Easy Cassandra Stress (easy-cass-stress) Tool

Clone the Ezcast stress source code, install JDK 17, compile to the easy cass stress jar, and configure a tools folder, path, and script to run on the Cassandra server.

Review two Cassandra clusters and learn to generate stress with the easy CAS stress tool, noting authentication disabled on one cluster and authentication enabled on the other.

Learn to use the easy cass stress tool to list workloads, run the key value workload on a Cassandra cluster, and create a keyspace and a key value table.

Explore how to configure the easy-cass-stress tool with options for consistency levels, compaction and compression settings, workload duration, keyspace and schema handling, and metrics outputs.

Execute Cassandra workloads with easy-cass-stress, exploring iterations, duration, threads, read, write, and delete rates, and data generation functions to stress test and analyze performance.

Run a 50-iteration key-value workload with easy-cass-stress, showing authentication, a custom keyspace via -keyspace, and no-schema to skip creating spaces and tables, yielding 23 writes and 27 reads.

Learn how the easy-cass-stress tool reports on-screen metrics, Prometheus endpoints, and CSV exports for writes, reads, deletes, latency (including P99), requests per second, and errors.

Explore other stress tools for Cassandra, including the basic Cassandra stress tool and NoSQL bench, noting that Easycast stress tool remains the best and easiest option for Cassandra clusters.

Explore the easy-cass-stress tool for Cassandra workloads, from Kotlin-based development to building with the Java Development Kit (JDK), running on authenticated and unauthenticated clusters, and analyzing its metrics and options.