webinar | introducing datastax enterprise 4.6
TRANSCRIPT
Introducing DataStax Enterprise 4.6 and
OpsCenter 5.1
Robin Schumacher
VP Products, DataStax
Agenda
• Overview of DataStax, Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise
• What’s New in DataStax Enterprise 4.6
• What’s New in OpsCenter 5.1
• Getting Started
• Q&A
Founded in April 2010
~400
Santa Clara, Austin, New York, London,
Paris, Tokyo, Melbourne
~375Employees Customers
~28Percent
Overview
DataStax helps companies infuse the
data-driven DNA of Internet Companies
into their Enterprise infrastructure.
Creating The Internet Enterprise
Cassandra – The Leading Distributed Database
San
Francisco
Stockholm
New York
Cassandra is built to solve…
Radically connected / fully distributed
Cost and complexity
Cassandra first principles…
When things fail, remain online
Predictable and affordable scale
Exploit cloud and multi-datacenter
Flexible data models and data types
We Deliver to Enterprise Software Standards
Support & Training
Dev. IDE & Drivers
ProfessionalServices
Security
VisualMonitoring
ManagementServices
In-MemorySpark
Analytics
Search
Commercial
Confidence
Enterprise
Functionality
Enterprise-ready
Cassandra
Multiple Industries and Verticals
Safeway Deploys a Richer Consumer
Experience through Smart Transactions
Evolved from solely a brick and mortar into a data-driven Internet
Enterprise
Ushering in a more sophisticated interaction with buyers via
smart transactions
Chose DataStax for continuous availability, linear scalability, and
operational simplicity
Leverage purchasing data for 4.5M+ shoppers to deliver a highly
personalized shopping experience
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DSE 4.6: Increased Performance for IOT, Web & Mobile Applications
Analytics for Streaming Data - Apache SparkTM streaming analytics integrated with real-time
transactions for real-time insights on what customers want, in context
LDAP/Active Directory Integration: Easier integration with IT security infrastructure and centralized
management of user credentials
Faster and Easier Enterprise Search: Fastest response times on certain use cases
Why Streaming Data? 30X Growth in Devices By 2020
Increased performance for
internet-of-things applications
Real-time data use cases where
data is quickly being consumed
and analyzed
Application examples include
machine learning such as click
prediction, spam filters,
personalization and search
ranking
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What Use Cases Benefit from Streaming Support
You can now easily use DataStax Enterprise for
streaming data use cases
Includes SparkSQL, which allows easier application
development for Spark-based apps
Strengthens DataStax Enterprise’s strong analytical
capabilities for real-time, batch, and external
analytics support
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Faster and Easier Analytics
Realtime
Analytics
Batch
Analytics
Search
Online
Txns
British Gas Tackles Internet-of-Things with DataStax
Connected Homes, a new business unit, handles IoT-based customer systems
Provides remote control over thermostats and boilers via smart phones/tablets
Delivers analytics on energy usage to customers
Will be using predictive analysis to forecast things like boiler failures
Uses DataStax Enterprise for transactional data consumption and real-time analytics
Apex Pioneers ‘Smarter’ Supply Chain Management
Global leader in supply chain technology delivers data-driven internet appliances
Legacy technologies can’t ensure uptime, perform poorly at scale, and are too costly
High velocity of sensor-driven, time-series data handled easily by DataStax
Able to analyze user behavior activity in real time to improve inventory management
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DSE 4.6: Increased Performance for IOT, Web & Mobile Applications
Analytics for Streaming Data - Apache SparkTM streaming analytics integrated with real-time
transactions for real-time insights on what customers want, in context
LDAP/Active Directory Integration: Easier integration with IT security infrastructure and centralized
management of user credentials
Faster and Easier Enterprise Search: Fastest response times on certain use cases
LDAP / Active Directory Support
Seamlessly integrates with these security packages achieving internal and external security compliance
Supports OpenLDAP v2.4, Windows 2008/2012 Active Directory, and Oracle Directory Server EE 11g release 1
Enhances existing enterprise-security feature set of Kerberos support, transparent data encryption, data auditing, internal authorization/authentication, and client-to-node/node-to-node data encryption
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consent.
