Accelerate Apache Cassandra for Extreme OLTP Workloads with GridGain

This white paper discusses how to accelerate Apache^® Cassandra^™ and improve Cassandra performance. Apache Cassandra is a popular NoSQL database that does certain things incredibly well. It can be always available, with multi-datacenter replication. It is also scalable and lets users keep their data anywhere. However, Cassandra is lacking in a few key areas – particularly speed. Because it stores data on disk, Cassandra is not fast enough for some of today’s extreme OLTP workloads. Also, Cassandra shares certain limitations of other NoSQL databases, such as limited querying capabilities. Fortunately, there is a simple way to accelerate Cassandra and make it much faster and more flexible.

This white paper will discuss the lack of in-memory capabilities in Cassandra, why in-memory solutions make sense for today’s web and cloud applications, and how combining Cassandra with Apache^® Ignite^™ creates an architecture that provides a substantial speed boost and a host of other benefits. We further discuss how the capabilities of the GridGain in-memory computing platform can extend these Apache Ignite capabilities and make them production-ready for enterprise-grade use cases.