Hey Cassandra users! If you're running Cassandra in production, there are some major changes coming that will significantly change how you operate and develop with it. I’ll be hosting Cassandra Forward 2025 on March 11 and 12 to walk through these changes from the people building them. I ran one of these as a preview to Cassandra 5, so consider this your preview for Cassandra 5.1/6.
Here are all the topics we’ll cover: - Accord & ACID(CEP-15): Real multi-key transactions in Cassandra. Learn about migration paths from existing workloads - CEP-21: Strongly Consistent Cluster Management (Transactional Cluster Metadata) - Say goodbye to gossip-related issues, schema disagreements, and complicated scaling operations - CEP-42: The Constraints Framework - Define data validation rules directly in your schema instead of application code - Storage Attached Indexes (SAI) Updates: New syntax and capabilities for search and analytics - Document API for Cassandra: Not a CEP yet, but it is coming together. Aaron Morton will share his open source library for building document interfaces the Cassandra way - CEP-38: CQL Management API - Moving from JMX to CQL for simpler, more secure cluster operations - CEP-40 & CEP-44: Cassandra Sidecar - Direct data transfer for faster migrations and native Kafka integration for CDC Each talk follows a straightforward format: what the feature is, why it matters to your operations, and when you can expect to use it. This isn't just incremental stuff - these changes address long-standing pain points and open up entirely new use cases. If you're happily using Cassandra today, you'll want to know how these features will make your life easier. March 11 9am PT | 12pm ET. Register here: https://www.datastax.com/events/cassandra-forward-march-2025 March 12 10am IST | 3:30pm AEDT. Register here: https://www.datastax.com/events/cassandra-forward-march-2025-apac See you there, Patrick
