July 2016 Summaries

DevCenter 1.6.0 has been released and is now available for download. This update introduces new features such as support for DSE Search, export keyspace, handling large results sets, and more. The release notes provide a comprehensive list of these updates along with additional details. Additionally, several bug fixes have been included in this version.

Datastax Studio introduces a powerful web-based notebook editor for executing graph queries and visualizing results with DSE Graph 5.0. The Gremlin editor comes with features like syntax validation, type checking, and domain specific validations to help users write Gremlin queries better and faster. Additionally, the content assist feature provides method, variable, class, and other types of proposals for more efficient coding. Studio also offers schema assist, which uses a graph's schema to suggest property keys and label values while writing queries.

DataStax Enterprise 5.0 introduces DSE Graph, the first massively scalable and high performance graph database. Alongside this release comes DataStax Studio, a web-based application for querying, exploring, analyzing, and visualizing graph data. Designed to satisfy the needs of architects, developers, and data scientists using DSE Graph, DataStax Studio features an intelligent code editor for Gremlin with code completions, schema completions, and validations. It also provides a whiteboard-like view of your graph's organization and connections, as well as support for numerous output formats and visualizations, including grid, JSON, plain text viewers, charts (pie, bar, line, area, scatter), and the graph view with zooming and dragging capabilities.

The DataStax Enterprise Java Driver 1.0.0 is a standalone project built on top of the "core" driver, supporting additional features provided by DSE 5.0 such as Unified Authentication, Geospatial types, and Graph. It introduces dedicated Cluster and Session wrappers (DseCluster and DseSession) with added capabilities. The legacy driver extensions for DSE are deprecated in favor of this new driver. For clients connecting to a DSE cluster secured with DSE Unified Authentication, two authentication providers are included. DataStax Enterprise 5.0 comes with additional types to represent geospatial data and supports both CQL and Gremlin query languages for interacting with standard Cassandra tables and DSE Graph respectively. The driver is available from Maven Central and documentation can be found at specific locations.