Apache Cassandra® 4.0
Cassandra 4.0 introduced significant improvements in performance, stability, and operational stability. While Apache Cassandra 5 is now the latest release, Cassandra 4 remains a widely adopted and stable upgrade path for customers migrating from Cassandra 3.
What is Cassandra 4.0?
Apache Cassandra 4.0 is the first major release in the Cassandra community in over six years. Cassandra 4.0 significantly enhances the NoSQL database’s performance.
Meet Instaclustr forCassandra 4.0
Aside from a range of enterprise-grade feature additions, Cassandra 4.0 comes with significant improvements to stability and performance over previous releases.
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Performance +
Streaming between nodes is five times faster, and throughput on reads and writes is 25% quicker than previous versions.
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Stability +
Cassandra 4.0 is exhaustively tested to ensure stability in production environments.
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Full query logging capability +
There are a number of exciting use cases for full query logs in Cassandra. Full query logs allow you to log, replay, and compare CQL requests live without affecting the performance of your production environment.
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Virtual tables +
Query system metrics directly using CQL for easier monitoring and troubleshooting.
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Compression algorithms +
More efficient compression algorithms than previous versions.
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Changes to incremental repair +
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Netty Transport +
This allows Cassandra to move away from having an N threads per peer model, to a single thread pool for all connections. This dramatically reduces performance issues related to thread signalling, coordination and context switching.
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Benefits of Cassandra 4.0
Database administrators
With improved compaction to improve stability and full query logging to assist with debugging, operators will have a more enhanced overall experience with Cassandra 4.0.
Engineers
Get improved performance for the data infrastructure supporting your applications with 25% faster reads and writes and a 5x improvement in streaming between nodes.
Enterprises
Reduce the overall costs of your data infrastructure with significant improvements to stability and performance in Cassandra. More easily achieve SOX and PCI compliance requirements with comprehensive audit logging in Cassandra 4.0.