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Silicon Valley Cassandra User Groupread more

DataStax Community 1.1.4, which includes Apache Cassandra 1.1.4, is now available on our downloads page. All changes can be found in the CHANGES.txt file in the main installation directory.

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 Josep Blanquer who is a senior systems architect at RightScale. DataStax: Josep, thanks for taking the time to talk with us today.read more

The Apache Solr team has recently announced a beta release for the long awaited SolrCloud implementation, that makes building distributed Solr clusters easier and more fault tolerant. I thought it would be helpful to explain where SolrCloud and DSE ... [More] Search overlap and where they differ. The Basics Both DSE and SolrCloud are built on Apache Solr.  Apache Solr is, at its core, a service layer for Lucene.read more [Less]

NYC Cassandra User Group SimpleReach is a social intelligence tool for content creators. In order to handle both the data ingestion and data volume, we've employed Cassandra to store, process and aid in the display and organization of that data. ... [More] We've learned a lot of lessons along the way about the right and wrong things to do both with data in general and with Cassandra in particular. These are some of those lessons. read more [Less]

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 talked to Chris Keller who is a solutions architect for CSC and has NASA Ames as one of his customers. DataStax: Chris, many thanks for chatting with us today.read more

The Alerts feature in DataStax OpsCenter allows users to be notified when specific metrics have exceeded configurable thresholds.read more

Cassandra DC Meetupread more

Just a quick note to let you know that we’ve posted the videos of all the great sessions from this year’s Cassandra Summit.read more

We often talk about how Cassandra is designed from the ground up for fault-tolerance and availability.read more