Supercharging Cassandra NoSQL For Machine Learning

DataStax, the driving force behind the ongoing development of and commercialization of the open source NoSQL Apache Cassandra database, had been in business for nine years in 2019 when it made a hard shift to the cloud. The company had already been working with organizations whose businesses already stretched into hybrid and multicloud environments, but its "cloud first" strategy was designed to make it easier for the company to grow and easier for customers to consume Cassandra. This cloud first approach is shared by many established and startup software companies alike. Back then, DataStax had just unveiled Constellation, a cloud data platform for developers to build newer application and operations teams to manage them, with the first offering on the platform being DataStax Apache Cassandra as a Service. A year later, the company announced its Astra database cloud service and in 2021 released a new version of Astra for serverless deployments. The transition to the cloud was important in making it easier for enterprises to use Cassandra, according to Ed Anuff, chief product officer at DataStax.