Apache Cassandra

Apache Cassandra 4.0 Lands: Five Times Faster, Audit Logging and More

Apache Cassandra, the distributed NoSQL database, ranks highly in the "most dreaded" database category of Stack Overflow's annual developer survey.…

DataStax Fights Back with Addition of Open Source Cassandra Support

DataStax was among the Apache Cassandra specialists wobbled by AWS's decision to offer a managed service of the open source…

AWS: Yes, We’re Launching a Managed Apache Cassandra Service; No, We’re Not Monsters

Last year at Re:Invent -- AWS's 60,000-strong annual jamboree in Vegas -- the company ruffled some feathers by announcing a…

MongoDB’s CEO on Open Source, Taking on Oracle, and Scaling Up

"A database is the heart of any application, because data is the heart of any application. Think about Amazon: it's a…

Chaos in the Cloud? DataStax Aims to Make a Virtue of a Vice

While DataStax has been heavily involved in Apache Cassandra conferences in recent years, the company's "Accelerate" event in Washington this…

Q&A: DataStax President Steve Rowland, as Apache Cassandra Turns 10

How did Apache Cassandra start? Cassandra was developed at Facebook as a way to handle the huge volumes of data…