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Instaclustr
Company blog · instaclustr.com/blog · on HN as CassandraSmithdatasystems
Instaclustr is the company blog at instaclustr.com, writing about data and systems. Since 2012, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 39 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mostly name Instaclustr as a managed hosting vendor for Cassandra, Kafka, Redis/Valkey and Postgres. The few linked posts cover a patched Cassandra 3.7 LTS release and moving from Redis to Valkey.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
NetApp® Instaclustr Managed Platform and support for open source technologies. Apache Kafka®, Apache Cassandra®, OpenSearch®, PostgreSQL®, Cadence, Apache Spark™, and Valkey™.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-07-10
What Hacker News says?
Yes, Kong plans to add support for PostgreSQL ( https://github.com/Mashape/kong/issues/331 ). In the meanwhile you can outsource Cassandra to cloud providers like https://www.instaclustr.com For testing check out http://kongdb.org/ , but don't use it in production.
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on “Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends”Submitted Elasticsearch on Cassandra as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThere's also https://www.instaclustr.com We don't use them but had a pretty in depth conversation with them about Kafka and they seemed sharp.
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on “AWS Elasticsearch: a fundamentally-flawed offering”Submitted Apache Cassandra 3.x and Materialized Views as a story · 5 points
HN discussion> I think this is mostly due to its multiprocess architecture vs just sharing in memory plans between threads You can share stuff with a multiprocess architecture just fine (either through IPC or just plain shared memory + synchronization) It's true that threads share memory by default, but processes can opt into sharing memory if they wish. And it appears that Postgres already makes use of shared memory for some th…
Comment linking /blog/postgresql-docker-and-shared-memory/
on “What's new in the Postgres 16 query planner”Submitted Show HN: Instaclustr, managed Cassandra hosting on AWS as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI keep hearing Cassandra touted as fast, but I just don't see it. Instacluster brags about 17ms at the 99th percentile being fast, but where I come from that gets you thrown out of the running.[1] The Netflix benchmark linked above sees 10,000 ops/sec/node. Again, not impressive. Skip to slide 22 of this comparative benchmark with Couchbase Server[2] and you'll see that <5ms latencies at 99% is totally achievable. W…
Comment linking /solution
on “PostgreSQL as Schemaless Database [pdf]”Submitted Fantasy Basketball exploration with Elassandra as a story · 4 points
HN discussionDefinitely try Cassandra and if you don't want to run it yourself try https://www.instaclustr.com/
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on “Ask HN: What DB to use for huge time series?”Submitted Instaclustr Launches Managed Cassandra for Kong as a story · 4 points
HN discussion* Google added support to Valkey: https://cloud.google.com/memorystore * AWS says they are moving: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/why-aws-supports-val... * Aiven added Valkey: https://aiven.io/blog/introducing-aiven-for-valkey * Instaclustr mentioned moving: https://www.instaclustr.com/blog/redis-to-valkey/ * Oracle indicated support: https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/post/oracle-su... Azure is…
Comment linking /blog/redis-to-valkey/
on “Valkey 8.0.0 Is Out”Submitted Cassandra on Rackspace as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis comment is super flagrant self promotion, but if you are an Australian developer who wants to stay in Australia and work at a scale only usually available in the US. Check out https://www.instaclustr.com/careers We work with companies like Doordash, Atlassian, Sonos and Dream 11 running some of their most important databases at massive scale.. and these are just the ones we can mention. On top of that we are in…
Comment linking /careers
on “DevSkiller IT skills report 2021: Demand and hiring trends”Submitted Apache Cassandra 6 Accord transactions: What you need to know as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere is a lot of adoption of Valkey. I know it's fun to hate on AWS, but there is a wider shift than just them. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/announcing-... https://upcloud.com/blog/now-supporting-valkey https://aiven.io/blog/introducing-aiven-for-valkey https://www.instaclustr.com/blog/valkey-now-available/ https://elest.io/open-source/valkey
Comment linking /blog/valkey-now-available/
on “The Fastest Redis Ever”Submitted Common Cassandra data model traps as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://www.instaclustr.com/
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on “Mashape Open-Sources Its Kong API Management Platform”Submitted Instaclustr: Lightweight Cassandra on AWS for $20/mo/node as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFYI we put out a blog post that talks a little bit more about why we decided to create a third party LTS release: https://www.instaclustr.com/blog/2016/10/19/patched-cassandr...
Comment linking /blog/2016/10/19/patched-cassandra-3-7/
on “This is not a fork: Cassandra 3.7 LTS”Submitted Instaclustr: Managed Apache Cassandra hosting on Amazon Web Services as a story · 3 points
HN discussionA colleague worked for https://www.instaclustr.com/platform/managed-postgresql/ . Not sure about pricing.
Comment linking /platform/managed-postgresql/
on “From AWS to Hetzner: Managed RDS (Equivalent of RDS/Postgres) in Hetzner”Submitted An Introduction to PostgreSQL Full-Text Search as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Get better price-to-performance with the new AWS M5 instance types as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apache Cassandra Compaction Strategies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apache Cassandra Compaction Strategies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Connecting to a Cassandra cluster using TLS/SSL as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apache Cassandra 2.2 – 5 things you need to know as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Instaclustr - MongoHQ for Cassandra as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing Instaclustr - quickly deploy Cassandra on AWS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Largest Apache Kafka and Apache Cassandra Migration? as a story · 1 points
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