DataStax releases K8ssandra the Kubernetes peace offering to the open-source community
‘Like any good family, you’re going to have fights,’ says dev relations bloke The team behind the NoSQL database DataStax, which is built on Apache Cassandra, has emitted a distribution designed specifically for Kubernetes and supports stateful workloads – and it’s called K8ssandra.…
Date: 2020-11-19
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