Azure Cosmos DB for Apache Cassandra

Build fault tolerant applications with Cassandra API for Azure Cosmos DB

September 10, 2020 Sep 10, 2020 09/10/20

Abhishek Gupta

Step-by-step guidance about how to build fault tolerant applications using the Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API with a custom retry policy for 429 errors.

Now in preview: Use the native Cassandra shell on Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API!

May 15, 2020 May 15, 2020 05/15/20

Theo van Kraay

We have released support to run the native Cassandra shell (CQLSH) v5.0.1 on the Data Explorer for Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API accounts!

Announcing: Change Feed support for Azure Cosmos DB’s Cassandra API

December 2, 2019 Dec 2, 2019 12/2/19

Theo van Kraay

Azure Cosmos DB now has GA support for Change Feed for its Cassandra API. This now allows users of Azure Cosmos DB's Cassandra API to get the same great advantages of using Change Feed as enjoyed by users of SQL (Core) API and MongoDB API. What is Change Feed? Azure Cosmos DB's Change Feed is a persistent log of documents within a container...

Announcing Live Data Migration from Cassandra to Azure Cosmos DB

November 21, 2019 Nov 21, 2019 11/21/19

Theo van Kraay

We are excited to announce the ability to live migrate data from Apache Cassandra to Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API account. This allows you to migrate on-premises Cassandra workloads to Azure with minimum downtime.

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