Latest version of Apache's open source distributed database can pack two billion columns into a row, which could be useful to big data cloud computing projects The cadre of volunteer developers ...

Apache has just released Apache Cassandra v2.0, the latest version of its popular highly-scalable, big data distributed database.

Apache Cassandra is a free, open source NoSQL database designed to manage very large data sets (think petabytes) across large clusters of commodity servers. Among many distinguishing features ...

How Cassandra 5.0 improves data density and performance Beyond the new indexing approach, Cassandra 5.0 introduces a unified compaction strategy that significantly increases data density per node.

DataStax’ Brisk Uses: High-volume websites – Provide real-time data access and storage for millions of simultaneous users. Directly perform Hive analysis on the latest data, and immediately ...

DataStax markets the DataStax Enterprise big data platform that combines the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database with Hadoop and Apache Solr, the latter an open-source enterprise search technology.

We are generating a massive amount of data. This isn’t just hyperbole. Social networking activity streams, sensor data, personal information collected to personalize a user experience -- it’s ...

San Mateo, Calif.-based DataStax has about 300 customers -- growing from a mere 11 customers in 2011 -- that include startups and 20 of the Fortune 100 ...

Apache Spark with Java 8 is proving to be the perfect match for Big Data. Spark 1.0 was just released this May, and it’s already surpassed Hadoop in popularity on the Web. Java 8, the latest version, ...

Pentaho is continuing its efforts to make big data a first -class citizen in business analytics. In October of last year, the open source business analytics provider began its efforts to ...