Indexing the entirety of English Wikipedia on a laptop has become a practical reality thanks to recent advances in the JVector library that will be part of the imminent 3.0 release.
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JVector 1.0
JVector is a pure Java embedded vector search engine that powers DataStax Astra and is being added to Apache Cassandra.
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Why Pulsar Beats Kafka for a Scalable, Distributed Data Architecture
The leading open source event streaming platforms are Apache Kafka and Apache Pulsar. For enterprise architects and application developers, choosing the right event streaming approach is critical, as these technologies will help their apps scale up around data to support …
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The Critical Role Streaming Plays in a Data Stack
In this article we are discussed Why Apache Pulsar and its support for streaming data is the right choice for multi-datacenter, geo-distributed deployments.
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Four Reasons Why Apache Pulsar is Essential to the Modern Data Stack
Messaging has been on DataStax’s radar for several years. Let’s learn the top reasons why we should consider Apache Pulsar.
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Apache Cassandra 4.0: Taming Tail Latencies with Java 16 ZGC
With Apache Cassandra 4.0, you not only get the direct improvements to performance added by the Apache Cassandra committers, you also unlock the ability to take advantage of seven years of improvements in the JVM itself.
This article focuses on improvements in Java garbage collection that Cassandra 4.0 coupled with Java 16 offers over Cassandra 3.11 on Java 8.