Brisk 1.0 Beta 2 Released

DataStax has released Brisk 1.0 Beta 2, an open-source Hadoop and Hive distribution that utilizes Apache Cassandra for its core services and storage. The new features added in this release include Apache Pig Integration, Job Tracker Failover, Snappy Compression Codec, automatic Cassandra Column Families to Hive Tables mapping, and a second HDFS layer in CassandraFS for long-term data storage. Additionally, Brisk 1.0 Beta 2 includes major fixes such as removing multiple slf4j warnings, using batchMutate instead of insert in HiveCassandraOutputFormat, improving performance of hadoop fs -ls, and addressing compaction issue causing secondary index corruption.