Astra DB makes it easy to develop and deploy applications using Cassandra.

Astra DB, a Cassandra in the Cloud service, makes development and management of Cassandra apps a snap!

In Part 1 of this article, we saw how to configure Apache Cassandra across multiple Datacenters (DCs) as well as the clients for Cassandra s

We frequently come across situations where we get a data source in JSON that we need to load into Snowflake. While Snowflake supports JSON data sources, there are some nuances of how the load process works that can take a while to understand and work around. The result is that we ended up spending more time than we initially planned for the tasks. Hopefully this post helps you get there faster! Recently, I was tasked with loading some JSON from the Open FDA API (https://open.

I really like the Time Travel feature in Snowflake. It is very handy and absurdly simple. If you have incorrectly updated one of your Snowflake tables and if you know that your table was in the correct state at 9 am on Sun, Oct 13, 2019, then you can simply run the query: SELECT * FROM TABLE_NAME AT(TIMESTAMP => 'Sun, 13 Oct 2019 09:00:00 -0800'::TIMESTAMP); where -0800 refers to your time zone in relation to UTC. However, this query will not work if you dropped or replaced t

Apache Cassandra is the always-on NoSQL database that is highly scalable and available. That sounds magical and is in fact true – IF you understand how to configure it correctly ! This article describes an issue we ran into when setting up a multi-DC configuration for Cassandra failover and how it was resolved. Cassandra Configuration Single Region, Dual AZ The diagram below shows the initial system configuration for a cluster deployed across two availability zones (AZ) in t