Technical — Cassandra Feature Releases
Tuesday 21st July 2020 by Ben Bromhead
The beta release of Apache Cassandra 4.0 is finally here, it’s been two years in the making. We’ve had a preview release available to customers since March for testing. A wide range of improvements have been made. Stability The explicit goal of this release has been to be “the most stable major release ever” to […]
Technical — Elasticsearch Technical
Tuesday 14th July 2020 by Paul Brebner
Then may I set the world on wheels, when she can spin for her living. (Two Gentlemen of Verona, III, 1) The weary sun hath made a golden set, And by the bright track of his fiery car, Gives signal, of a goodly day to-morrow. (Richard III, V, 3) Thy burning car never had scorch’d […]
Technical Technical — Elasticsearch
Monday 13th July 2020 by Paul Aubrey
Instaclustr is pleased to announce the availability of Managed Kibana, which can be deployed with an Instaclustr Managed Elasticsearch cluster. Kibana’s Features Kibana is an open source data exploration and visualization tool which allows you to analyze massive amounts of data residing in an Elasticsearch cluster. Kibana offers its powerful features through a browser-based interface […]
Technical Technical — Kafka
Thursday 9th July 2020 by Michael Carter
Instaclustr is pleased to announce a couple of key enhancements to our Managed Kafka Connect service. Following the recent release of the Kafka Connect service on the Instaclustr Managed Platform, we have been working on incremental enhancements, adding features for rapid integration of Kafka with other data systems, and supporting new platforms. Two enhancements among […]
Technical Technical — Elasticsearch
Wednesday 8th July 2020 by Paul Brebner
Marry, that’s a bountiful answer that fits all questions (All’s Well That Ends Well, II, 2) In Part 1 of this multi-part Elasticsearch Blog I revealed the most interesting things I learnt after taking Elasticsearch for my first “Test Drive”, including that Elasticsearch comes well equipped with some clever-sounding computational linguistics analysis tricks including Stemming, […]
Technical Technical — Elasticsearch
Thursday 25th June 2020 by Paul Brebner
“Search out thy wit for secret policies, and we will make thee famous through the world.” [Henry VI Part I, III, 3] Recently I decided to learn about a new addition to Instaclustr’s managed open source platform, the scalable full-text search technology Elasticsearch. Being in COVID-19 lockdown at the time, I found an online course […]
Technical Technical — Kafka
Wednesday 24th June 2020 by Paul Aubrey
Instaclustr is pleased to announce the availability, as part of Apache Kafka Connect Managed Service, of the open source Instaclustr Kafka Connect S3 connector. This connector is designed to enable Kafka users to easily store data to, and source data from, Amazon S3. The Kafka Connect S3 connector builds on the recent general availability release […]
Feature Releases Technical — Elasticsearch
Friday 19th June 2020 by Kaushik Mysur
Instaclustr is pleased to announce the availability of its Elasticsearch Managed Service on the GCP and Azure clouds. Following the recent release of the Elasticsearch service on the Instaclustr Managed Platform in March, we have been working on continuously enhancing the quality of the service, and increasing the breadth of its features and supported platforms. […]
Technical Technical — Kafka
Tuesday 16th June 2020 by Michael Carter
Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform with plenty to offer—from redundant storage of massive data volumes, to a message bus capable of throughput reaching millions of messages each second. These capabilities and more make Kafka a solution that’s tailor-made for processing streaming data from real-time applications. Despite its name’s suggestion of Kafkaesque complexity, Apache […]
Feature Releases Technical — Kafka
Tuesday 9th June 2020 by Kaushik Mysur
Instaclustr is pleased to announce the general availability of our Managed Kafka Connect offering on the Instaclustr Managed Platform. This service was tested with a select group of early access program customers late last year and since then has been put through its paces in the public preview. It has now passed our stringent testing […]
Technical Technical — Cassandra
Thursday 28th May 2020 by Lewis DiFelice
Apache Cassandra is an open source non-relational, or NoSQL, distributed database that enables continuous availability, tremendous scale, and data distribution across multiple data centers and cloud availability zones. Simply put, it provides a highly reliable data storage engine for applications requiring immense scale. Data modeling is a process used to analyze, organize, and understand the […]
Technical Technical — Cassandra
Wednesday 27th May 2020 by Anup Shirolkar
Introduction to Cassandra Monitoring Apache Cassandra is a NoSQL database designed to provide scalability, reliability, and availability with linear performance scaling. Cassandra database is designed as a distributed system, and aims to handle big data efficiently. Refer to what-is-apache-cassandra and cassandra-architecture for more information. Note that knowledge of Cassandra architecture and basic terminology is a […]