Join the Apollo Beta for FREE! Help the Databass!

Hello to all the data curious, database lovers, and sciency datamungers! I have a small favor to ask of you all. At DataStax we just opened up our Apollo service i.e. “Apache Cassandra as a Service” i.e. DBaaS offering and I’m looking for people that want to test drive the database! Now, you don’t have... Continue reading →

Jonathan Ellis talks about Five Lessons in Distributed Databases

Notes on the talk… If it’s not SQL it’s not a database. Watch, you’ll get to hear why… ha! Then Jonathan covers the recent history (sort of recent, the last ~20ish years) of the industry and how we’ve gotten to this point in database technology. It takes 5+ years to build a database. Also the... Continue reading →

Distributed Systems: Cassandra, DataStax, a Short SITREP

SITREP = Situation Report. It’s military speak. 💂🏻‍♂️ Apache Cassandra is one of the most popular databases in use today. It has many characteristics and distinctive architectural details. In this post I’ll provide a description and some details for a number of these features and characteristics, divided as such. Then, after that (i.e. toward the... Continue reading →