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title: "Announcing the Cassandra Storage Engine"
publish_date: 2012-09-28
author: "MariaDB"
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# Announcing the Cassandra Storage Engine

We’re pleased to announce the first preview version of the [Cassandra Storage Engine](http://kb.askmonty.org/en/cassandra-storage-engine "Cassandra Storage Engine")! The Cassandra Storage Engine (SE) allows access to [Cassandra](http://cassandra.apache.org/ "Cassandra") databases from MariaDB/MySQL, and to provide data integration between the SQL and NoSQL worlds. Have you ever needed to

- grab some of Cassandra’s data from your web frontend, or SQL query?
- insert a few records into Cassandra from some part of your app?

With Cassandra SE, this is easily possible. Cassandra SE makes Cassandra’s column families appear as MariaDB/MySQL tables that you can insert to, update, and select from. You can perform joins on Cassandra data, or againist data in Cassandra and data in MariaDB. Today we’re releasing a source tarball, as well as a binary tarball package for Ubuntu 12.04. Download links and documentation for this preview release are available at the [Cassandra Storage Engine](http://kb.askmonty.org/en/cassandra-storage-engine "Cassandra Storage Engine") page in our Knowledgebase. Try it out and let us know what you think!