Acunu Data Platform v1.2 released!
By Manu Marchal
22 Nov 2011
Category:
Product News
We're excited to announce the release of version 1.2 of the Acunu Data Platform, incorporating Apache Cassandra -- the fastest and lowest-risk route to building a production-grade Cassandra cluster.
The Acunu Data Platform (ADP) is an all-in-one distributed database solution, delivered as a software appliance for your own data center or an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for cloud deployments. It includes:
- A hardened version of Apache Cassandra that is 100% compatible with existing Cassandra applications
- The Acunu Core, a file system and embedded database designed from the ground-up for Big Data workloads
- A web-based management console that simplifies deployment, monitoring and scaling of your cluster.
- Your standard Linux Centos
This release lets you:
- Build a production-grade cluster quickly. Our installer configures the whole machine for you, from database down to disks. Then point a web browser at the management UI that runs on every machine to manage or grow your cluster. With the Acunu Core, your Cassandra cluster is inherently tuning-free, reducing the risk and lowering the barrier to entry to dependable production deployments.
- Deliver consistent performance, even under high load. Thanks to the Acunu Core, ADP eliminates garbage collection pauses and optimises caching and prefetching. It delivers performance on slow SATA disks that is blisteringly fast but consistent and dependable under sustained peak load.
- Scale up, as well as scale out. ADP is horizontally scalable, meaning you can add nodes to meet additional capacity or performance needs. But scaling out is only half the story. ADP delivers higher utilisation of hardware resources than even enterprise storage appliances. This means you need fewer nodes to meet your needs.
- Monitor your whole stack at once. It ships complete with cluster-wide management tools that significantly simplify deploying and running a tuned, production-grade Cassandra cluster.
- Robust and tested end-to-end: This release has undergone more than a thousand hours of automated and manual testing, including multi-terabyte workloads on hundreds of billions of keys. We test on EC2 and on hardware, to make Acunu more robust than any other Big Data or NoSQL database.
Other new features in version 1.2 include improved redistribution of data when adding new nodes to the cluster, better handling of distributed counters, and a new backup utility.
To find out more, contact us or download the release now!
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