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DataStax is releasing the first preview of Stargate, a new open source API framework that could eventually turn Apache Cassandra into a multi-model database. It's an approach that has parallels with ...

In my last post, “Hello Cassandra,” I looked at downloading the Cassandra NoSQL database and using cqlsh to connect to a Cassandra database. In this post, I look at the basics of connecting to a ...

For many years now, Cassandra has been renowned for its ability to handle massive scaling and global availability. Based on Amazon’s Dynamo, Cassandra implements a masterless architecture which allows ...

In this brave new world of big data, a database technology called “Bigtable” would seem to be worth considering — particularly if that technology is the creation of engineers at Google, a company that ...