New Features New Features in Apache Cassandra 5.0 This section covers the new features in Apache Cassandra 5.0. Storage Attached Indexes Trie Memtables Trie SSTables More Guardrails TTL and writetime on collections and UDTs JDK 17 New Mathematical CQL functions: abs, exp, log, log10 and round New CQL native scalar functions for collections Extend maximum expiration date (TTL) Dynamic Data Masking New vector data type New vector similarity functions Unified Compaction Strategy New sstablepartitions offline tool to find large partitions New snitch for Microsoft Azure New CIDR authorizer Pluggable crypto provider New virtual table to view system logs