New Features

New Features in Apache Cassandra 6.0

This section covers the new features in Apache Cassandra 6.0.

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, JIRA ticket
Unified Compaction Strategy: Docs, CEP-26, JIRA ticket
New Mathematical CQL functions: abs, exp, log, log10 and round: Docs, JIRA ticket
Dynamic Data Masking: Docs, CEP-20, JIRA ticket
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