HyperDex 1.5: Authorization

[Robert Escriva]

We are proud to announce HyperDex 1.5, the next generation NoSQL data
store that provides ACID transactions, schema-less documents, per-object
authorization fault-tolerance, and high-performance. Some key features
of HyperDex are:

- High Performance: HyperDex is fast. It outperforms MongoDB and
Cassandra on industry-standard benchmarks by a factor of 2X or more.

- Advanced Functionality: With the Warp add-on, HyperDex offers
multi-key transactions that span multiple objects with ACID
guarantees.

- Strong Consistency: HyperDex ensures that every GET returns the
result of the latest PUT.

- Fault Tolerance: HyperDex automatically replicates data to tolerate a
configurable number of failures.

- Scalable: HyperDex automatically redistributes data to make use of
new resources as you add more nodes to your cluster.

This release brings the following changes and improvements:

- Per object authorization: HyperDex uses macaroons for authorization.
Macaroons are a new authorization framework from Google that enables
per-object authorization, and enables decentralized authorization
across an entire cluster.

Read more about macaroons in the new documentation chapter:
http://hyperdex.org/doc/latest/Authorization

HyperDex runs on 64-bit Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Centos) and OS X.
Binary packages for Debian 7, Ubuntu 12.04,14.04, Fedora 20, and CentOS
6,7 are available [1], as well as source tarballs for other Linux
platforms.

This release provides bindings for C, C++, Python, Node.js, Java, Ruby,
and Go.

An evaluation version of Warp, and Warp bindings for Python, Java, and
Ruby are available in the HyperDex repository. Install the
"hyperdex-warp" package in your package manager to switch from HyperDex
to Warp and test out the evaluation version.

Happy Hacking,
The HyperDex Team

[1] http://hyperdex.org/download