Apache Zeppelin Preview Release

Managed Apache Spark™ 1.6 Full Release

Our managed Apache Spark offering on Apache Cassandra now moves into full release. With the release of Apache Spark 1.6 using the Spark Cassandra Connector v 1.6.0-M1, our Spark+Cassandra offering moves out of Preview status and into full release. With this release, based on learnings from supporting customers through the preview period, we have applied...

Apache Cassandra Costs Running in the Cloud

Instaclustr managed Cassandra services include the underlying cloud provider charges in our standard monthly fee. We’re often asked by customers and potential for information about what these charges look like. This information is also useful to people planning their own cloud-based Cassandra implementation. So, whichever category you’re in, read on for more information. For simplicity, in...

3 Key Factors for Load Testing Apache Cassandra Applications

Here at Instaclustr we have spent a lot of time running load tests on Apache Cassandra and dealing with the many different types of performance issues that crop up when running Cassandra in production. Through these exercises, we’ve learnt a lot (often by trial and error) about how to usefully load test Cassandra applications. Although many...

Instaclustr: What’s New Feb 2016

After a little bit of a slow down over the Christmas period and summer holidays here in Australia, the Instaclustr development team was back in full swing in February. Some of the key changes that we released in the month were: Improvements in column family information in our monitoring page: we now include disk space...

Interning as a software developer with Instaclustr

My name is Danyang Li, a second-year master's degree student, majoring in Computing. In October 2015, I started to look for internship programs that would give me a platform to leverage my knowledge and skills gained in the classroom, while enabling me to work in a new and unfamiliar environment for a more holistic learning experience.

Running CoreOS official AMIs with internal storage on AWS

At Instaclustr, we host some of our customers' nodes on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. Depending on customer's system requirements, we may deploy multiple different instances on AWS: EBS-backed nodes and instance-store nodes.

Connecting to a Cassandra cluster using TLS/SSL

Overview Making connections to a Cassandra cluster that uses SSL can be a little tricker than usual, however properly securing your client connections with SSL is important, especially if you are connecting to your cluster via the Internet or an untrusted network. Pre-requisites Before we get started you’ll first need to install the Java Cryptography Extensions....

Big Data Challenge

The Big Data Challenge Avoiding the challenges and pitfalls of Apache Cassandra implementation Executive summary Big Data is a different problem that requires a different data storage and management solution. It’s data that is too big, moves too fast, and doesn’t fit standard relational data structure. Apache Cassandra has emerged as a winning solution for...