What is the Catalyst program? The Cassandra Catalyst® Program is a prestigious initiative that recognizes individuals who are dedicated to the growth and success of the Apache Cassandra® community. German Eichberger, Principal Engineering Manager for Azure Managed Instances for Apache Cassandra, is a Catalyst who has demonstrated a deep unders...

We're always busy adding new features, fixes, patches, and improvements to our Java-based client libraries for Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL. In this regular blog series, we share highlights of recent updates in the last period.   July - December 2023 updates     Spark 3.4 Support C...

  Get ready for Microsoft Ignite 2023, where we'll be unveiling exciting new features and enhancements for Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra. With the introduction of vector search, turnkey major version upgrades, turnkey replication for multi-region clusters, turnkey hybrid cluster setup for live migrations, and L-series VM S...

We are delighted to announce Cassandra 5.0 in public preview for Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, with vector search capabilities enabled!   Vector Database in Cassandra 5.0 In Cassandra 5.0, the integrated vector database is backed by storage-attached indexes that represent data as vectors in a multi-dimensional space. We use...

The Apache Cassandra Project Team recently announced that, after more than half a decade, versions 3.0.x and 3.11.x will reach End of Life at the end of 2023. To echo the project team announcement, we want to highlight the significant advantages of upgrading to Cassandra 4.0 or 4.1, and encourage users to make the transition. However, if you ...

We're always busy adding new features, fixes, patches, and improvements to our Java-based client libraries for Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL. In this regular blog series, we share highlights of recent updates in the last period.   January - June 2023 updates     Sprin...

Are you self-hosting open-source Apache Cassandra on-premises or in the cloud? What if you could have patching, deployment, scaling, platform security, cloud infrastructure, and live site support taken care of for you... for not much more than the cost of running virtual machines in the public cloud? Welcome to Azure Managed Instance for Apache ...

There are many factors to take into account when designing a multi-tenant application in Azure Cosmos DB. We've covered many of these aspects at a high level in our documentation on Multitenancy and Azure Cosmos DB. In this blog, we'll quickly dive into the mechanics of implementing a database per tenant or container per tenant performance isola...

We're always busy adding new features, fixes, patches, and improvements to our Java-based client libraries for Azure Cosmos DB API for NoSQL. In this regular blog series we'll share highlights of recent updates in the last period.   July - December 2022 updates   Spark 3.3 support Cloud-n...

The largest external customers of Azure Cosmos DB API for NoSQL, running some of the biggest and most mission critical workloads in Azure, are primarily Java users! In this blog we'll give you a quick run-down of all our supported Java-based client libraries, including our battle-tested core Java SDK, its key supported features, and where to go ...