A couple weeks following AWS’s release of Keyspaces, DataStax now has its answer: a managed cloud service based on DataStax Enterprise. The arrival of managed cloud services to Cassandra is key to ...

The quality of artificial intelligence is closely tied to the data used to power it. Learn how four companies build on the Apache Cassandra open source database to deliver big AI value to their ...

In ancient Greek mythology, Cassandra can see into the future, but Apollo places a curse on her so that nobody believes her prophesies. In the context of today's NoSQL computing movement, Apache ...

With so many NoSQL choices, how do you decide on one? Here’s a handy guide for narrowing your choice to three Hadoop gets much of the big data credit, but the reality is that NoSQL databases are far ...

Cassandra is a poster child of the NoSQL world. Originally an open source project sprung out of Facebook, it has been adopted by the Apache Foundation and backed by an enterprise, DataStax, that also ...

“An invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.” This quote has a prophetic ring to it, especially considering my co-author Eben Hewitt ...

After years of development effort and community discussion, the open-source Apache Cassandra 5.0 database is finally generally available. The new database update offers enterprises the promise of ...

After three years of development, the open source Apache Cassandra 4.0 database is now generally available. Apache Cassandra is a distributed NoSQL database that was originally developed at Facebook.

During my decades as a database application developer, I never imagined in my wildest dreams that I would ever have access to a transactional, planet-scale, distributed database, much less that I ...