I'll be blunt. The reason to use the latest 2.0 or soon 2.1 is because Apple has committed 20 patches that make Cassandra operationally useful. Apple is the QA lab for Cassandra.
Their conference talk was very exciting. I hope a video of that gets posted in October. Thanks, James Briggs. -- Cassandra/MySQL DBA. Available in San Jose area or remote. ________________________________ From: DuyHai Doan <doanduy...@gmail.com> To: user@cassandra.apache.org Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 7:07 AM Subject: Re: what's cool about cassandra 2.1.0? Hello Tim From this blog (http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/whats-new-in-cassandra-2-1) you should find the pointers to other big topics of 2.1 On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Tim Dunphy <bluethu...@gmail.com> wrote: Hey all, > > > I tried googling around to get an idea about what was new (and potentially > cool) in the newest release of cassandra - 2.1.0. > > >But all that I've been able to find so far is this kind of general statement >about the new features. > > >https://www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg38448.html > > >It doesn't seem to have a lot of detail! Particularly I'm curious about how >CQL has been enhanced beyond just an incomplete list of new data types. I'd >like to know what the performance improvements are, How the row cache has been >improved. Etc. You get the idea! So where can I find a more complete >description of how this update is of benefit? > > >Thanks! >Tim > >-- >GPG me!! > >gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B > >
