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Advanced Node Replace
Instaclustr has a number of internal tools and procedures that help us keep Cassandra clusters healthy. One of those tools allows us to replace the instance backing a Cassandra node while keeping the IP’s and data. Dynamic Resizing released in June 2017 uses technology developed for that tool to allow customers to scale Cassandra clusters vertically based on demand.
Learn MoreBen SlaterJanuary 03, 2019 -
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Apache Kafka® 2.0.1 and 2.1.0 – Now Available on Instaclustr Managed Platform
Apache Kafka 2.0.1 and 2.1.0 Now Available on Instaclustr Managed Platform Instaclustr is pleased to announce immediate general availability of Apache Kafka 2.0.1 and Apache Kafka 2.1.0 on the Instaclustr Managed Platform. These release provide a wide range of enhancements to and bug fixes for the capabilities of Apache Kafka. You can view the full...
Learn MoreBen SlaterNovember 28, 2018 -
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Apache Kafka® Benchmarks for AWS, GCP and Azure
At Instaclustr, we are often asked for comparative benchmarking between the different cloud providers we support and the different instances sizes we offer. For our Apache Kafka managed service offering, we have recently completed an extensive benchmarking exercise which we expect will help our customers in evaluating which instance types to use and differing performance...
Learn MoreBen SlaterNovember 27, 2018 -
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Instaclustr support for Cassandra Lucene Index
Instaclustr recently announced that we will be maintaining a new fork of the Cassandra Lucene Index plug in. This blog post provides some background on that decision, Instaclustr’s support for the Lucene Index and our plans for maintaining the fork. Our main motivation behind creating this fork was to allow us to do a better...
Learn MoreBen SlaterOctober 22, 2018 -
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General Availability – Managed Apache Kafka®
Instaclustr announces that our Managed Apache Kafka on the Instaclustr Managed Platform has now reached General Availability with full production SLAs and security controls applied. Apache Kafka adds to Instaclustr’s existing open source offerings of Apache Cassandra, and Elassandra, providing customers the opportunity to use a single managed service provider for a complete suite of...
Learn MoreBen SlaterJune 26, 2018 -
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Open Source Use Cases In Financial Services
Financial services industries such as banking, insurance and capital management have been built on data since they first began. From ancient money lenders with clay tablets to early 20th century clerks with rooms full of ledgers to modern high-frequency trading, efficiently recording, retrieving and analysing data has been a key competitive advantage for successful financial...
Learn MoreBen SlaterMarch 25, 2018 -
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Surveying the Cassandra-compatible database landscape
The popularity of Apache Cassandra and the applicability of it’s development model has seen it clearly emerge as the leading NoSQL technology for scale, performance and availability. One only needs to survey the ever increasing range of Cassandra-compatible options now available on the market to gain a further proof point to its popularity.
Learn MoreBen SlaterJanuary 17, 2018 -
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Apache Cassandra Materialized View and Instaclustr Support
Apache Cassandra Materialized View Materialized views are a feature, first released in Cassandra 3.0, which provide automatic maintenance of a shadow table (the materialized view) to a base table with a different partition key thus allowing efficient select for data with different keys. Many Cassandra users will be aware that the Apache Cassandra project recently...
Learn MoreBen SlaterNovember 13, 2017 -
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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 that our team follows when we are design a new data model for our customers: Phase 1: Understand the data Phase 2: Define...
Learn MoreBen SlaterOctober 05, 2017