CEP-53 in implementation: Rolling Restarts for #ApacheCassandra via Sidecar! Monitor, pause, resume, and abort rolling restarts through a REST API. No more babysitting restarts by hand. cwiki.apache.org/confluence/d... #ApacheCassandra #Ops #NoSQL #OpenSource #DistributedIsResilient

CEP-55 is landing in #ApacheCassandra 6.0: Auto-generated role names! No more manually specifying a unique role name on every CREATE ROLE — let Cassandra generate one for you. Small UX improvement, real operational win. 🔐 cwiki.apache.org/confluence/d... #NoSQL #OpenSource #ASF

CEP-52 is available in 6.0: Schema Annotations in CQL for #ApacheCassandra! Add inline comments and security labels to keyspaces, tables, columns, and UDTs — queryable via system views. Better documentation and classification, baked into the schema. ✍️ cwiki.apache.org/confluence/d...

CEP-43 is landing in #ApacheCassandra 6.0: CREATE TABLE LIKE! Copy an existing table's schema — columns, types, and annotations — a starting point for a new template tables. No more manual copy-paste of long CREATE TABLE statements. 🎉 cwiki.apache.org/confluence/d...

CEP-58: Satellite Datacenters has passed its vote! 🛰️ Multi-region HA using 2 full DCs + small satellite nodes — lower cost than a traditional 3-DC setup, with transactionally consistent failover and zero data loss. cwiki.apache.org/confluence/d...

CEP-48 has passed vote: First-Class Materialized View support Consistency, reliability & backfill enhancements — a big step toward production-ready MVs. Follow: cwiki.apache.org/confluence/p... #ApacheCassandra #NoSQL #OpenSource #ASF

CEP-32: OpenTelemetry Tracing is coming to #ApacheCassandra! 🔍 Vote passed. Native OTel integration — correlate Cassandra query spans with your existing observability stack. cwiki.apache.org/confluence/d... #OpenTelemetry #NoSQL #Observability #OpenSource

[RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 6.0-alpha1 is out ‼️ This is a quarterly alpha release, for testing and development purposes. Download it at: downloads.apache.org/cassandra/6.... News: github.com/apache/cassa... Changelogs: github.com/apache/cassa...

📅 Cassandra has formalized its release cadence: one major release per year (beginning each April), with quarterly trunk alphas in between. lists.apache.org/thread/y3fyv... Predictable upgrades as the project heads toward 6.0.

[RELEASE] Apache Cassandra Releases 5.0.7 , 4.1.11 and 4.0.20 are out ‼️ Downloads: cassandra.apache.org/_/download.h... Changelogs:  • github.com/apache/cassa...  • github.com/apache/cassa...  • github.com/apache/cassa...

[RELEASE] Apache Cassandra Analytics 0.3.0 is out! Downloads: downloads.apache.org/cassandra/ca... Changelog: github.com/apache/cassa... #ApacheCassandra #NoSQL #OpenSource

[RELEASE] Apache Cassandra Sidecar 0.3.0 is out! Downloads: downloads.apache.org/cassandra/ca... Changelog: github.com/apache/cassa... #ApacheCassandra #NoSQL #OpenSource

CEP-59: Graceful Disconnect for #ApacheCassandra! When a node shuts down, it now signals connected drivers via an in-band GRACEFUL_DISCONNECT event. Drivers stop new queries, let in-flight requests finish, then reconnect — no more client-side timeouts on restarts 🔄 cwiki.apache.org/confluence/p...

The #ApacheCassandra PMC is delighted to welcome Francisco Guerrero ( @francisco-guerrero.bsky.social ) as our newest PMC member! 🎉 Francisco has been a key contributor to the project — especially driving the Sidecar sub-project forward. Congratulations! 🎊 #ASF #OpenSource #NoSQL

Apache Software Foundation announced the opening of Travel Assistance Applications for next Community Over Code in Glasgow next October. tac.apache.org If you are planning to be around, please come and say hi on the @cassandra.apache.org track!

Cassandra Track at Community over Code ‼️ Submit your talks 🙏 This is the main event for our community to connect this year 🪩 news.apache.org/foundation/e...

