Instaclustr Blog Archive
2017 | Page 4
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                                    - Apache Cassandra
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 Elasticsearch™ on Cassandra Features OverviewInstaclustr 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... Learn MoreInstaclustrMay 25, 2017
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                                    - Apache Cassandra
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 Testing Multiple Tables with Cassandra StressThe 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. Limitations One significant limitation... Learn MoreBen SlaterMay 16, 2017
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                                    - Apache Cassandra
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 Cassandra’s Place in the NoSQL WorldA 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... Learn MoreInstaclustrMay 03, 2017
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                                    - Apache Cassandra
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 Securing Apache Cassandra with Application Level EncryptionOne 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 –... Learn MoreBen SlaterApril 28, 2017
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                                    - Feature Releases
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 Instaclustr Free Trials Now Available on Google Compute PlatformInstaclustr 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... Learn MoreInstaclustrApril 10, 2017
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                                    - Apache Spark
- Featured Blogs
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 Debugging Jobs in the Apache Spark™ UIOverview 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... Learn MoreAlwyn DavisApril 08, 2017
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                                    - Apache Cassandra
- Featured Blogs
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 Maximising Availability with Apache CassandraIntroduction A number of recent of events have had us thinking more than usual about maximising availability with Apache Cassandra. The first of these was the recent AWS S3 outage. While this outage did not have any effect on any of our managed clusters (other than few backup jobs being skipped) it obviously did affect... Learn MoreBen SlaterMarch 06, 2017
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                                    - Apache Cassandra
- Feature Releases
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 Instaclustr delivers improved Apache Cassandra price/performance with AWS R4 Instance TypesInstaclustr has released support for two new R4 class node configurations for using with our Apache Cassandra and Apache Spark Managed Service. The R4 is AWS newest instance type. It is in the “Memory Optimized” family of AWS offering meaning it offers a relatively high ratio of memory to CPU (for example, 30.5GB of RAM... Learn MoreBen SlaterFebruary 15, 2017
