“Our need to improve those text searches is why we looked at DataStax and DataStax Enterprise,” says McPheeters. “We really like the integration with Solr. We get the full redundancy that you’d expect out of Cassandra as well as the full text indexing of Solr. The two things together make a win.” McPheeters credits his colleague Mike Rowe, chief architect for the application development group at Healthx, with ensuring a smooth transition to Cassandra. “He changed our applications data access layer so we could route requests to either Microsoft SQL server or DataStax Enterprise,” he says. “This allows us to flip back and forth as needed – and we didn’t have to make any other changes to the application.” Making plans–and learning new skills Once the provider directory project with Cass

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