Apache Cassandra 4.1 was a massive effort by the Cassandra community to build on what was released in 4.0, and it is the first of what we intend to be yearly releases.

Apache Cassandra software is available for no cost under the Apache License version 2.0. DataStax, where Ellis serves as chief technology officer, ...

Like Apache Cassandra, the peer-to-peer Apache Ignite computing platform is always available. The failure of a node does not prevent applications from writing to and reading from defined backup nodes.

At the forefront is open-source, NoSQL database Apache Cassandra. Thanks to the new data-driven demands of today’s enterprises, it’s getting its day in the sun.

Of course, the Apache Cassandra community had to get its own house in order first. As Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols recounted in his exhaustive post, Apache Cassandra 4.0 is quite definitive, ...

This quote has a prophetic ring to it, especially considering my co-author Eben Hewitt included it in the 2010 first edition of this book we wrote, back when Apache Cassandra, the open-source ...

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has released a beta for Apache Cassandra 4.0. According to the ASF, contributors have made over 1,000 bug fixes, improvements, and new features for version 4.0.

When the Cassandra 4 public beta is available for download, you can get it from the Apache Cassandra website. Come that day -- I estimate it will be in late June or early July if you're a ...

Since 2013, Apache Cassandra has used the Paxos consensus protocol, but it only enables a form of “lightweight” transactions (as it doesn’t work at the database “table” level). MongoDB delivered full ...

Apache Cassandra is perfectly suited to meet these needs as it’s geographically distributed, and it can respond to spikes in traffic without adverse effects. Credit: iStock ...