Transaction-Analytics and Search with Datastax Enterprise 4.8

Transaction-Analytics and Search with Datastax Enterprise 4.8 : DataStax Enterprise (DSE) 4.8, the database platform purpose-built for the performance and availability demands of Internet of Things (IoT), Web and mobile applications provides a number of enhancements aimed at meeting the requirements of production Web, mobile, and IoT applications, that need to consume, analyze, and search data at record speeds.

Upgrades and enhancements in DSE 4.8 include, Production certification for Spark 1.4, providing customers with trusted and enhanced analytics for production systems, Support for the Spark job server, which helps manage and monitor Spark activities, upgrades to DSE Search’s "Live Indexing” feature that makes incoming data available for faster search, User Defined Type (UDT) support in DSE Search, which reduces the coding effort for developers and allows for easy storage and search for various data formats (e.g. JSON) that are stored in Cassandra, Packaging and deployment ease-of-use improvements via support for Docker.

“In order for us to deliver the most advanced solutions that transform the way enterprises think about and deliver production-ready reactive software solutions, it’s imperative that we use the latest and most cutting-edge database technology, not the traditional relational database technology from the past,” said Guy Remond, Cake Solutions CEO. “DataStax Enterprise 4.8 and Apache Cassandra are recognized as one of the best of breed database technologies for tackling today’s most challenging big data problems in enterprises.”