by Angela Guess
Paul Krill of InfoWorld reports, “With its popularity growing, Apache’s Cassandra database for high-volume, real-time data management will be fitted with technical and query language improvements in the fall. The open source NoSQL database, which reached the 1.0 release stage last October, is now in use at companies including Disney, eBay, and Netflix, according to Jonathan Ellis, project chair for the Apache Cassandra project and CTO at DataStax, which offers commercial products and services based on Cassandra. ‘Our best estimate is there are north of 1,000 Cassandra production deployments out there,’ Elllis said Wednesday at the Cassandra Summit 2012 conference in Santa Clara, Calif.”
Krill goes on, “Version 1.2 of Cassandra, eyed for an October release, is slated to offer concurrent schema change and virtual node capabilities, as well as JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks) deployment support, Ellis said. With concurrent schema changes, multiple clients can issue schema changes at the same time and they will be merged across a cluster safely. Virtual nodes will enable a full cluster to parallelize certain operations, providing improved speed in operations such as adding or replacing a node.”
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