DataStax: An experienced partner in on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud deployments

Nearly every aspect of our everyday lives has been affected or transformed by digital technology. Travel, life, shopping, leisure, and communications are just a part of the many aspects that have been revolutionized in the past few decades. One among the fast-moving technology is cloud computing.

Since the inception of cloud computing, the limitations of traditional IT infrastructure are becoming more apparent year on year. Many businesses today are struggling to adapt to marketplace changes and new trends as their technological environments are inefficient at sensing and responding to these.

Cloud-based services offer a much more scalable and reliable IT infrastructure that is specifically designed to streamline business performance and support development and growth.

DataStax aids companies challenge the swiftly changing digital world where expectations are high and new innovations happen daily. DataStax is an experienced partner in on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud deployments and offers a suite of distributed data management products and cloud services. We make it easy for enterprises to deliver killer apps that crush the competition. 

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database management system designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers, providing high availability with no single point of failure. Apache Cassandra offers robust support for clusters spanning multiple data centers, with asynchronous masterless replication allowing low latency operations for all clients.

Products

Hybrid Cloud: DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the database that is distributed everywhere built for hybrid cloud. It is the only database that offers a consistent data layer across on-premises, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud.

Multi-everything Database: Key-value, graph, tabular, JSON. All models for all types of applications and advanced workloads against a single, integrated backend.

Modern Applications: DSE is the only database that can deliver contextual, always-on, real-time, distributed, scalable solutions made for modern applications.

Solutions

Turbocharged Modern Application Development: A truly scalable, distributed, secure, and never-down database that looks like an RDBMS but is so much more. Visual development and management tools and an SQL-like language makes developing powerful database applications fast and easy.

Any Cloud. Any Data Center. Anywhere In The World: DataStax gives you the ultimate in database deployment flexibility and freedom. It delivers cloud on your terms with the option of maximizing your existing infrastructure investment to put your database wherever you need it.

Indestructible. Literally: Built on the #1 scalable NoSQL database, Apache Cassandra™, DataStax’s unique architecture makes it impervious to database downtime, which keeps your systems up and your doors always open for business.

Challenge accepted, says DataStax

Cloud and Hybrid Cloud

Let’s be honest - database in the cloud is either part of your very near term future or you’re already building database-driven cloud applications. Why not choose a database built from the ground up to exploit all the benefits of the cloud and delivers cloud database functionality on your terms and budget?   

• Only database platform in the market with a true masterless architecture that supports running across all clouds and on-premise with no special administration or development needed
• With functionality like advanced security, integrated analytics, search, multi-model capabilities (including graph!) there’s no need to cobble together lots of different and expensive services that you need from cloud providers

Database Modernization

Whether it’s platforms like the mainframe or legacy databases such as RDBMSs that fall short of meeting your application requirements, it’s time for your database strategy to evolve and support your next-generation business initiatives. Not only does DataStax provide a 21st-century database that is a hand-in-glove fit for your modern application checklist, but it also makes the move from outdated database software a cost-savings event.       

• DataStax’s database platforms contain the modern functionality needed that lets you stop the frustrating process of trying to push the RDBMS square peg through the modern application databaseround hole
• Offloading mainframe data-related tasks to DataStax lets you take advantage of modern database innovations and architectures and save money in the process 

Case study to prove the efficiency

The Opportunity

Capital One needed to be able to significantly speed up its data processing and analysis in order to make much faster data-based decisions. It needed to quickly build a new, real-time reporting and analytics platform.

This new platform needed to have almost continuous availability with an uptime SLA of 99.99% and needed to be have extremely high throughput for same-day financial decision-making. It also needed to be able to scale linearly and reliably.

Capital One needed a distributed database that could handle multiple data sources and destinations and provide powerful reporting tools that allowed fast time to market and quick adaptability to thrive in the Right-Now Economy.

The Solution

Advanced Performance

DSE 6 offers double the performance of the previous version of DSE and has now been independently verified as being at least twice as fast as open source Apache Cassandra.

Apache Cassandra™

The open-source core of our technology and the greatness we are built on, Apache Cassandra offers power and flexibility like no other database.

Database Power

DataStax Enterprise, the leading distributed cloud database built on the best distribution of Apache Cassandra™ and designed for hybrid cloud.

Results

450 million rows of data consolidated from Capital One’s legacy databases, 11+million rows in DataStax Enterprise handling the same data previously contained in 11.8 million rows, 21,000 transactions per second — Performance capability of Capital One’s new data platform.

Meet Chet Kapoor, CEO and Chairman

He is a proven leader and innovator in the tech industry with  more than 20 years in leadership at innovative software and cloud companies, including Google, IBM, BEA Systems, WebMethods, and NeXT. As Chairman and CEO of Apigee, he led company-wide initiatives to build Apigee into a leading technology provider for digital business. Google (Apigee) is the cross-cloud API management platform that operates in a multi- and hybrid-cloud world. Chet earned his B.S. in engineering from Arizona State University.