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The long, long reigns of popular databases
3/11/2022
Database habits die hard. Just ask Oracle, which continues to rake in billions in database revenue despite being one of developers’ “most dreaded” databases, according to Stack Overflow’s 2021 survey ...
Instaclustr Offers Apache Cassandra 4.0 On Its Managed Platform
Instaclustr has announced the general availability of Apache Cassandra 4.0 on its Managed Platform. Instaclustr offers Cassandra as its flagship NoSQL database solution, alongside complementary soluti...
Apache Cassandra Lunch #62: Grafana Dashboard for Apache Cassandra - Business Platform Team
In Apache Cassandra Lunch #62, guest speaker Sarma Pydipally presented on the Grafana Dashboard for Cassandra. The live recording of Cassandra Lunch, which includes a more in-depth discussion and a de...
Kerberos Authenticator for Apache Cassandra
3/10/2022
Coming right on the heels of announcing an open source LDAP authenticator for Apache Cassandra, we’re proud to now release an open source Kerberos authenticator. The new project makes Kerberos’ celebr...
Apache Cassandra LDAP Authentication
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 ...
Securing Apache Cassandra with Application Level Encryption
One topic that commonly comes up when discussing Apache Cassandra with large enterprise clients is whether Cassandra can match feature X (audit logging, encryption at rest, column level security, etc)...
GitHub - radicalbit/cassandra-ssl-client-to-node-example: How to configure a client with SSL to connect to a SSL encrypted Cassandra cluster
How to configure a client with SSL to connect to a SSL encrypted Cassandra cluster Apache-2.0 License 4 stars ...
DataStax's new security capabilities in Astra DB prevents unauthorized access to sensitive PII data - Help Net Security
3/9/2022
DataStax announced that Astra DB now offers new levels of data access and security with new single sign-on (SSO) via SAML integration and data-at-rest security with self-managed encryption keys or bri...