Shortfacts - November 2021


Fully managed service
Instaclustr has announced Apache Cassandra 4.0 as part of its Managed Platform. The managed services provider for open source technologies offers Cassandra as its primary NoSQL database solution alongside complementary solutions such as Apache Kafka, Open Distro for Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL and Redis. All data layer technologies that are part of Instaclustr's Managed Platform are available to users in their pure open source version.
Since solutions based on the open core principle come with high license costs and increase the risk of vendor lock-in, open source variants are more cost-friendly and flexible. The commitment to open source includes the entire Instaclustr tooling that is available for use with Cassandra, such as the LDAP authentication plug-in.
Companies can deploy Instaclustr Managed Cassandra 4.0 on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and the Google Cloud Platform.