As the Apache Cassandra community ventures down the homestretch of readying release 4.0 of the open source platform for release, there is light at the end of the tunnel as DataStax has started ...

Alongside making things easier for those getting started, Cassandra 4.1 has also seen many improvements in performance and extensibility. The biggest change here is pluggability.

Cassandra, originally developed inside Facebook in 2008, was known from the start for its ability to scale quickly and the capability to access huge amounts of data with very little latency.

Since 2013, Apache Cassandra has used the Paxos consensus protocol, but it only enables a form of “lightweight” transactions (as it doesn’t work at the database “table” level). MongoDB delivered full ...

You might have heard of Apache Cassandra, the open-source NoSQL database. And you might know that some big, very successful companies rely on it, including LinkedIn, Netflix, The Home Depot, and ...

Instaclustr Pty Ltd., which sells hosted and managed versions of popular open-source software Apache Cassandra, Spark and Kafka, is giving back to the community with three projects of its own.The ...