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- Apache Spark
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Major Upgrade to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra and Apache Spark™ for Microsoft Azure
Highlights Instaclustr is pleased to announce general availability of a new release of our Managed Cassandra and Spark for Azure offering. This release includes several major upgrades: Premium Storage based instance types. Capability for large customers to run Instaclustr Managed Cassandra for Azure in your own Azure account. Azure Resource Manager provisioning including support for...
Learn MoreBen SlaterJune 21, 2016 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Apache Cassandra 3.x and Materialized Views
Overview Apache Cassandra 3.0 introduces a new feature called materialized views. Materialized views behave like they do in other database systems, you create a table that is populated by the results of a query. Cassandra also keeps the materialized view up to date based on the data you insert into the base table. Whilst the...
Learn MoreBen BromheadJune 07, 2016 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Feature Releases
- Technical
Instaclustr support for Apache Cassandra v3
Instaclustr is happy to announce beta availability of Cassandra 3.5 through our Managed Cassandra service. Cassandra 3.x represents a major step forward for the Cassandra project with new functionality and significant performance improvements. Instaclustr has been monitoring the increase production use and maturity of Cassandra 3 and we are now confident in offering it through...
Learn MoreBen SlaterJune 01, 2016 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Popular
- Technical
Managed Apache Cassandra versus DynamoDB
How is Cassandra compared to DynamoDB? A common question we hear from potential customers is “how is Cassandra compared to DynamoDB”? We’re big fans of AWS, in fact, most of our business runs on EC2, and certainly believe DynamoDB is a great solution for some use cases. Of course, we also believe that Cassandra is...
Learn MoreBen SlaterMay 27, 2016 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Instaclustr Monitoring to Manage Apache Cassandra® Performance
Overview Instaclustr has just released a substantial upgraded monitoring capability as part of our management console application. This monitoring capability has been designed to provide you easy access to the information you need to manage your use of Apache Cassandra when Instaclustr is taking care of the gory details for you. This blog post provides...
Learn MoreBen SlaterMay 26, 2016 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
TTLRemover: Tool for Removing Cassandra TTLs for Recovery and Testing Purposes
TTLs (time to live) are very useful features of Cassandra. They essentially provide an automatic deletion timer on any piece of data inserted into Cassandra. They can be specified either as part of an insert or update statement or set by default in a table’s schema and apply down to the column/value level in the...
Learn MoreInstaclustrMay 11, 2016 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Popular
- Technical
Understanding Apache Cassandra Migration – Migrating From a Relational Database to Apache Cassandra® Database
Cassandra Migration - Many applications running today are built using relational database technology such as PostgresSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, or Oracle Database. Relational technology was the mainstay database for application development for at least 20 years. However, the availability and scalability expectations of modern applications (along with the ability to realise substantial savings through the adoption of open source technology), is causing many people to re-examine this choice and making a move to Cassandra.
Learn MoreBen SlaterMay 11, 2016 -
- Technical
Post 500 Nodes: High Availability & Scalability with Riemann
This blog post is how Instaclustr built a highly-available monitoring solution for our fleet of Apache Cassandra and Apache Spark clusters; by using a combination of Riemann (an event stream processor) and RabbitMQ (a distributed, fault-tolerant message broker). Riemann is a fantastic stream-based event processing engine, written in Clojure (a JVM language), that serves as...
Learn MoreAdam ZegelinMay 03, 2016 -
- Technical
Zero Downtime Migration to Instaclustr
One question we often get from prospective customers is “Can you migrate my existing Cassandra cluster to Instaclustr without any downtime?”. The answer to that is, of course, “YES!”. We have done this on numerous occasions now. This blog gives a brief walk-through of the process we follow to achieve that migration. Overview This procedure...
Learn MoreInstaclustrApril 30, 2016