The list of releases I wanted to post about has been growing fast these last couple of weeks, so instead of waiting leaving it to Here it is (in no particular order¹):

1. (Jan.2nd) Cassandra 1.2 — announcement on DataStax’s blog. I’m currently learning and working on a post looking at what’s new in Cassandra 1.2.
2. (Jan.10th) Apache Pig 0.10.1 — Hortonworks wrote about it
3. (Jan.10th) DataStax Community Edition 1.2 and OpsCenter 2.1.3 — DataStax announcement
4. (Jan.10th) CouchDB 1.0.4, 1.1.2, and 1.2.1 — releases fixing some security vulnerabilities

5. (Jan.11th) MongoDB 2.3.2 unstable — announcement. This dev release includes support for full text indexing. For more details you can check:

   • MongoDB Full Text Search Explained and MongoDB Text Search Tutorial
   • Full text search in MongoDB: details about supported languages and queries
   • Indexing a Markdown blog using MongoDB full text indexing
   • Short demo of MongoDB text search and hashed shard keys
     
   • (Jan.12th) Apache HBase 0.94.4 — announcement and release notes
   • (Jan.14th) Apache Hive 0.10.0: Hortonworks’s post about it
   • (Jan.15th) Hortonworks Data Platform 1.2 featuring Apache Amabari — official PR announcement
   • (Jan.16th) Redis 2.6.9 — release notes
   • (Jan.16th) HyperDex 1.0RC1 — no docs
   • (Jan.16th) Klout’s Brickhouse — announcement:

   […] an open source project extending Hadoop and Hive with a collection of useful user-defined-functions. Its aim is to make the Hive Big Data developer more productive, and to enable scalable and robust dataflows.

Original title and link: 11 Interesting Releases From the First Weeks of January (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)