The Apache Software Foundation recently announced Apache Cassandra Release 0.6, a NoSQL database. As a reformed database architect, I was intrigued by the appearance of yet another data management ...

The NoSQL databases featuring massive scalability developed for and used by the big social networks like Facebook and Twitter have created a whole new category. Amazingly (or not) most of the ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DataStax today announced that registration is now open for Accelerate 2020 in San Diego (May 11-13, 2020) and London (June 2-3, 2020). Accelerate attendees will ...

A few years back, as other NoSQL players such as MongoDB exploded on the scene, Apache Cassandra’s star was fading. The company that developed it, Facebook, had dumped it. Its community seemed to be ...

Apache Cassandra is a great NoSQL database, but no one's ever said it was easy to monitor or manage. Now, DataStax is bringing out a private beta of Vector, an AIOps service for Cassandra. Vector will ...

The Weather Channel, British Gas, games company Activision and William Hill operate in different sectors, with different customers and different business plans. But the firms have one thing in common: ...

The years-long Big Data skills shortage still persists despite numerous attempts to alleviate it, resulting in high demand and high salaries for developers with NoSQL skills, especially Apache ...

Matt Pfeil drove from Austin to San Antonio with only one thing in mind: stopping Jonathan Ellis from quitting his job at the cloud computing company Rackspace. Ellis had emailed his colleagues, ...