Great! Congratulations!
-- Dikang Gu 0086 - 18611140205 On Friday, June 3, 2011 at 10:06 AM, aaron morton wrote: > Big thanks to all the contributors and committers :) > > A > > ----------------- > Aaron Morton > Freelance Cassandra Developer > @aaronmorton > http://www.thelastpickle.com > > > > > > On 3 Jun 2011, at 11:48, Joseph Stein wrote: > > Awesome! > > > > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Eric Evans <eev...@rackspace.com> wrote: > > > > > > I am very pleased to announce the official release of Cassandra 0.8.0. > > > > > > If you haven't been paying attention to this release, this is your last > > > chance, because by this time tomorrow all your friends are going to be > > > raving, and you don't want to look silly. > > > > > > So why am I resorting to hyperbole? Well, for one because this is the > > > release that debuts the Cassandra Query Language (CQL). In one fell > > > swoop Cassandra has become more than NoSQL, it's MoSQL. > > > > > > Cassandra also has distributed counters now. With counters, you can > > > count stuff, and counting stuff rocks. > > > > > > A kickass use-case for Cassandra is spanning data-centers for > > > fault-tolerance and locality, but doing so has always meant sending data > > > in the clear, or tunneling over a VPN. New for 0.8.0, encryption of > > > intranode traffic. > > > > > > If you're not motivated to go upgrade your clusters right now, you're > > > either not easily impressed, or you're very lazy. If it's the latter, > > > would it help knowing that rolling upgrades between releases is now > > > supported? Yeah. You can upgrade your 0.7 cluster to 0.8 without > > > shutting it down. > > > > > > You see what I mean? Then go read the release notes[1] to learn about > > > the full range of awesomeness, then grab a copy[2] and become a > > > (fashionably )early adopter. > > > > > > Drivers for CQL are available in Python[3], Java[3], and Node.js[4]. > > > > > > As usual, a Debian package is available from the project's APT > > > repository[5]. > > > > > > Enjoy! > > > > > > > > > [1]: http://goo.gl/CrJqJ (NEWS.txt) > > > [2]: http://cassandra.debian.org/download > > > [3]: http://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/drivers > > > [4]: https://github.com/racker/node-cassandra-client > > > [5]: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/DebianPackaging > > > > > > -- > > > Eric Evans > > > eev...@rackspace.com > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > /* > > Joe Stein > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/charmalloc > > Twitter: @allthingshadoop > > */ > > >
