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<h1 class="page">Change Data Capture</h1>
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<p>Change data capture (CDC) provides a mechanism to flag specific tables
for archival as well as rejecting writes to those tables once a
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enable CDC on a table by setting the table property <code>cdc=true</code> (either
when <a href="../cql/ddl.html#create-table" class="page"><code>creating the table</code></a> or
<a href="../cql/ddl.html#alter-table" class="page"><code>altering it</code></a>). Upon CommitLogSegment creation,
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<code>cassandra.yaml</code>. On segment fsync to disk, if CDC data is present
anywhere in the segment a &lt;segment_name&gt;_cdc.idx file is also created
with the integer offset of how much data in the original segment is
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<p>We we use an index file rather than just encouraging clients to parse
the log realtime off a memory mapped handle as data can be reflected in
a kernel buffer that is not yet persisted to disk. Parsing only up to
the listed offset in the _cdc.idx file will ensure that you only parse
CDC data for data that is durable.</p>
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<p>A threshold of total disk space allowed is specified in the yaml at
which time newly allocated CommitLogSegments will not allow CDC data
until a consumer parses and removes files from the specified cdc_raw
directory.</p>
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<pre class="highlightjs highlight"><code class="language-cql hljs" data-lang="cql">CREATE TABLE foo (a int, b text, PRIMARY KEY(a)) WITH cdc=true;
ALTER TABLE foo WITH cdc=true;
ALTER TABLE foo WITH cdc=false;</code></pre>
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<p>The following cassandra.yaml options are available for CDC:</p>
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<dt class="hdlist1"><code>cdc_enabled</code> (default: false)</dt>
<dd>
<p>Enable or disable CDC operations node-wide.</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1"><code>cdc_raw_directory</code> (default: <code>$CASSANDRA_HOME/data/cdc_raw</code>)</dt>
<dd>
<p>Destination for CommitLogSegments to be moved after all corresponding
memtables are flushed.</p>
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<dt class="hdlist1"><code>cdc_free_space_in_mb</code>: (default: min of 4096 and 1/8th volume space)</dt>
<dd>
<p>Calculated as sum of all active CommitLogSegments that permit CDC<br>
all flushed CDC segments in <code>cdc_raw_directory</code>.</p>
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<dt class="hdlist1"><code>cdc_free_space_check_interval_ms</code> (default: 250)</dt>
<dd>
<p>When at capacity, we limit the frequency with which we re-calculate
the space taken up by <code>cdc_raw_directory</code> to prevent burning CPU
cycles unnecessarily. Default is to check 4 times per second.</p>
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<p>Use a
<a href="https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/e31e216234c6b57a531cae607e0355666007deb2/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/commitlog/CommitLogReader.java">CommitLogReader.java</a>.
Usage is
<a href="https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/e31e216234c6b57a531cae607e0355666007deb2/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/commitlog/CommitLogReplayer.java#L132-L140">fairly
straightforward</a> with a
<a href="https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/e31e216234c6b57a531cae607e0355666007deb2/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/commitlog/CommitLogReader.java#L71-L103">variety
of signatures</a> available for use. In order to handle mutations read from
disk, implement
<a href="https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/e31e216234c6b57a531cae607e0355666007deb2/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/commitlog/CommitLogReadHandler.java">CommitLogReadHandler</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>Do not enable CDC without some kind of consumption process in-place.</strong></p>
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<p>If CDC is enabled on a node and then on a table, the
<code>cdc_free_space_in_mb</code> will fill up and then writes to CDC-enabled
tables will be rejected unless some consumption process is in place.</p>
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<p><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12148">JIRA ticket</a></p>
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