Apache Cassandra is a free, open source NoSQL database designed to manage very large data sets (think petabytes) across large clusters of commodity servers. Among many distinguishing features, ...

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 ...

“Jaspersoft is delighted to partner with DataStax to provide rich reporting and analytics for Cassandra,” said Karl Van den Bergh, Vice President of Product and Alliances at Jaspersoft. “DataStax ...

Amidst months of allegations from content creators in various niches, YouTube has finally admitted to using AI to enhance videos on its platform. Goldman Sachs says AI will boost productivity, cause 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 2008, Facebook gave big data users a gift. The social network released Cassandra, its NoSQL, big data distributed data store to open source. Today, with the release of Cassandra 2.0, the gift is ...

The underlying programming model for MapReduce has been revamped and has changed quite a bit. Chuck Lam, the author of Hadoop in Action Benefits that keep getting better include high levels of ...

A while ago, I had a chance to speak with some folks from DataStax —Matt Pfeil, CEO and co-founder, Ben Werther, VP of Products, and Michael Weir, VP of Marketing. It was an interesting discussion of ...