This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Ben Bromhead in his capacity as chief technology officer at Instaclustr — a company that provides a managed service platform of ...

DataStax recently released K8ssandra, an open-source distribution of Apache Cassandra for Kubernetes. K8ssandra aims to provide a "production-ready platform", and this includes automation for operatio...

Retested with: Ansible version 2.9.12 Target host OS: Ubuntu 16.04.6 DSE Installation is retested with the following DSE versions. Lower versions of DSE (5.0, 4.8, etc.) are already EOL (end-of-lif...

Apache Cassandra 4.0 beta was released August 31, 2020, the first major update since 2017, and a groundbreaking achievement for the open-source database community. The update focuses on performance im...

What's next? Moving to cloud-native applications and data with Kubernetes and Apache Cassandra November 4, 2020 Patrick McFadin #apache cassandra #cloud...

We have improved Apache Cassandra's ability to handle high throughput workloads, while having enough safeguards in place to protect itself from potentially going out of memory. In order to better expl...