# Announcement: Instaclustr Now Supports Apache Cassandra 2.1, DSE 4.7 [Blog](/blog/)>[Technology](/blog/category/technical/)>Announcement: Instaclustr Now Supports Apache Cassandra 2.1, DSE 4.7 Announcement: Instaclustr Now Supports Apache Cassandra 2.1, DSE 4.7 ==================================================================== July 06, 2015 | By [ Ben Slater](https://www.instaclustr.com/blog/author/bens/) [ ](https://x.com/intent/tweet?text=Announcement:%20Instaclustr%20Now%20Supports%20Apache%20Cassandra%202.1,%20DSE%204.7&url=https://www.instaclustr.com/blog/instaclustr-supports-cassandra-2-1-dse-4-7/) [ ](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://www.instaclustr.com/blog/instaclustr-supports-cassandra-2-1-dse-4-7/&title=&summary=Announcement:%20Instaclustr%20Now%20Supports%20Apache%20Cassandra%202.1,%20DSE%204.7&source=) Instaclustr now supports the latest production-ready versions of Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise. The Apache Cassandra project recently released Cassandra 2.16 and announced that the 2.1 series was now considered ready for production use. In addition, DataStax released their first Cassandra 2.1-based release Data Stax Enterprise v4.7. Instaclustr has moved quickly to make these, and other recent releases, available to our clients and in the past week released the following versions to general availability in our production environment: - Apache Cassandra 2.1.7 - DataStax Enterprise 4.7.0 - Apache Cassandra 2.0.16 - DataStax Enterprise 4.6.7 This ensures our clients have access to the latest stability and performance improvements as well as the functionality advances in Cassandra 2.1. They key enhancements available with Cassandra 2.1 that will be visible to our customers include: - Performance improvements - User defined (composite) types - Creating indexes on collection values - An improved implementation of counters A more complete overview of the new features in 2.1 can be found here: . Adding support for Cassandra 2.1 also allows us to meet the demand for managed Cassandra to run the Kong API management framework which is gaining a lot of interest in the API community. If you are interested in running Kong with Instaclustr then check out our tutorial () for details on how to set it up. ### About the author **[Ben Slater](https://www.instaclustr.com/blog/author/bens/)** | Chief Product Officer Chief Product Officer, charged with steering Instaclustr’s development roadmap and overseeing the product engineering, production support, open source, and consulting teams. [ Add Instaclustr as a preferred source on Google ](https://google.com/preferences/source?q=instaclustr.com) ![mail icon]()#### Get the latest articles for open sourceIn your inbox Sign up now ### Related content [ Zero Downtime Migration to Instaclustr Yes, we can migrate existing Cassandra clusters to Instaclustr without any downtime. Here's what to expect from the process... ](https://www.instaclustr.com/blog/zero-downtime-migration-to-instaclustr/) [ Workflow Comparison: Uber Cadence vs Netflix Conductor When choosing what’s right for your company’s opensource workflow needs it is important to know the difference and similarities ... ](https://www.instaclustr.com/blog/workflow-comparison-uber-cadence-vs-netflix-conductor/) [ Will Your Cassandra Database Project Succeed?: The New Stack Open source Apache Cassandra® continues to stand out as an enterprise-proven solution for organizations seeking high availability... ](https://www.instaclustr.com/blog/will-your-cassandra-database-project-succeed-the-new-stack/) ×Sign upto ourNewsletter -----------------------