DataStax Releases Stargate v2 Data Gateway
- By DSAITrends editors
- November 16, 2022
DataStax has announced the launch of Stargate v2, a new version of its open-source data gateway that allows developers to build real-time applications for Apache Cassandra using their API of choice.
Apache Cassandra is an open-source NoSQL database known for its ability to handle large amounts of data distributed across multiple nodes for reliability and lightning-fast access.
Stargate v2
First introduced in 2020, Stargate makes Cassandra easily accessible to developers through a broad range of APIs that includes JSON, GraphQL, REST, and gRPC APIs. Using the JSON Document API, for instance, developers can use Cassandra as a NoSQL Document database, alongside the traditional wide-column database model. This empowers them to pick the NoSQL database model that best suits their needs.
Stargate v2 now features a high-performance gRPC API that enables developers to easily scale Cassandra data to serve billions of global devices in real-time. DataStax says the new approach is easier to learn than native drivers, with vastly superior performance than any web API.
Moreover, adding a new API service on Stargate is now much simpler with the gRPC bridge API. There is no longer a need to learn the entire Stargate code base to adapt Cassandra to the unique APIs and data serialization formats of an organization.
Under the hood, Stargate is now fully cloud-native with new node types that bring modular, service-oriented architecture to Apache Cassandra. The v2 architecture lets developers scale usage and tune performance more granularly by making each service independently deployable, using dedicated node types for data storage, query coordination, and API services.
“This year downloads of open source Stargate for Apache Cassandra 4.0 have increased [7 times]. Stargate is empowering developers to pick the data model that best suits their needs and evolve it dynamically, leveraging the power of Cassandra - the most scalable database in existence,” said Ed Anuff, the chief procurement officer at DataStax.
“With Stargate, developers no longer have to learn everything to do anything. They can focus on their particular areas of expertise and interest as they develop high-growth applications,” said Anuff.
Stargate v2 is available as open-source software on GitHub and is also part of DataStax’s Astra DB database-as-a-service. In addition, it is expected to be available soon on Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services for GKE and EKS respectively.
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