2 years ago

Category: Software, Business, Database, Security, Data, Cloud

After nearly six years since the release of Apache Cassandra 3.0, the community behind the distributed NoSQL database has released Apache Cassandra 4.0, touting the project’s readiness for production. While being production-ready may be a given for other software hitting.0 milestones, the same could not be said for Cassandra — until now. The goal of Cassandra 4.0, since the beginning, has been very simple: to be able to run it in production from day one of the release,” said Vinay Chella, an engineering manager at Netflix and Apache Cassandra committer.

InstaClustr Chief Technology Officer Ben Bromhead wrote in an email that they had been running Cassandra 4.0 for the past several months already and that it was “the most tested, mature, and feature-rich release of Cassandra we’ve seen.”

Since we focused heavily on the quality and introduced all of those system tools and techniques as part of our release cycle, from now on, we would be able to release Apache Cassandra much faster, with the confidence that it can be run in production from day one of any major release,” said Chella.