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- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Deep Diving into cassandra-stress (Part 1)
Overview: Cassandra Stress This is the first in a series of blog posts I’m planning to create as part of my prep for my Cassandra summit talk ‘Load Testing Cassandra Applications’. Cassandra-stress is a great utility for stress testing Cassandra. However, available documentation is a little sparse and it is not always entirely clear what...
Learn MoreBen SlaterAugust 19, 2016 -
- Technical
Instaclustr Offerings
Overview Over the last 2 years our range of services and capabilities have grown and we’ve also refined the definition of those services to better meet the demand that we have seen from our customers. Given that change, we thought it would be useful to set out a summary of our offerings, their benefits and what situations...
Learn MoreBen SlaterAugust 16, 2016 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Cassandra User Defined Functions and Aggregates
Overview User Defined Functions (UDF) and Aggregates (UDA) have seen a number of improvements in Cassandra version 3.x. In particular the sand boxing of UDF code makes this functionality safer in a production environment and has led us to include Java UDF support in our Cassandra 3.x managed service offering. UDF/UDAs allow the execution of...
Learn MoreRobert MarshallAugust 03, 2016 -
- Team
Instaclustr Insights: Meet Ben Slater
Name Ben Slater Role Chief Product Officer Location Canberra, Australia How did you get started working in IT? I’ve done quite a few jobs in my IT careers, but prior to Instaclustr I worked for Accenture for 10 years with a speciality in BI/Analytics and also some time setting up and running an enterprise managed...
Learn MoreInstaclustrAugust 01, 2016 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Apache Cassandra Deployed on Private and Public Networks
Overview Since we started our managed Cassandra service, we have had a number of customers wanting to have some of their applications communicate with Cassandra using a private network, while other applications communicate using the public network. While this isn’t an uncommon request, the solution and its limitations are not well documented. In this blog post...
Learn MoreAdam ZegelinJuly 18, 2016 -
- 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