Going Driverless with Stargate v2 and the Cloud-Native Apache Cassandra Database

Stargate v2 is a data API gateway that brings Apache Cassandra to the forefront of driverless cloud-native databases alongside other technologies like etcd, ClickHouse, PrestoDB, and Apache Pinot. Real-time applications on the cloud are moving away from native drivers for app-to-data connections due to the increasing obscurity of code in modern computing environments. DataStax's research shows that 71% of organizations can directly link revenue growth to the use of real-time data, with those making it a strategic focus being 2.3X more likely to experience a transformative impact on revenue. Stargate v2 elevates gRPC to native-driver-level performance while exposing Apache Cassandra over other web APIs and a JSON Document interface, simplifying data access and management in cloud-native systems. The new architecture of Stargate v2 is modular, improving performance and operational control by using dedicated node types for data storage, query coordination, and API services. This allows independent deployment and scalability of these nodes, enabling operations teams to locate workloads on optimal hardware or scale only the bottlenecked components.