INSTACLUSTR BLOG
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Available Now – Instaclustr Managed Service for Elassandra
Instaclustr, the best way to run Apache Cassandra in the cloud, is excited to announce the release of our Managed Elassandra offering. Elassandra and Kibana are now available as options for automatic provisioning through the Instaclustr Management Console. Elassandra...
Achieving HIPAA compliance using Instaclustr on AWS
Building on our recently announced SOC2 compliance, Instaclustr is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a white paper detailing how clients can achieve HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliance using Instaclustr services....
Instaclustr Security Features Overview
Overview Security has been at the forefront of Instaclustr’s system and operations since day one. We understand that you are trusting us with your valuable data and take that trust very seriously. As part of our security focus, we have recently completed our first...
Instaclustr Achieves SOC 2 Type 1 Compliance
Solution provider becomes first managed Cassandra database service to meet the audit’s rigorous security requirements. Palo Alto, CA — May 12, 2017 — Instaclustr, which provides management, monitoring, and maintenance of Apache Cassandra™ databases, today...
Managed Service for Elassandra provided 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...
Instaclustr Free Trials Now Available on Google Compute Platform
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...
Instaclustr Dynamic Resizing for Apache Cassandra
Apache Cassandra is well known for its ability to scale to whatever size you could possibly need. However, the traditional approach of adding or removing cluster nodes to change cluster capacity can be resource intensive and time-consuming, taking hours or even days...
Benchmarking Cassandra on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Instaclustr’s GCP support has been available for several months now and we have reached a point where we feel confident to publish benchmarks of the performance we are seeing on GCP. Instaclustr’s availability on the Google Cloud Platform means that customers wanting...
Elasticsearch on Cassandra Features Overview
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...
Testing Multiple Tables with Cassandra Stress
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...
Cassandra’s Place in the NoSQL World
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...
TTLRemover: Tool for Removing Cassandra TTLs for Recovery and Testing Purposes
TTLs (time to live) are very useful features of Cassandra. They essentially provide an automatic deletion timer on any piece of data inserted into Cassandra. They can be specified either as part of an insert or update statement or set by default in a table’s schema...
Migrating from a Relational Database to Apache Cassandra
Many applications running today are built using relational database technology such as PostgresSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, or Oracle Database. Relational technology was the mainstay database for applications development for at least 20 years. However, the...
Zero Downtime Migration to Instaclustr
One question we often get from prospective customers is “Can you migrate my existing Cassandra cluster to Instaclustr without any downtime?”. The answer to that is, of course, “YES!”. We have done this on numerous occasions now. This blog gives a brief...
Cassandra NoSQL Data Model Design
Abstract This paper describes the process that we follow at Instaclustr to design a Cassandra data model for our customers. While not a prescriptive, formal process it does define phases and steps...
Instaclustr Masters scholarship in conjunction with University of Canberra
Overview As part of our commitment to contributing back to the Apache Cassandra open source project and the wider community we are always looking for ways we can foster knowledge sharing and improve usability of Cassandra itself. One of the ways we have done so...
Instaclustr Insights: Meet Adam Zegelin
Name Adam Zegelin Role Instaclustr Co-founder and Senior Software Engineer Location Canberra, Australia How did you get started working in IT? It was a natural progression of sorts. I have been interested in computers from an early age. I am also a causal PC...
Instaclustr Insights: Meet Christophe Schmitz
Name Christophe Schmitz Role Senior Software engineer Location Canberra, Australia What has your role as Senior Software Engineer at Instaclustr involved? In the last six months I have mostly been involved in a consultancy role, helping our clients to deliver scalable...