Spotify and The Last Pickle (TLP) have collaborated over the past year to build Medusa, a backup and restore system for Apache Cassandra which is now fully open sourced under the Apache License 2.0.Ba...

In an earlier post, I presented the new UDF & UDA features introduced by Cassandra 2.2. In this blog post, we’ll play with UDA and see how it can be leveraged for analytics use-cases and all the cavea...

In most programming languages, i.e. Scala or Java, we can play with object constructs and create our own classes and instances out of it. A similar construct is also provided by Cassandra: UDT, which ...

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Upgrading Apache Cassandra™ to DataStax Enterprise.Tip: DataStax is offering a complimentary half-day Upgrade Assessment. This assessment is a DataStax Services engagement designed to assess the upgra...

I’ve been working at Chronopost, the French leader of express shipping, for most my carrier. In 2013, fed up with the inability of RDBMS to scale, I came up with a proposal of experimenting with C* in...

I started to remember why did I start blogging. The answer is “to collect my experience and share it publicly”. So, I’ll keep this going and now I want to remember how to upgrade the Cassandra cluste...

Reading Time: 5 minutes Welcome back, everyone. I have been working on Cassandra for quite some time now but never actually got to explore its working in depth.We know that its decentralized nature, a...