The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Cassandra version 3.0.0-alpha1.
This is the first test build of Cassandra 3.0 that includes: * New storage engine * New sstable format * Materialized Views We expect bugs in this release so test and report any issues please! Apache Cassandra is a fully distributed database. It is the right choice when you need scalability and high availability without compromising performance. http://cassandra.apache.org/ Downloads of source and binary distributions are listed in our download section: http://cassandra.apache.org/download/ This version is a *ALPHA* release[1] on the 3.0 series. As always, please pay attention to the release notes[2] and Let us know[3] if you were to encounter any problem. Enjoy! [1]: http://goo.gl/qTe3Ed (CHANGES.txt) [2]: http://goo.gl/eMIDGw (NEWS.txt) [3]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA