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Achieving HIPAA Compliance Using Instaclustr on AWS
Building on our recently announced SOC 2 compliance, Instaclustr is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a white paper detailing how clients can achieve HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliance using Instaclustr services. HIPAA applies to health care providers engaged in certain electronic transactions, health plans, and health care clearinghouses as well...
Learn MoreInstaclustrJune 29, 2017 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Elasticsearch
- Technical
Elasticsearch™ on Cassandra Features Overview
Instaclustr recently announced coming availability of our Managed Service for Elassandra, which delivers Elasticsearch integrated with Apache Cassandra. This blog post drills down to explain the features and advantages of Elassandra – the best of Cassandra and ElasticSearch. Elassandra adds the power of ElasticSearch’s fast, powerful indexing and querying to Cassandra. By embedding Elasticsearch into Cassandra’s...
Learn MoreInstaclustrMay 25, 2017 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Testing Multiple Tables with Cassandra Stress
The cassandra-stress tool is a powerful tool for benchmarking Cassandra performance. It allows quite sophisticated specification of data and loads profiles to run against almost any table definition you can create in Cassandra. We’ve previously published detailed blog posts on the use of cassandra-stress: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. One significant limitation of...
Learn MoreBen SlaterMay 16, 2017 -
- Feature Releases
- Elasticsearch
- Technical
Managed Service for Elassandra provided by Instaclustr
Elassandra gives you the power of ElasticSearch to search your data directly from Cassandra – without developing custom integration or synchronisation code. Instaclustr, the best way to run Apache Cassandra in the cloud, is excited to announce the expansion of our platform from Apache Cassandra and Apache Spark to include Elassandra and Kibana as an...
Learn MoreInstaclustrMay 09, 2017 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Cassandra’s Place in the NoSQL World
A question that we commonly get asked is “how does Apache Cassandra compare to NoSQL technology X?”. While the easy answer is to say “It’s just better”, the truth of course isn’t that simple. NoSQL encompasses a much more diverse range of technologies than the relational database world with specific NoSQL products suited to particular...
Learn MoreInstaclustrMay 03, 2017 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Securing Apache Cassandra with Application Level Encryption
One topic that commonly comes up when discussing Apache Cassandra with large enterprise clients is whether Cassandra can match feature X (audit logging, encryption at rest, column level security, etc) that is supported by Oracle, SQL Server or some other common enterprise RDBMS technology. In many cases, the answer to this question is no –...
Learn MoreBen SlaterApril 28, 2017 -
- Feature Releases
- Technical
Instaclustr Free Trials Now Available on Google Compute Platform
Instaclustr is pleased to announce that, thanks to some help from our friends at Google, we’re now able to make free trials of Instaclustr’s Managed Cassandra, Spark and Zeppelin service available on GCP. From today on, any customers signing up for Instaclustr are automatically eligible for a 14 Day Free Trial of Instaclustr’s service running...
Learn MoreInstaclustrApril 10, 2017 -
- Apache Spark
- Technical
Debugging Jobs in the Apache Spark™ UI
Overview In this post, we’ll be running a basic Apache Spark job that selects data from a Cassandra database using a couple of different methods. We will then examine how to compare the performance of those methods using the Spark UI. Setup For this post, we will use a Zeppelin+Spark+Cassandra cluster. If you’d like to...
Learn MoreAlwyn DavisApril 08, 2017 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Maximising Availability with Apache Cassandra
Introduction A number of recent of events have had us thinking more than usual about maximising availability with Apache Cassandra. The first of these was the recent AWS S3 outage. While this outage did not have any effect on any of our managed clusters (other than few backup jobs being skipped) it obviously did affect...
Learn MoreBen SlaterMarch 06, 2017