DataStax Preps Launch Of Cassandra Management Interface

DataStax, the first commercial company to offer technical support and consulting for Cassandra, has introduced a management interface for the NoSQL system. Cassandra manages big data at such sites as Netflix, Twitter, and Facebook.

Two former Rackspace employees, Jonathan Ellis, CTO, and Matt Pfeil, CEO, founded DataStax (originally called Riptano) in April 2010. Pfeil in a recent interview said that when he first learned Ellis planned to leave Rackspace, he took him out to lunch to talk him out of it. Instead, Pfeil ended up leaving Rackspace as well to become the company's co-founder and CEO. "Jonathan can be quite persuasive at times," he said.

On Feb. 1 at O'Reilly's Strata big data conference in Santa Clara, Calif., the firm announced the beta version of its management interface, OpsCenter for Cassandra. The software is slated to become a generally available product by the end of March, said Pfeil.