DataStax Enterprise 5.1 new features
Features released in DataStax Enterprise 5.1.
cassandra-env.sh
The location of the cassandra-env.sh file depends on the type of installation:
Package installations |
/etc/dse/cassandra/cassandra-env.sh |
Tarball installations |
installation_location/resources/cassandra/conf/cassandra-env.sh |
Feature | Description |
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DSE Analytics | Support for Apache Spark™ 2.0 including SparkR. Improvements include operational improvements, performance improvements, structured streaming, DSE GraphFrames, Spark SQL, and geospatial types. |
DSEFS | DataStax Enterprise File System provides a distributed file system for storing very large data sets, such as Spark Streaming data and analytic processing. DSEFS replaces the CFS (Cassandra File System). |
DSE Graph | Improvements includes new fuzzy search; advanced configuration of search indexing; better data loading performance; improved geospatial querying; Kerberos support for Graph Loader; ability to customize graph visualizations; and stability improvements. |
DSE Security | New security features include granular access control that allows permissions on table rows and search indexes; DSE Proxy management for web services; and JMX authentication integrated with DSE Unified Authentication (LDAP or internal). For details, see New security features in DSE 5.1. |
DSE Search | Faster and simplified DSE Search using Apache Solr™ 6.0. New index management CQL and cqlsh commands to streamline operations and development. Improved query and indexing performance. Enhanced error handling and improvements in hardening and stability. |
DSE Advanced Replication | Re-designed to use CDC (Change Data Capture) logs, CDC is ideal for configurable replication between sources and destinations. Suitable for environments where sporadic connectivity that can occur, such as a network of microservices clusters that report data to a central analytics cluster. |
Drivers | Support for new DSE 5.1 functionality, such as Unified Authentication, proxy login and execution, and the new data types. Additionally, the Java and Python drivers contain a DSE Graph fluent API that use the Gremlin Traversal API for programmatically building Gremlin queries. |
DataStax Studio | Added support for CQL (Cassandra Query Language). This new features provides
the ability to visually navigate database objects, create and tune CQL queries.
Studio features an intelligent CQL editor providing syntax highlighting, validation,
intelligent code completion, configuration options, and query profiling.
Improvements in DSE Studio for DSE Graph include better usability; more complete profiling for graph queries; and new customization capabilities for graph visualization, including coloring and sizing vertices by label or property value, and custom shapes and icons. Schema visualization is also improved. |
DSE In-Memory | MemoryOnlyStrategy now works with compression. |
Operations | Performance improvements including faster server startup. Improved help for CQL and cqlsh commands. Tab completion to cqlsh for DSE custom compaction strategies. Improvements to dsetool and dse client-tool. |
New database features |
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For more details, see the DataStax Enterprise 5.1 release notes. To upgrade to DataStax Enterprise 5.1, see the DataStax Upgrade Guide.