Realtime
Analytics
Batch
Analytics
SearchOnline
Txns
Netflix Delights Customers With Personal Recommendations
World’s leading streaming media provider with digital revenue $1.5BN+
Tailors content delivery based on viewing preference data captured in Cassandra
Introduction of ‘Profiles’ drove throughput to over 10M transactions per second – 1 trillion/day
Replaced Oracle in 6 data centers, worldwide, 100% in the cloud
Uses DataStax Enterprise for enterprise-class security
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DSE 4.6: Increased Performance for IOT, Web & Mobile Applications
Analytics for Streaming Data - Apache SparkTM streaming analytics integrated with real-time
transactions for real-time insights on what customers want, in context
LDAP/Active Directory Integration: Easier integration with IT security infrastructure and centralized
management of user credentials
Faster and Easier Enterprise Search: Fastest response times on certain use cases
Search Diagnostic Tables – Easily diagnose search
performance via CQL-based objects in the DataStax
Enterprise Performance Service
Solr Syntax Support in CQL – Easily query search data
with a SQL-like language (CQL)
Improved performance for Search with Vnodes – Easier
setup and maintenance of search systems
Affinity-based Search - Faster search response times for
certain search use cases
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Faster and Easier Search
Datafiniti is a search engine for data
Maintains massive database of all data available on the Web (e.g. businesses, people, products)
Consumes high-speed data into Cassandra
Provides fast and easy search of data via DataStax Enterprise Search
Datafiniti Helps Customers Find Data with DataStax
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OpsCenter 5.1: New Levels of Operational Simplicity with Ultra High Availability
Simple Backup and Restore: Push-button simple backup/restore with new options to restore data to
and from the cloud
High Availability: New option allows a secondary OpsCenter service to take over, which guarantees
continuously available management operations on DataStax Enterprise clusters
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Improved Data Protection
• Can perform all functions via REST API or visually through OpsCenter’s user interface
• Delivers smart backups that always ensure full data protection, including backups of commit logs
• Can backup data to local server or Amazon S3
• Automatically compresses backup files to save storage
• Allows for the specification of retention policies on backups
• Easily lets admins carry out full, table-level, or point-in-time restores for a cluster
• Notifies operations staff should backup or restore operations fail
• Can resume partially-completed backup and restore operations
• Supports cloning database clusters (e.g. copy a production cluster to a development cluster)
• Generates detailed backup and restore reports
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DataStax Enterprise Management Services
Company Confidential 24© 2015 DataStax, All Rights Reserved.
OpsCenter 5.1: New Levels of Operational Simplicity with Ultra High Availability
Simple Backup and Restore: Push-button simple backup/restore with new options to restore data to
and from the cloud
High Availability: New option allows a secondary OpsCenter service to take over, which guarantees
continuously available management operations on DataStax Enterprise clusters
The Database Platform for Today’s Online Applications
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Support & Training
Dev. IDE & Drivers
ProfessionalServices
Security
VisualMonitoring
ManagementServices
In-MemorySpark
Analytics
Search
Commercial
Confidence
Enterprise
Functionality
Enterprise-ready
Cassandra
Apache
Cassandra
DataStax
Enterprise
1) View Use Cases: /customers
2) Attend Monthly Customer Webinars: /webinar
3) Attend an Internet Enterprise Event: /events
1) Download DataStax Enterprise: /download
2) Get Trained: academy.datastax.com
3) Attend a Tech Day: /events
4) Review online documentation
Management IT
Technical IT
1) Download DataStax Community /cassandra
2) 10 Minute Cassandra Walk Through /trycassandra
3) Attend a Meet Up /join-your-local-meetup
4) Review online documentation
Community
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On planetcassandra.org
On datastax.com
On datastax.com
Getting Started
Q&AAdditional Resources
www.datastax.com
www.datastax.com/docs
www.datastax.com/resources
www.datastax.com/training
www.datastax.com/events
www.planetcassandra.org
Thank you!