Cassandra project chair: We’re taking on Oracle by Paul Krill.
From the post:
Apache Cassandra is an open source, NoSQL database accommodating large-scale workloads and attracting a lot of attention, having been deployed in such organizations as Netflix, eBay, and Twitter. It was developed at Facebook, which open-sourced it in 2008, and its database can be deployed across multiple data centers and in cloud environments.
Jonathan Ellis is the chair of the project at Apache, and he serves as chief technical officer at DataStax, which has built a business around Cassandra. InfoWorld Editor-at-Large Paul Krill spoke with Ellis at the company’s recent Cassandra Summit 2013 conference in San Francisco, where Ellis discussed efforts to make the database easier to use and how it has become a viable competitor to Oracle’s relational database technology.
InfoWorld: What is the biggest value-add for Cassandra?
Ellis: It’s driving the Web applications. We’re the ones who power Netflix, Spotify. Cassandra is actually powering the applications directly. It lets you scale to millions of operations per second and software-as-a-service, machine-generated data, Web applications. Those are all really hot spots for Cassandra.
Cassandra 2.0 is targeted for the end of July, 2013. Lightweight transactions and triggers are on the menu.