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We’re please to let you know that DataStax Enterprise service pack 1.0.2 is now available for download. Please see the release notes for the changes included in the service pack and the online documentation for upgrade instructions.

This is my final post in a series (here, here, and here) breaking down the following paragraph from our recent press release that touches on some of the key reasons why people choose Cassandra.  It reads:
Customers this year chose…

I was surprised at how many news stories at the end of 2011 contained predictions that big data would be ‘big’ in 2012, and thought that the chorus of voices talking about big data would lessen a bit in the early part of this year.

How wrong I…

Outside of politics and religion, nothing can get the blood rolling in tech folk’s bodies more than a healthy debate on the merits of operating systems, such as Linux vs. Windows vs. Mac. Personally, I’ve never used Mac in a production environment, but I have plenty of experience with…

Well, you asked and we’ve responded. You said you wanted OpsCenter on Mac on one of the polls we recently took, and now you’ve got your wish.  You can now download and run DataStax OpsCenter on your Mac.

If you want a detailed run-through of how easy it is…

We’ve updated the DataStax Community Server to Apache Cassandra 1.0.7 and it’s now available for download on our community downloads page. All changes can be found in the CHANGES.txt file in the main installation directory. Enjoy!

Earlier today Amazon announced DynamoDB, a hosted database for Amazon Web Services, which prompted several friends and colleagues of mine to ping me for my thoughts.  The reason they asked is because Cassandra was initially created as the combination of Amazon Dynamo’s fully distributed architecture and Google Big Table’s…

Having tackled the fundamentals of the peer-to-peer architecture in my last post, I now want to take a look at the section of this paragraph from our recent press release that touches on one of the most important aspects of running a mission-critical, big data system.…

Indulge me in a little fun on this one.

Did you hear the one about the world largest database company partnering with… umm…. an open source… uhh… database company… to serve as a software layer on their…. hardware?  Oh, never mind — who would believe a tale like…