Release: Cassandra 0.6.0 aka The Best Evar
Accompanied by an ASF press release[1], Cassandra has announced its first new version after graduating as a top Apache project. The code name of this release, as per the ☞ announcement, is The Best Evar and it features some cool new additions[2]:
- row caching (nb mentioned in the Digg announcement of going Cassandra)
- Hadoop map/reduce support (nb covered in 6 Cassandra Myths Debunked)
- configuration improvements and JMX metrics
- changes to the Thrift API
Last, but not least, according to Jonathan Ellis ():
Apache Cassandra 0.6 is 30% faster across the board, building on our already-impressive speed
Enjoy Cassandra 0.6.0 even if you’ll need to restart your cluster to upgrade to the new version:
0.6 network traffic is not compatible with earlier versions. You will need to shut down all your nodes at once, upgrade, then restart.
References
- [1] ☞ The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Cassandra Release 0.6 (↩)
- [2] Release notes can be found ☞ here (↩)
