What’s new in Apache Cassandra 4.1
Apache Cassandra 4.1 was a massive effort by the Cassandra community to build on what was released in 4.0, and it is the first of what we intend to be yearly releases. If you are using Cassandra and you want to know what’s new, or if you haven’t looked at Cassandra in a while and you wonder what the community is up to, then here’s what you need to know.
First off, let’s address why the Cassandra community is growing. Cassandra was built from the start to be a distributed database that could run across dispersed geographic locations, across different platforms, and to be continuously available despite whatever the world might throw at the service. If you asked ChatGPT to describe a database that today’s developer might need—and we did—the response would sound an awful lot like Cassandra.