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Tuesday 30th August 2016 by Instaclustr
*Please note due to extremely limited customer demand, we no longer support ScyllaDB. Please contact our Sales Team should have you have any further questions. Instaclustr has released a preview of ScyllaDB on the Instaclustr Managed Service on Amazon Web Service, Microsoft Azure, and IBM SoftLayer. Scylla is an Apache Cassandra compatible data store implemented in […]
Technical Technical — Cassandra
Wednesday 24th August 2016 by Ben Slater
In the previous two posts of this series (Part 1 and Part 2) I covered some of the basic commands of cassandra-stress. In this post I will start looking at the use of the stress YAML file for more advanced stress scenarios, particularly where you want to run stress against a schema that matches one […]
Technical Technical — Cassandra
Tuesday 23rd August 2016 by Ben Slater
This is the second of a series of articles explain the operations of cassandra-stress. See here for Part 1. This series of blogs has been created as part of my prep for my Cassandra summit talk ‘Load Testing Cassandra Applications’. In this post we’ll examine the operation of the mixed command in Cassandra stress and […]Technical Technical — Cassandra
Friday 19th August 2016 by Ben Slater
Overview: Cassandra Stress This is the first in a series of blog post I’m planning to create as part of my prep for my Cassandra summit talk ‘Load Testing Cassandra Applications’. cassandra-stress is a great utility for stress testing Cassandra. However, available documentation is a little sparse and it not always entirely clear what load […]Technical
Tuesday 16th August 2016 by Ben Slater
Overview Over the last 2 years our range of services and capabilities have grown and we’ve also refined the definition of those services to better meet the demand that we have seen from our customers. Given that change, we thought it would be useful to set out a summary of our offerings, their benefits and what situations […]
Technical Technical — Cassandra
Thursday 4th August 2016 by Robert Marshall
Overview User Defined Functions (UDF) and Aggregates (UDA) have seen a number of improvements in Cassandra version 3.x. In particular the sand boxing of UDF code makes this functionality safer in a production environment and has led us to include Java UDF support in our Cassandra 3.x managed service offering. UDF/UDAs allow the execution of […]Team
Monday 1st August 2016 by Instaclustr
Name Ben Slater Role Chief Product Officer Location Canberra, Australia How did you get started working in IT? I’ve done quite a few jobs in my IT careers, but prior to Instaclustr I worked for Accenture for 10 years with a speciality in BI/Analytics and also some time setting up and running an enterprise managed […]