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What version of Cassandra is Astra?

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What version of Cassandra is Astra?: It runs a custom version of Cassandra, closer to the Cassandra 4.0, with some functionality from the DataStax Enterprise, like Storage-Attached Indexes , etc.

It runs a custom version of Cassandra, closer to the Cassandra 4.0, with some functionality from the DataStax Enterprise, like Storage-Attached Indexes , etc. If you create a database, and open the CQL console you'll see following message: Connected to caas-cluster at caas-cluster-caas-dc-service:9042. [cqlsh 6.8.0 | DSE 6.8.4.145 | CQL spec 3.4.5 | DSE protocol v2] Use HELP for help.

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