNotNull(row.get("timeid", UUID.class));
-                assertNotNull(row.get("timestamp", Date.class));
-                assertEquals("Test log message", row.getString("message"));
-                assertEquals("MARKER", row.getString("marker"));
-                assertEquals("INFO", row.getString("level"));
-                assertEquals(getClass().getName(), row.getString("logger"));
-                final Map<String, String> mdc = row.getMap("mdc", String.class, String.class);
-                assertEquals(1, mdc.size());
-                assertEquals("mdc", mdc.get("test"));
-                final List<String> ndc = row.getList("ndc", String.class);
-                assertEquals(1, ndc.size());
-                assertEquals("ndc", ndc.get(0));
-                ++i;
-            }
-        }
-        assertEquals(20, i);
-    }
-}

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-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
- * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
- * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
- * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache license, Version 2.0
- * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
- * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the license for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the license.
- */
-package org.apache.logging.log4j.nosql.appender.cassandra;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.net.InetAddress;
-import java.nio.file.Files;
-import java.nio.file.Path;
-import java.security.Permission;
-import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
-import java.util.concurrent.ThreadFactory;
-
-import com.datastax.driver.core.Cluster;
-import com.datastax.driver.core.Session;
-import org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.LoggingException;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.util.Cancellable;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.util.Closer;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.util.Log4jThreadFactory;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.util.PropertiesUtil;
-import org.junit.rules.ExternalResource;
-
-/**
- * JUnit rule to set up and tear down a Cassandra database instance.
- */
-public class CassandraRule extends ExternalResource {
-
-    private static final ThreadFactory THREAD_FACTORY = Log4jThreadFactory.createThreadFactory("Cassandra");
-
-    private final CountDownLatch latch = new CountDownLatch(1);
-    private final Cancellable embeddedCassandra = new EmbeddedCassandra(latch);
-    private final String keyspace;
-    private final String tableDdl;
-    private Cluster cluster;
-
-    public CassandraRule(final String keyspace, final String tableDdl) {
-        this.keyspace = keyspace;
-        this.tableDdl = tableDdl;
-    }
-
-    public Cluster getCluster() {
-        return cluster;
-    }
-
-    public Session connect() {
-        return cluster.connect(keyspace);
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    protected void before() throws Throwable {
-        final Path root = Files.createTempDirectory("cassandra");
-        Files.createDirectories(root.resolve("data"));
-        final Path config = root.resolve("cassandra.yml");
-        Files.copy(getClass().getResourceAsStream("/cassandra.yaml"), config);
-        System.setProperty("cassandra.config", "file:" + config.toString());
-        System.setProperty("cassandra.storagedir", root.toString());
-        System.setProperty("cassandra-foreground", "true"); // prevents Cassandra from closing stdout/stderr
-        THREAD_FACTORY.newThread(embeddedCassandra).start();
-        latch.await();
-        cluster = Cluster.builder().addContactPoints(InetAddress.getLoopbackAddress()).build();
-        try (final Session session = cluster.connect()) {
-            session.execute("CREATE KEYSPACE " + keyspace + " WITH REPLICATION = " +
-                "{ 'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor': 2 };");
-        }
-        try (final Session session = connect()) {
-            session.execute(tableDdl);
-        }
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    protected void after() {
-        Closer.closeSilently(cluster);
-        embeddedCassandra.cancel();
-    }
-
-    private static class EmbeddedCassandra implements Cancellable {
-
-        private final CassandraDaemon daemon = new CassandraDaemon();
-        private final CountDownLatch latch;
-
-        private EmbeddedCassandra(final CountDownLatch latch) {
-            this.latch = latch;
-        }
-
-        @Override
-        public void cancel() {
-            // LOG4J2-1850 Cassandra on Windows calls System.exit in the daemon stop method
-            if (PropertiesUtil.getProperties().isOsWindows()) {
-                cancelOnWindows();
-            } else {
-                daemon.stop();
-            }
-        }
-
-        private void cancelOnWindows() {
-            final SecurityManager currentSecurityManager = System.getSecurityManager();
-            try {
-                final SecurityManager securityManager = new SecurityManager() {
-                    @Override
-                    public void checkPermission(final Permission permission) {
-                        final String permissionName = permission.getName();
-                        if (permissionName != null && permissionName.startsWith("exitVM")) {
-                            throw new SecurityException("test");
-                        }
-                    }
-                };
-                System.setSecurityManager(securityManager);
-                daemon.stop();
-            } catch (final SecurityException ex) {
-                // ignore
-            } finally {
-                System.setSecurityManager(currentSecurityManager);
-            }
-        }
-
-        @Override
-        public void run() {
-            try {
-                daemon.init(null);
-            } catch (final IOException e) {
-                throw new LoggingException("Cannot initialize embedded Cassandra instance", e);
-            }
-            daemon.start();
-            latch.countDown();
-        }
-    }
-}

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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
- Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
- contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
- this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
- The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
- (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
- the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- limitations under the License.
-
--->
-<Configuration name="CassandraAppenderTest">
-  <Appenders>
-    <Cassandra name="Cassandra" clusterName="Test Cluster" keyspace="test" table="logs" bufferSize="10" batched="true">
-      <SocketAddress host="localhost" port="9042"/>
-      <ColumnMapping name="id" pattern="%uuid{TIME}" type="java.util.UUID"/>
-      <ColumnMapping name="timeid" literal="now()"/>
-      <ColumnMapping name="message" pattern="%message"/>
-      <ColumnMapping name="level" pattern="%level"/>
-      <ColumnMapping name="marker" pattern="%marker"/>
-      <ColumnMapping name="logger" pattern="%logger"/>
-      <ColumnMapping name="timestamp" type="java.util.Date"/>
-      <ColumnMapping name="mdc" type="org.apache.logging.log4j.spi.ThreadContextMap"/>
-      <ColumnMapping name="ndc" type="org.apache.logging.log4j.spi.ThreadContextStack"/>
-    </Cassandra>
-  </Appenders>
-  <Loggers>
-    <Logger name="org.apache.logging.log4j.nosql.appender.cassandra" level="DEBUG">
-      <AppenderRef ref="Cassandra"/>
-    </Logger>
-    <Root level="ERROR"/>
-  </Loggers>
-</Configuration>
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