Webinar: Top 5 Reasons Why DataStax Enterprise Is Game Changing For Architects

Top 5 Reasons Why DataStax Enterprise is Game Changing for Architects June 28, 2016Robin Schumacher – VP of Products

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The Data Architecture Evolution

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Performance

Scalability Availability Security

Agility / Manageability

Top 5 Challenges of Cloud Applications

Why Legacy Databases Won’t Work


The Architect’s Database Platform for Cloud Applications


#1: Performance and Scalability

Scale Up: Most RDBMS’s and Some NoSQL

Scale Out: Some NoSQL, but…

Ask the question: Can you scale out BOTH writes and reads?


Two Approaches

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Do the Math

End Point BenchmarkDSE Cassandra beat Couchbase, MongoDB and HBase by a wide margin in every test

Available as a whitepaper on DataStax.com

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Read-Mostly (90% reads; 10% updates)

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Data Locality = Consistent Performance

• Six billion writes; 5 billion reads per day on DSE • 100’s of TB’s of operational data on DSE• Multi-data center• One app utilizes a 40TB operational table


“We started with Postgres on Heroku. However, we hit issues early on because we would, for example, add a million new users with each new app, and no matter how much we’d tune Postgres, it simply couldn’t scale to the level we needed. To be honest, it was quite a nightmare.

With our solution, adding a new app can mean adding two million more users in the next hour, and we realized an RDBMS was simply not going to work for us. We had no way of being able to predict and ensure the performance we needed.” – RatnamTatavarty, CTO.


#2: Availability

The Benefits of a Masterless Architecture

Master/Slave(RDBMS or NoSQL) Masterless

Single points of failure No single points of failureMaster-slave replication Fully distributed replicationModerately hard replication management Easy replication management

Multi-geography hard or impossible Multi-geography + cloud easyLocation dependent for writes Location Independent for writesFailover Active everywhere High availability Continuous availability


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Active Everywhere = Continuous Availability

“During Hurricane Sandy, we lost an entire data center. Completely. Lost. It. Our data in Cassandra never went offline. Then, when that data center came back online, we spent a lot of time manually rebuilding other databases that we use, shipping drives across country and what not, but for Cassandra, all we did was turn it back on in that data center and ran a single command, and it brought itself back up to speed with no other manual work.” – Nathan Milford, Outbrain. © DataStax, All Rights Reserved.

• Multi-cluster replication, hub-and-spoke. Supports sporadic connectivity.

• Allows one-way replication from “edge” cluster to another, centralized hub cluster.

• Ideal for retail, energy, “edge of the internet of things”, and data sovereignty use cases.


New in DSE 5.0 – Advanced Replication

#3: Security


Enterprise Security Must-Have’s

Standard ID/Password management

Third party security software support

Object permission management

Data auditing (granular)

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“We’re dealing with multiple levels of compliancy, industry standards and auditing with medical data, so the security in DSE was important to us. ” – John Fitch, VP Innovations, Hart. © DataStax, All Rights Reserved.

Security Enhancements in DSE 5.0• Encryption for Cassandra and DSE Search commit logs and index

files. • Role based access control. • Unified Authentication: Allows multiple security authentication

protocols (e.g. Kerberos, LDAP, Active Directory, internal Cassandra) to be used on the same database cluster.


#4: Manageability

Headache and Heartache


Simplifying Distributed Database Management• Certified Software: No surprises for production environments. • DSE Management Services: Transparently handles key

maintenance operations without staff intervention. • DSE OpsCenter: Web-based distributed database management and

monitoring software.


“DataStax OpsCenter made it really, really easy for our level 2 support team to get a quick glance at overall system health and pull in devs as needed to help correct any issues.” – Target


Manageability Enhancements in DSE 5.0• DSE Tiered Storage: Transparently

shifts older, infrequently accessed data from high performance SSDs to slower more economically-friendly HDDs based on your criteria.

• DSE Multi-Instance: Run multiple DSE instances (database processes) on individual hosts without the need for a virtualization or container layer.


Manageability Enhancements in OpsCenter 6.0• Lifecycle Manager: Enterprise-class provisioning and change

management for distributed database clusters.


#5: Agility

The Modular Cloud Application

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Your Application

Your Database InfrastructureWorkloads

Data Models

Key Value Tabular Document Relational Graph

Transactional Analytical Search


Multi-Workload and Multi-Model Platform

Transactional Analytical Search

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Which Data Model Do I use?

• Scale-out graph database for cloud applications that need to manage complex and highly connected data.

• Supports graph model natively inside DSE, engineered specifically for Cassandra.

• Built-in support for real-time search, and analytic graph queries via tight integration with DSE.

• Part of DSE’s multi-model platform.


DSE Graph – Scale Out Power for Graph

• Web-based developer solution.• Helps developers visually interact with and query DSE Graph

databases.• Will eventually support CQL, DSE Search, and DSE Analytics

developer needs.

Introducing DataStax Studio


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A Completely Integrated Solution for Graph

Java Python C++ More…


Server Visual Management / Monitoring

Visual Development Integrated Drivers (CQL, Gremlin, etc.)

Accenture Asgard uses DSE Graph to detect and help prevent cyber security attacks.


Final Thoughts


Performance

Scalability Availability Security

Agility / Manageability

Top 5 Challenges of Cloud Applications


Handled by DataStax Enterprise

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