Technical Technical — Cassandra
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 by Oracle, SQL Server or some other common enterprise RDBMS technology. In many cases, the answer to this question is no – […]
Feature Releases Technical
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. From today on, any customers signing up for Instaclustr are automatically eligible for a 14 Day Free Trial of Instaclustr’s service running […]
Technical Technical — Spark
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 performance of those methods using the Spark UI. Setup For this post, we will use a Zeppelin+Spark+Cassandra cluster. If you’d like to […]