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Cassandra 4.0 Data Center Security Enhancements
7/20/2020
Apache Cassandra versions 3.x and below have an all or nothing approach when it comes the datacenter user authorization security model. That is, a user has access to all datacenters in the cluster or ...
Virtual tables are coming in Cassandra 4.0
One of the exciting features coming in Cassandra 4.0 is the addition of Virtual Tables. They will expose elements like configuration settings, metrics, or running compactions through the CQL interface...
Java 11 Support in Apache Cassandra 4.0
At the end of July, support for Java 11 was merged into the Apache Cassandra trunk, which will be shipped in the next major release, Cassandra 4.0. Prior to this, Cassandra 3.0 only ran using Java 8,...
Incremental Repair Improvements in Cassandra 4
In our previous post, “Should you use incremental repair?”, we recommended to use subrange full repairs instead of incremental repair as CASSANDRA-9143 could generate some severe instabilities on a ru...
Even Higher Availability with 5x Faster Streaming in Cassandra 4.0
Posted on April 09, 2019 by The Apache Cassandra Community« Back to the Apache Cassandra BlogStreaming is a process where nodes of a cluster exchange data in the form of SSTables. Streaming can kick i...
Battle Tested From Day One
Posted on July 20, 2020 by The Apache Cassandra Community« Back to the Apache Cassandra BlogThis is the most stable Apache Cassandra in history; you should start using Apache Cassandra 4.0 Beta today ...
Cassandra Chaos Engineering With Litmus
In this blog, I will talk about chaos engineering on Cassandra with Litmus. Before jumping in, let's do a quick recap on Litmus. Litmus is a framework for practicing Chaos Engineering in cloud-native ...
Cassandra Multi-AZ Data Replication
7/15/2020
August 19, 2015 | Comments(7) | Apache Cassandra is an open source non-relational/NOSQL database. It is massively scalable and is designed to handle large amounts o...