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What’s New in CQL 3.0
Cassandra 1.1 brings with it some important new developments in the CQL modeling and query language. The changes are deep enough, in fact, that they require a whole new version of the CQL language specification. Most of these changes are related to the big push underway to encourage the use…
Read MoreWhat’s New in OpsCenter 2.0: Multiple Cluster Support
In previous versions of OpsCenter, each installation was limited to managing a single Cassandra or DataStax Enterprise cluster. For many people, this meant deploying OpsCenter multiple times in order to manage their dev and production clusters, or even their many production clusters. This was less than ideal for many of…
Read MoreWhat’s New in OpsCenter 2.0: Visual Backup Management
Managing backups of a distributed database can be difficult. With Cassandra, the first step to backing up your data is taking a snapshot of your data, which creates a new hardlink to every live SSTable. There are several concerns when doing this: the snapshots need to happen simultaneously across…
Read MoreAnnouncing OpsCenter 2.0
Today we are very excited to announce the availability of OpsCenter 2.0. We’ve done a lot to make both OpsCenter Enterprise and Community editions more stable, performant, and scalable. We’ve also made installing and getting started with OpsCenter even easier.
In OpsCenter Enterprise we’ve added three key…
Read MoreNew DataStax / Cassandra AMI Ready
Just a quick head’s up that we have a new AMI available that supports DataStax Enterprise 2.0. This means you can easily create a database cluster on Amazon that consists of Cassandra, Hadoop, and Solr nodes that can easily tackle your real-time, batch analytics, and enterprise search workloads.
Our…
Read MoreDataStax Enterprise: Cassandra with Solr Integration Details
DataStax Enterprise 2.0 (DSE) was released recently in NYC and it’s generated quite a bit of interest due, in part, to the new Apache Solr search integration. This post will describe how this Cassandra-Solr integration works and how it can help you if you are an existing Cassandra…
Read MoreAdvanced Time Series with Cassandra
Cassandra is an excellent fit for time series data, and it’s widely used for storing many types of data that follow the time series pattern: performance metrics, fleet tracking, sensor data, logs, financial data (pricing and ratings histories), user activity, and so on.
A great introduction to this topic is…
Read MoreNew in DataStax Enterprise 2.0: Support for appending files in Cassandra File System
The Cassandra File System (CFS) is a distributed filesystem that allows for easy integration of DataStax Enterprise platform with Hadoop. It implements the HDFS API on top of Cassandra. Therefore, you can run your Hadoop MapReduce Jobs unchanged on DataStax Enterprise analytical nodes. Additionally, thanks…
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