The cassandra-stress tool is a powerful tool for benchmarking Cassandra performance. It allows quite sophisticated specification of data and loads profiles to run against almost any table definition y...

Instaclustr recently announced coming availability of our Managed Service for Elassandra, which delivers Elasticsearch integrated with Apache Cassandra. This blog post drills down to explain the featu...

When configuring Apache Cassandra to work in a new environment or with a new application or service we sometimes find ourselves asking “What’s the difference between broadcast_address and broadcast_rp...

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Regression Analysis is (relatively) easyHypothesis: Using only a subset of GC metrics we can compute linear regression functions using only heap space used to predict when the next GC occurs. To do th...

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AbstractThis paper describes the process that we follow atInstaclustr to design a Cassandra data model for ourcustomers.While not a prescriptive, formal process it does definephases and steps that our...

The ‘ALLOW FILTERING’ clause in Cassandra  CQL provides greatly increased flexibility of querying. However, this flexibility comes at a substantial performance cost that should be aware of before usin...