This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog written by Ben Slater in his capacity as chief product officer at Instaclustr.Instaclustr positions itself as firm offering manage...

Kafkaesque: \ käf-kə-ˈesk \Marked by a senseless, disorienting, menacing, nightmarishly complexity.One morning when I woke from troubled dreams, I decided to blog about something potentially Kafkaesqu...

A simple wrapper script around DSH for Apache Cassandra. Description dsh restricts you to flat groups lists, cdsh wraps dsh to allow you to define your clusters in a single YAML file (~/.cdsh by defa...

Collecting Time Series Vs Storing Time SeriesCassandra is well known as the database of choice when collecting time series events. These may be messages, events or similar transactions that have a tim...

This series of posts present an introduction to Apache Cassandra. It discusses key Cassandra features, its core concepts, how it works under the hood, how it is different from other data stores, data ...

This series of posts present an introduction to Apache Cassandra. It discusses key Cassandra features, its core concepts, how it works under the hood, how it is different from other data stores, data ...

Data modelling in Cassandra revolves around two goals:Spread data evenly among partitions.A read query should (ideally) hit only a single partition.Often you will find yourself in scenarios, and as yo...

This series of posts present an introduction to Apache Cassandra. It discusses key Cassandra features, its core concepts, how it works under the hood, how it is different from other data stores, data ...