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psadhu edited this page Feb 17, 2012 · 10 revisions

What is Priam?

Priam is a co-process that runs alongside Cassandra on every node to provide the following functionality:

Perform backups and recovery
Automated token assignment
Configuration management
Provide REST API to query cassandra metrics

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

Priam has been in use at Netflix since mid 2011. It currently supports running Cassandra in AWS environment.