NoSQL Cassandra developer community sets sights on JDK 11 as sped-up 4.0 beta finally hits the streets

'Most stable' release yet boosts scaling speed, data observability

The beta version of Apache Cassandra 4.0, the most significant new release of column-oriented NoSQL database in years according to those involved, hit the downloads centre this week, with the promise of a 5x scaling speed improvement, new observability features and less "unnecessary garbage"....