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A Quick Tour of Internal Authentication and Authorization Security in DataStax Enterprise and Apache Cassandra

By Robin Schumacher - February 26, 2013 | 0 Comments

Security has been a notable weakness in nearly every NoSQL database, a fact that was highlighted in a 2012 InformationWeek special report entitled “Why NoSQL Equals No Security...” Recognizing that a comprehensive security framework is needed for NoSQL, and due to very high demand from both customers and the open source community, we decided to make security one of the key areas of focus for version 3.0 of DataStax Enterprise and Cassandra.

Distributed Teams at DataStax Followup

By sven@datastax.com - January 31, 2013 | 1 Comment

Here are some thoughts on managing a high performance team that is spread across multiple continents doing complex software development. This comes from the perspective of someone who previously had most of his team in one location (a few remote folks, maybe some outsourcing, but nothing like THIS).

Hiring For a Distributed Team

By sven@datastax.com - January 30, 2013 | 0 Comments

Some special consideration come to play when trying to hire for a distributed team. There are special challenges, but also unique opportunities.

Metrics in Apache Cassandra 1.2

By Yuki Morishita - January 30, 2013 | 0 Comments

Apache Cassandra exposes various kind of internal metrics from client read/write request latencies to ColumnFamily’s Bloom filter false positive ratio through JMX...

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