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Instaclustr for ClickHouse® 26.8 LTS is now generally available

ClickHouse 26.8 arrives as our newest long-term support (LTS) release, packing all upstream capabilities from the 26.8 line, with powerful new ingestion features and faster reads across data lake and analytical workloads.

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November 11, 2026

By Jaime Borucinski

Accelerate query performance with ClickHouse query cache

ClickHouse query cache stores SELECT results in memory to speed up repeated queries. Learn how to enable, size, and monitor it for dashboards and BI.

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November 11, 2026

By Vikas Kumar

Automated horizontal scaling for Apache Kafka® on NetApp Instaclustr

Scale Apache Kafka clusters up or down without a support ticket. NetApp Instaclustr automates health checks, broker changes and partition reassignment.

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November 10, 2026

By Varun Ghai

Hybrid RAG retrieval in Apache Cassandra: SAI filters plus vector search

Learn how Apache Cassandra 5 combines SAI filters with vector search to improve hybrid RAG retrieval using exact facts and semantic ranking in one CQL query.

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October 30, 2026

By Mariah McLaughlin

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Instaclustr for ClickHouse® 26.8 LTS is now generally available
November 11, 2026 | By Jaime Borucinski
ClickHouse 26.8 arrives as our newest long-term support (LTS) release, packing all upstream capabilities from the 26.8 line, with powerful new ingestion features and faster reads across data lake and analytical workloads.
November 11, 2026 | By Jaime Borucinski
Accelerate query performance with ClickHouse query cache
November 11, 2026 | By Vikas Kumar
ClickHouse query cache stores SELECT results in memory to speed up repeated queries. Learn how to enable, size, and monitor it for dashboards and BI.
November 11, 2026 | By Vikas Kumar
Automated horizontal scaling for Apache Kafka® on NetApp Instaclustr
November 10, 2026 | By Varun Ghai
Scale Apache Kafka clusters up or down without a support ticket. NetApp Instaclustr automates health checks, broker changes and partition reassignment.
November 10, 2026 | By Varun Ghai
Hybrid RAG retrieval in Apache Cassandra: SAI filters plus vector search
October 30, 2026 | By Mariah McLaughlin
Learn how Apache Cassandra 5 combines SAI filters with vector search to improve hybrid RAG retrieval using exact facts and semantic ranking in one CQL query.
October 30, 2026 | By Mariah McLaughlin
Kafka Tiered Storage on Azure: Instaclustr Public Preview
October 29, 2026 | By Varun Ghai
Explore Kafka tiered storage on Azure, now in Public Preview for new Instaclustr BYOC clusters, with historical data retained in Azure Blob Storage.
October 29, 2026 | By Varun Ghai
Scaling agent systems with Apache Kafka and A2A (Part 7): An experimental Kafka transport and the Semaphore Agent
October 29, 2026 | By Paul Brebner
Explore an experimental Apache Kafka transport for the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, with the Semaphore Agent demo, event replay, fan-out, and limitations.
October 29, 2026 | By Paul Brebner
Fix RAG retrieval in OpenSearch: Hybrid search and filters
October 28, 2026 | By Ramya Ravi
Four RAG retrieval failures and how to fix them on OpenSearch, using hybrid search, BM25, k-NN filtering, and GPU-accelerated vector index builds.
October 28, 2026 | By Ramya Ravi
Solving RAG hallucinations: Prompt structure and evaluation guide
October 27, 2026 | By Ramya Ravi
Learn why RAG systems give different answers for the same question, and how to fix it with better prompt structure, chunk delimiters, and LLM-as-judge evaluation on OpenSearch.
October 27, 2026 | By Ramya Ravi
Getting started: Query Parquet on Amazon FSx for NetApp® ONTAP with ClickHouse®
October 26, 2026 | By Walt Ribeiro
Learn how to connect ClickHouse to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP using ONTAP S3, then query Parquet files directly with ClickHouse’s S3 table function. No data copy required.
October 26, 2026 | By Walt Ribeiro
5 questions to ask before your next DataStax Enterprise renewal
October 19, 2026 | By Mo Ansari
Facing a DataStax Enterprise renewal? Five questions to answer first, from IBM’s roadmap and HCD to DSE features, flexibility, and what leaving costs.
October 19, 2026 | By Mo Ansari

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