New Features

New Features in Apache Cassandra 5.0

This section covers the new features in Apache Cassandra 5.0.

• Storage Attached Indexes: Docs, CEP-7, JIRA ticket

• Trie memtables: CEP-19, JIRA ticket

• Trie SSTables: CEP-25, JIRA ticket

• JDK 17: Docs, JIRA ticket

• More guardrails: NEWS.txt

• TTL and writetime on collections and UDTs: Docs, JIRA ticket

• New vector data type: Docs, CEP-30, JIRA ticket

• New vector similarity functions: Docs, CEP-30,https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-18640\[JIRA ticket]

• Unified Compaction Strategy: Docs, CEP-26, (CASSANDRA-18397)

• New Mathematical CQL functions: abs, exp, log, log10 and round: Docs, JIRA ticket

• Dynamic Data Masking: Docs, CEP-20, CASSANDRA-17940

• New CIDR authorizer: CEP-33, JIRA ticket

• Extend maximum expiration date (TTL): NEWS.txt, JIRA ticket

• New CQL native scalar functions for collections: JIRA ticket

• New sstablepartitions offline tool to find large partitions: JIRA ticket

• New snitch for Microsoft Azure: JIRA ticket

• Pluggable crypto provider: JIRA ticket

• New virtual table to view system logs: JIRA ticket