Instaclustr: Why DBaaS is Taking Off with Cassandra

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Why DBaaS is taking off with Cassandra

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

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


Half the market shows up every 2 years



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”



“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”


Reasons not to….


What to look for from a Vendor

Global( Performance(<(SLA( Available((

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

Support(


How easy is it?

IBM


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((

Technology

Instaclustr: Why DBaaS is Taking Off with Cassandra