New Features in Apache Cassandra 4.1

3/2/2023

This section covers the new features in Apache Cassandra 4.1.

Paxos v2
Guardrails
New and Improved Configuration Format
Client-side Password Hashing
Partition Denylist
Lots of CQL improvements
New SSTable Identifiers
Native Transport rate limiting
Top partition tracking per table
Hint Window consistency
Pluggability
- Memtable
- Encryption
- CQLSH Authentication
and much more

Originally sourced from https://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/cassandra/new/index.html