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Exploring the key features of Cassandra® 5.0

Apache Cassandra has become one of the most broadly adopted distributed databases for large-scale, highly available applications ...

OpenSearch® 3.4 release: Build faster, smarter RAG applications

The OpenSearch 3.4 release is here, bringing groundbreaking improvements to AI and RAG pipelines. From performance boosts to new ...

Instaclustr product update: December 2025

Instaclustr product update: December 2025 Here’s a roundup of the latest features and updates that we’ve recently released. If you...

From keywords to concepts: How OpenSearch® AI search outperforms traditional search

Introduction Modern search applications require more than just matching keywords. They demand understanding user intent and ...

Freezing streaming data into Apache Iceberg™—Part 2: Using Iceberg Topics

In this 2-part blog series, we are exploring the use case of “freezing” streaming Apache Kafka data into (Apache) Iceberg! In ...

Freezing streaming data into Apache Iceberg™—Part 1: Using Apache Kafka®Connect Iceberg ...

Introduction Ever since the first distributed system—i.e. 2 or more computers networked together (in 1969)—there has been the ...

NetApp introduces Apache Kafka® Tiered Storage support on GCP in public preview

NetApp announces that Instaclustr for Apache Kafka now offers Tiered Storage for new clusters created on Google Cloud Platform (...

Stay ahead with Apache Cassandra®: 2025 CEP highlights

Apache Cassandra® committers are working hard, building new features to help you more seamlessly ease operational challenges of a ...

How to get OpenTelemetry traces from Apache Kafka clients into OpenSearch using Data ...

End-to-end distributed tracing of complex applications is a critical pillar of modern distributed systems observability ...