Here’s a summary of recent discussions and developments in the Cassandra community. I encourage you to read through some of the threads if you're interested in contributing or just staying informed.
1. Discussion: ZSTD with dictionary compression in Cassandra [Link<https://lists.apache.org/thread/ky0dfct012930vg6jh8ys9fkrgccglb9>] A meeting was held to discuss this topic. Notes are in this doc<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pnirz6sSYNrStlN3k90yUo-MIj9pp6lxM_RdiyJbcPA>. Next steps are to draft a CEP proposal. 2. CEP-48: First-Class Materialized View Support [Link<https://lists.apache.org/thread/9kg3x0x4nmxztz20b3ff01fbp399khk9>] The vote for this CEP has passed. It will now move to being implemented. 3. Cassandra Meetup [Link<https://lists.apache.org/thread/mf8h2rcc0rc1v6bx737vg03q21jd8tyh>] Cassandra meetup was hosted by Uber. You can watch the videos of the talks here<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqcm6qE9lgKKqE0rUsy5dfSxrycnDS6Np>. Thanks to Uber for hosting. 4. CEP 52: Schema Annotations for Apache Cassandra [Link<https://lists.apache.org/thread/8rcp808jb4y2jy2sttkhx0fv71qxnddf>] This CEP outlines a plan to introduce Schema Annotations as a way to add better context to schema elements. It also proposes a set of new DDL statements to manage these annotations. There was a good discussion on this, and the CEP is now up for VOTE. 5. Community Over Code 2025 [Link<https://lists.apache.org/thread/l3hsm69t7xnpozgdfmv46zxbyfw82qc0>] Community Over Code will be happening in September. Feel free to register here<https://communityovercode.org/schedule/>. Dev List Link<https://lists.apache.org/[email protected]> Key stats: Found 213 emails by 55 authors, divided into 34 topics. Thanks Himanshu
