Blogs — May 2017

Technical Technical — Cassandra Technical — Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch on Cassandra Features Overview

Thursday 25th May 2017 by Instaclustr

Instaclustr recently announced coming availability of our Managed Service for Elassandra, which delivers Elasticsearch integrated with Apache Cassandra. This blog post drills down to explain the features and advantages of Elassandra – the best of Cassandra and ElasticSearch. Elassandra adds the power of ElasticSearch’s fast, powerful indexing and querying to Cassandra.  By embedding Elasticsearch into Cassandra’s […]

Technical Technical — Cassandra

Testing Multiple Tables with Cassandra Stress

Tuesday 16th May 2017 by Ben Slater

The cassandra-stress tool is a powerful tool for benchmarking Cassandra performance. It allows quite sophisticated specification of data and loads profiles to run against almost any table definition you can create in Cassandra. We’ve previously published detailed blog posts on the use of cassandra-stress: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. One significant limitation of […]

Technical — Elasticsearch Feature Releases

Managed Service for Elassandra provided by Instaclustr

Tuesday 9th May 2017 by Instaclustr

Elassandra gives you the power of ElasticSearch to search your data directly from Cassandra – without developing custom integration or synchronisation code. Instaclustr, the best way to run Apache Cassandra in the cloud, is excited to announce the expansion of our platform from Apache Cassandra and Apache Spark to include Elassandra and Kibana as an […]

Technical Technical — Cassandra

Cassandra’s Place in the NoSQL World

Wednesday 3rd May 2017 by Ben Slater

A question that we commonly get asked is “how does Apache Cassandra compare to NoSQL technology X?”. While the easy answer is to say “It’s just better”, the truth of course isn’t that simple. NoSQL encompasses a much more diverse range of technologies than the relational database world with specific NoSQL products suited to particular […]