@awscloud.bsky.social, thanks for the love ❤️ Supporting (vendor-neutral) open source projects is everything to us. aws.amazon.com/opensource/

The NodeJS Driver is officially in the project, thanks to the donation from @datastax.dev & IBM Now found at github.com/apache/cassa... Reach out, get involved in next steps post-donation: moving docs & first release. These are fun and easy ways to get involved & become part of our dev community

@IBM, thanks for the love ❤️ Supporting (vendor-neutral) open source projects is everything to us. www.ibm.com/opensource/

Apple, thanks for the love ❤️ Supporting (vendor-neutral) open source projects is everything to us. opensource.apple.com/projects/cas...

The NEXT New York Area Cassandra User Group will be held at the NetApp NYC office, 18th February. Help spread the word! luma.com/q6kuetpe

The NEXT NY Area Cassandra User Group will be held at the NetApp NYC office, 18th February. please help spread the word! luma.com/q6kuetpe

NetApp Instacluster, thanks for the love ❤️ Supporting (vendor-neutral) open source projects is everything to us. www.instaclustr.com/our-commitme...

@bloomberg.com, thanks for the love ❤️ Supporting (vendor-neutral) open source projects is everything to us. www.bloomberg.com/company/valu...

Not Only did the NoSQL moniker come from a Apache Cassandra dev, Apache Cassandra remains the leading popular open source NoSQL database today. #support_open_source_technologies

From db-engines top 50 databases, the only vendor-neutral open sourced NoSQL databases are Apache Cassandra and Apache HBase. #choose_sustainable_open_source_technologies

Happy Friday!! Today is a good day. I am thrilled to announce that latest PR for CDC support in Sidecar (CEP-44) was just merged into C* Sidecar. More testing coverage, bug filing and fixing lies ahead of us. So proud to be a member of this community @cassandra.apache.org!

From db-engines top 100 databases, the only application databases that are vendor-neutral open sourced are: Apache Cassandra, Postgres, H2, Apache CouchDB, and HSQLDB. #choose_sustainable_open_source_technologies

Sharing my 2025 Apache Cassandra Year in Review and Gratitudes – lists.apache.org/thread/ztzzr...

The Python Driver is officially part of the project, thanks to the donation from DataStax & IBM Now found at github.com/apache/cassa... Reach out to get involved in next steps post-donation: new docs location & first release; great ways to get involved & become part of our dev community

The C/C++ Driver is officially part of the project thanks to the donation from DataStax & IBM Now found at github.com/apache/cassa... Reach out if you'd like to be involved in next steps post-donation: new docs location & first release; great ways to get involved & become part of our dev community

Jon Haddad's fouth post in his Cassandra series on maximising cost efficiency rustyrazorblade.com/post/2025/re...

Jon Haddad's third post in his Cassandra series on maximising cost efficiency rustyrazorblade.com/post/2025/07...

Jon Haddad's second post in his Cassandra series on maximising cost efficiency rustyrazorblade.com/post/2025/04...

Jon Haddad's first post in his Cassandra series on maximising cost efficiency rustyrazorblade.com/post/2025/03...

Cassandra as a Cloud Native System of Record: Unlocking the Big Data Ecosystem with Modular APIs Is your Apache Cassandra database an isolated island of data, walled off from the rest of your big data ecosystem? 🏝️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU52...

Handling Large Blobs in Apache Cassandra CDC with Kafka and Object Storage Integration Struggling with massive blobs clogging up your Cassandra Change Data Capture (CDC) pipeline? 😫 You're not alone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL9m...

Efficient export with Cassandra Analytics by Serban Teodorescu Ever faced the daunting task of exporting massive amounts of data from a live production Cassandra cluster without causing a meltdown? 🤔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XcB...

Interested in seeing more ! The video recordings for last week's Seattle meetup are now available www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

An incredible increase in numbers, from last week's meet-up in Seattle cassandraossmeetup.splashthat.com It's a repeating story of companies doubling down their consolidation efforts on Apache Cassandra.

Life is better Since we choose right keys for Cassandra Home by Gokul Prabagaren How do you design a system that serves real-time data to millions of customers while ensuring every single transaction is perfectly accurate and auditable? 🤔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_1Y...

Join us at the next Planet Cassandra online meetup Wed, Nov 19 for a presentation of cqlai and the AxonOps Workbench showing how it can help you write, test, and manage CQL more efficiently. www.meetup.com/cassandra-gl...

Our @jeffjirsa.net has built a working prototype of a Postgres SQL Layer on top Apache Cassandra. It is an early PoC, but it opens up a whole new chapter for us: github.com/geico/cassan... Jump into the dev conversation here: lists.apache.org/thread/3ronb...