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 */
