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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

“An invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.” This quote has a prophetic ring to it, especially considering my co-author Eben Hewitt ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced the release ...