New Features in Apache Cassandra 4.1

This section covers the new features in Apache Cassandra 4.1.

• Paxos v2

• Guardrails

• New and Improved Configuration Format

• Client-side Password Hashing

• Partition Denylist

• Lots of CQL improvements

• New SSTable Identifiers

• Native Transport rate limiting

• Top partition tracking per table

• Hint Window consistency

• Pluggability

  • Memtable

  • Encryption

  • CQLSH Authentication

• and much more