Re: apache cassandra development process and future

2018-07-24 Thread Jeremy Hanna
For full disclosure, I've been in the Apache Cassandra community since 2010 and at DataStax since 2012. So DataStax moved on to focus on things for their customers, effectively putting most development effort into DataStax Enterprise. However, there have been a lot of fixes and improvements

Re: apache cassandra development process and future

2018-07-19 Thread Jeff Jirsa
It will (did) slow, but it didn’t (won’t) stop. There’s some really interesting work in the queue, like https://issues.apache.org/jira/plugins/servlet/mobile#issue/CASSANDRA-14404 , that should make a lot of users very happy. -- Jeff Jirsa > On Jul 19, 2018, at 6:59 AM, Vitaliy Semochkin

Re: apache cassandra development process and future

2018-07-19 Thread Vitaliy Semochkin
Jeff and Rahul thank you very much for clarification. My main concern was the fact that since DataStax left Cassandra project it is unclear if the development speed will significantly slow down, even now it seems documentation site seems abandoned. Though players like Netflix, Apple and Microsoft

Re: apache cassandra development process and future

2018-07-18 Thread Rahul Singh
YgaByte!!! <— another Cassandra “compliant" DB - not sure if they forked C* or wrote Cassandra in go. ;) https://github.com/YugaByte/yugabyte-db Datastax is Cassandra compliant — and can use the same sstables at least until 6.0 (which uses a patched version of  “4.0” which is 2-5x faster) —

Re: apache cassandra development process and future

2018-07-18 Thread Jeff Jirsa
There are 4+ implementations of CQL in addition to Apache Cassandra - the ones I can think of off the top of my head include DSE, Yugabyte, CosmosDB, and Scylla. You'll want to define "popular". If by popular you mean "which implementation of CQL has the most installed servers", nobody knows for

Re: apache cassandra development process and future

2018-07-18 Thread Alain RODRIGUEZ
Hello, It's a complex topic that has already been extensively discussed (at least for the part about Datastax). I am sharing my personal understanding, from what I read in the mailing list mostly: Recently Cassandra eco system became very fragmented > I would not put Scylladb in the same 'eco