DataStax Software Development

Back in 2017, AllCode became a DataStax Partner. We assist DataStax with implementations of DSE which, from a high-level perspective, consists of the following: A high availability, high performance, fault tolerant Data Store based upon Apache Cassandra. The CAP Theorem is a concept that a distributed database system can only have 2 of the 3: Consistency, Availability and Partition Tolerance. Cassandra chooses Availability and Partition Tolerance over Consistency.With deep search capabilities, DSE integrates with Apache SOLR for searching rows and for use as secondary indexes.To provide deep analytics, DSE integrates with Apache Spark 2.0.x.The ability to walk relationships. DSE has a Graph database implementation built on top of Cassandra, inspired by Titan.

DataStax Enterprise is not a Relational Database, but DataStax is designed to behave similar to an RDBMS. This can create confusion at times. For example:

Instead of being called Structure Query Language (SQL), the query language for DataStax is called Cassandra Query Language(CQL), since the product is built on top of Apache Cassandra.Similar to traditional RDBMS databases that have A Read–Eval–Print Loop (REPL) entitled ISQL or T-SQL, DSE has CQLSH for their REPL.When you’re interacting with tables within a REPL or application code, you can’t join on tables. Joins are actually prohibited, which means that you need to design your tables differently.In addition, your queries have limited grouping and only some aggregation capabilities.