Important Notice

• Priam 3.11 branch supports Cassandra 3.x. Netflix internally uses Apache Cassandra 3.0.19.

Table of Contents

TL;DR

Features

Compatibility

Installation

Additional Info

• Cluster Management
• Changelog

TL;DR

Priam is a process/tool that runs alongside Apache Cassandra to automate the following:

• Backup and recovery (Complete and incremental)
• Token management
• Seed discovery
• Configuration
• Support AWS environment

Apache Cassandra is a highly available, column oriented database: http://cassandra.apache.org.

The name 'Priam' refers to the King of Troy in Greek mythology, who was the father of Cassandra.

Priam is actively developed and used at Netflix.

Features

• Token management using SimpleDB
• Support multi-region Cassandra deployment in AWS via public IP.
• Automated security group update in multi-region environment.
• Backup SSTables from local ephemeral disks to S3.
• Uses Snappy compression to compress backup data on the fly.
• Backup throttling
• Pluggable modules for future enhancements (support for multiple data storage).
• APIs to list and restore backup data.
• REST APIs for backup/restore and other operations

Compatibility

See Compatibility for details.

Installation

See Setup for details.

Cluster Management

Basic configuration/REST API's to manage cassandra cluster. See Cluster Management for details.

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md