New Intel® Hardware Pushes DSE Even Further Ahead of Apache Cassandra®

In April 2018, DataStax Enterprise (DSE) 6 was released with significant performance improvements over previous versions and Cassandra. The new thread-per-core asynchronous architecture and storage engine enhancements contributed to this boost in speed. A year later, Intel introduced the second generation of its Scalable processors, which further increased the performance gap between DSE and Cassandra due to optimizations for Optane™ Persistent Memory Modules. The combined innovations from DataStax and Intel have resulted in a highly efficient database, CPU, and storage system. Benchmark tests using DSE 6.7 and DataStax Distribution of Apache Cassandra® revealed that the new Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory Module outperforms NVMe drives on a 4-node cluster with 40-core Cascade Lake Xeon® Scalable data center processors. Users are encouraged to upgrade to DSE 6 or 6.7 and explore Intel's latest product line for enhanced performance without data model changes. DataStax is also collaborating with Intel on software innovations related to Cassandra, which will be previewed at the DataStax Accelerate conference in May 2019.