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Using Cassandra Stress to model a time series workload - Instaclustr
9/13/2018
MotivationWhen examining whether Cassandra is a good fit for your needs, it is good practice to stress test Cassandra using a workload that looks similar to the expected workload in Production. In the...
AWS Lambda with Managed Cassandra - Part 1: Let's Build a POC - Instaclustr
Serverless architecture is an attractive solution for both small businesses and large enterprises. The former gains the ability to go to market quickly while the latter are able to reduce IT costs by ...
Apache Cassandra LDAP Authentication - Instaclustr
We’ve seen an increasing need for LDAP integration into Apache Cassandra, and continually hearing of cases where people have written their own LDAP authenticators for Cassandra.However, if you search ...
Instaclustr Open-sources Cassandra sstable Analysis Tools
At Instaclustr we spend a lot of time managing Cassandra clusters – we have team of engineers that 24×7 do nothing but manage Cassandra clusters. Big clusters, tiny clusters, clusters with awesome dat...
instaclustr/cassandra-sstable-tools
$ git clone git@github.com:instaclustr/cassandra-sstable-tools.git $ cd cassandra-sstable-tools # Select the correct branch for major version (default is cassandra-3.11) $ git checkout cassandra-3.11 ...
Update released for Instaclustr sstable analysis tools for Apache Cassandra - Instaclustr
Instaclustr is pleased to announce the latest update for it’s open-sourced sstable analysis tools for Apache Cassandra.These tools, first released in February 2017, help operators to gain an accurate ...
Why We Built an Open Source Cassandra-Operator to Run Apache Cassandra on Kubernetes - Instaclustr
As Kubernetes becomes the de facto for container orchestration, more and more developers (and enterprises) want to run Apache Cassandra on Kubernetes. It’s easy to get started with this – especially c...
Cassandra Collections: Hidden Tombstones and How to Avoid Them - Instaclustr
OverviewMulti-value data types (sets, lists and maps) are a powerful feature of Cassandra, aiding you in denormalisation while allowing you to still retrieve and set data at a very fine-grained level....