Aiven now supports Apache Cassandra® 4.0. This is the first major version upgrade since Apache Cassandra® 3.0 was released in 2015.
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Apache Cassandra 4.0 is particularly noted for its improved stability, better performance, and faster speed. Cassandra 4.0 delivers up to 25% faster throughput on read and write operations and leverages Zero Copy Streaming to stream data up to 5 times faster.
Here are some of the key features introduced in Cassandra 4:
*Not available yet, but will soon be included in Aiven for Apache Cassandra.
Full details on all of the new features are listed on the Cassandra 4.0 web page:
https://cassandra.apache.org/doc/4.0/cassandra/new/index.html
Upgrade to Apache Cassandra 4.0 to take advantage of these features. If you already use Aiven for Apache Cassandra 3, you can easily run an in-place upgrade to start using the newest version.
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