Instaclustr: Why DBaaS is Taking Off with Cassandra

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Why DBaaS is taking off with Cassandra

September((2015(

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“DBaaS&is&the&fastest&growing&category&in&the&next&4&years”&

Forrester(Report,(June(25th(2015(

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Half the market shows up every 2 years

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Cassandra

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What is DBaaS

“On-demand secure and self service database that automates provisioning and administration of the database to support new business applications and information insights”

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“It takes enormous time, effort and coordination to provision new databases today because of lack of resources to meet the administration challenges of rolling out complex clustered systems”

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Reasons not to….

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What to look for from a Vendor

Global( Performance(<(SLA( Available((

Data(storage(( Back(up(and(recovery(( Scalable(Pricing(Model(

Support(

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How easy is it?

IBM

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Best Practices

• Start(small(

• Non<criJcal(app/env(

Test(

• Right(data(model(

• Avoid(tuning(before(understanding((

• Know(what(Cassandra(can(do(

Deploy(

• AutomaJc(Scaling(

• MulJ<region(

• MulJ<DC(

• MulJi<provider(Scale((