DataStax is releasing the first preview of Stargate, a new open source API framework that could eventually turn Apache Cassandra into a multi-model database. It's an approach that has parallels with ...

During my decades as a database application developer, I never imagined in my wildest dreams that I would ever have access to a transactional, planet-scale, distributed database, much less that I ...

The cadre of volunteer developers behind the Cassandra distributed database have released the latest version of their open source software, able to hold up to 2 billion columns per row. An open source ...

Six Reasons Businesses Need to Pay Attention to Unstructured Data Whenever the conversation turns to Big Data and analytics, the topic is naturally assumed to be related to Hadoop. But it turns out ...

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 ...

A web API can connect cloud apps with databases with less friction than native drivers—but which one? To deliver the right balance of productivity and performance for each app, developers need the ...