DataStax bakes oven-ready Retrieval Augment Generation
Generative Artificial Intelligence (gen-AI) has had a busy year, obviously. The technology wires have been liberally peppered with analysis detailing the spiralling popularisation of gen-AI engines and the Large Language Models (LLMs) that feed and serve them. There has been equal interest and disc... Read more
Cassandra 4.1 promises dev guardrails and pluggable storage
Cassandra focuses on stability with the latest update.
Apache Cassandra 4.1 will be made available next week. The update comes more than a year after the 4.0 release. Apache Cassandra 4.1 promises pluggable schema management and new guardrails to help ops professionals keep devs in line.
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Vulnerability in Apache Cassandra opens door for remote code execution
Security specialist JFrog warns of a bug in Apache Cassandra's Nashorn engine that allows remote code execution in affected systems.
Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed NoSQL database management system for handling large amounts of data on standard servers. The system, originally deve... Read more
Apache Cassandra 4.0 finally goes GA
With this new update, the most stable version of Cassandra is now here.
Almost 13 months after the beta version was announced, Apache Cassandra 4.0 is now considered ready for use. In addition, a production-ready version is available as a general release.
In the past, Apache would roll out up... Read more
DataStax brings Apache Cassandra to Kubernetes
DataStax announced at KubeCon 2021 that K8ssandra is now available on all Kubernetes environments. K8ssandra makes it possible to run the popular Apache Cassandra-NoSQL database on Kubernetes.
With the announcement, all different Kubernetes environments are supported, including Google Kubernetes... Read more
Apache Cassandra 4.0 introduces observability and audit logging
The beta of Apache Cassandra 4.0 is now generally available. The latest version of the NoSQL database promises new observability functionality, an audit logging feature and up to five times faster scaling.
According to the developers of Cassandra, the latest version is more stable than ever. Ver... Read more