What version of Cassandra is Astra?

Question

looking for information on how to confirm which version of Cassandra is running on Astra?

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Answer 1

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]
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