I recently did an upgrade of 200+ nodes of Cassandra across multiple environments sitting behind multiple applications using the cstar tool. We chose the cstar tool because, out of all automation opti...

Clone Jepsen repository Configure to mount scalar-jepsen directory by editing ${JEPSEN_ROOT}/docker/docker-compose.dev.yml like the following control: volumes: - ${JEPSEN_ROOT}:/jepsen ...

Previously on Jepsen, we learned about Kafka’s proposed replication design.Cassandra is a Dynamo system; like Riak, it divides a hash ring into a several chunks, and keeps N replicas of each chunk on ...

IntroductionAs a developer, I've found that looking for new ways to effectively test software has a dramatic payoff. We've written about some of the techniques we use at DataStax in the past. These wr...

michelangelus - FotoliaNews Stay informed about the latest enterprise technology news and product updates. DataStax has integrated the open source Stargate API 1.0 release into its Astra DBaaS platfor...

Open source at the core, but not yet open in the public sense… arguably the tech industry’s most prominent enterprise Apache Cassandra company DataStax has been cooking it up over the Covid-19 lockdow...

Recently, there’s been a new change proposal for Cassandra indexing that attempts to reduce the tradeoff between usability and stability: Making the WHERE clause much more interesting and useful for e...