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Cassandra 5.0 - ACID transactions and Vector Search

Jul 3, 2023
50:01

Hey Everyone, In this video I talk to Patrick McFadin from DataStax. We uncovered the new features in Cassandra 5.0 and discussed how ACID transactions are achieved in the new version. This is a deep dive into the features of Cassandra, consensus protocols and how Accord is different as compared to Paxos, RAFT, Spanner and Calvin. Chapters: Cassandra 5.0 - ACID transactions and Vector Search 00:00 Introduction 01:45 List of features in the new Cassandra 04:51 Who needs ACID properties? 07:20 Why didn't Cassandra have ACID properties so far? 10:35 Why is Accord consensus protocol well suited for Cassandra? 16:40 Lets take a gaming example to see how Transactions work 21:55 Whats happening behind the scenes in a Transactions? 27:44 What happens when there are failures? 33:41 How is upgrade to the new version going to look like? 35:48 How is the latency impacted because of transactions? 40:23 What was missing in lightweight transactions? 42:24 Vector Search - What is it? How does it work? Previous episode on Cassandra:    • Apache Cassandra ...   Other playlists to watch: Distributed systems and Databases:    • Distributed Syste...   Software Engineering:    • Software Engineering   Distributed systems:    • Distributed Systems   Modern Databases:    • Modern Databases   Patrick's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-m... Astra: astra.datastax.com Cassandra: https://cassandra.apache.org/_/index.... I hope you liked this episode. If you did, please hit the like button, share it with your network and subscribe to the channel. Cheers, The GeekNarrator

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