Blog — April 2017

Technical Technical — Cassandra

Securing Apache Cassandra with Application Level Encryption

Friday 28th April 2017 by Ben Slater

One topic that commonly comes up when discussing Apache Cassandra with large enterprise clients is whether Cassandra can match feature X (audit logging, encryption at rest, column level security, etc) that is supported...

Feature Releases Technical

Instaclustr Free Trials Now Available on Google Compute Platform

Monday 10th April 2017 by Instaclustr

Instaclustr is pleased to announce that, thanks to some help from our friends at Google, we’re now able to make free trials of Instaclustr’s Managed Cassandra, Spark and Zeppelin service available on GCP....

Technical Technical — Spark

Debugging Jobs in the Apache Spark UI

Saturday 8th April 2017 by Alwyn Davis

Overview In this post, we’ll be running a basic Apache Spark job that selects data from a Cassandra database using a couple of different methods.  We will then examine how to compare the...