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Silicon Valley Cassandra User Group Since David first blogged about it, the Cassandra-backed Valhalla distributed file system design has evolved considerably. Imagine delivering a highly available network file system to tens of thousands of ... [More] containers with full directory support and with the 90th percentile latency better than a local rotating disk. Imagine doing it for 1/3 the cost of renting a single NetApp box from Rackspace. David will walk through walk through lessons learned in Pantheon's data models and operations. Speaker Bio: David is the recognized leader in the Drupal ecosystem when it comes to scalability and database optimization. He serves as a member of the Drupal.org Infrastructure and Security teams. A cofounder of Four Kitchens, he’s also worked with the Wikimedia Foundation, Creative Commons and the Internet Archive, and is a permanent member of the Drupal Association. Sunnyvale, CA - USA Thursday, November 15 at 7:00 PM Attending: 1 Details: http://www.meetup.com/silicon-valley-cassandra-user-group/events/84849292/ [Less]

Silicon Valley Cassandra User Group Since David first blogged about it, the Cassandra-backed Valhalla distributed file system design has evolved considerably.read more

Programming Hive has been published! read more

This article is one in a series of quick-hit interviews with companies using Apache Cassandra and/or DataStax Enterprise for key parts of their business. For this interview, we spoke with Paul Fremantle who is the CTO for WSO2 and also VP of Apache Synapse. DataStax: Paul, thanks for taking the time to chat with us today.read more

Because Cassandra is designed for use with large active data sets, it is important to consider bulk loading options for setting up or migrating to a Cassandra cluster.read more

DSE Search provides full text search feature for Cassandra. In principle, columns stored in the database can be indexed by Solr, which is plugged into Cassandra using the secondary index API. Each Solr index indexes only the data stored on a single ... [More] node. Let’s take a closer look at what happens when you insert new data or query your database.read more [Less]

DataStax Community 1.1.5, which includes Apache Cassandra 1.1.5, is now available on our downloads page. All changes can be found in the CHANGES.txt file in the main installation directory.

In this short post I would like to introduce readers to the new authorization interface which would be included, along with current one, into upcoming Cassandra 1.1.6 release.read more

I started formulating this post a few weeks back. The draft for how I would argue my point was all over the place. It was not until last night that I realized why. It is because open source is not just something I do it is something that I am. Being ... [More] involved in open source is a powerful transforming force in both your career and your life.read more [Less]

OpsCenter is a graphical tool for managing your Apache Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise clusters. While it is useful in monitoring your production Cassandra clusters, a lot of time is spent working with a development cluster when you are building ... [More] an application. Running OpsCenter against a single node development cluster is straightforward with the current documentation.read more [Less]