What’s New for DataStax Enterprise Analytics 6

The latest release of DSE Analytics focuses on non-stop availability and ease-of-use for operational analytics workloads, introducing significant new features. These include improvements to Continuous Paging, the general availability of DSEFS, enhancements to DSE’s Spark Resource Manager, and the introduction of AlwaysOn SQL, a production-ready ODBC/JDBC service that provides SQL access to data in DSE. Additionally, DSE 6 upgrades the DSE Analytics engine to Apache Spark 2.2, introduces a new Structured Streaming sink for DSE, and leverages any DSE Search indices. These enhancements improve simplicity, reliability, flexibility, and performance of the DSE platform.