Apache Cassandra Consulting and Support

Consulting on your big data strategy

Our consultants will bring in deep knowledge of Apache Cassandra to help you define your big data strategy. With our help, you’ll be fully capable of:

• Realizing all Cassandra’s opportunities with regard to your specific project.
• Identifying all possible risks and pitfalls and solving or, where possible, preventing problems connected with them.
• Choosing additional technologies for your solution to accompany Cassandra and help it reveal its potential to the fullest.

Consulting on your big data architecture

Our team can help you get a better and deeper understanding of the database as an integral component of your solution’s architecture. To do that, we will share our expertise and advise you on the ways to answer a variety of your architecture-related questions, for instance:

• How many data centers and nodes will you need?
• How should you replicate your data?
• What compaction and compression strategies should you choose?
• What do you need to do to secure your data without affecting the solution’s performance?

Cassandra data modeling

To safeguard Cassandra’s high working speeds, our consultants will turn to best practices in Cassandra’s data modeling. They will design your model from scratch, keeping the number of data reads at minimum and spreading data evenly across the cluster. Alternatively, our specialists can make adjustments and improvements to the data model of an already existing solution.

Cassandra fine-tuning

To fine-tune your Cassandra and make it easily meet your requirements and expectations, our consultants will inspect your solution to find bottlenecks and remove them. Or, if it’s not possible for some technical reason, our specialists will increase their throughput capacity to maximum. For the purpose of a successful Cassandra performance tuning, we can:

• Adjust the data model to work better with your queries.
• Reconsider your compression and compaction strategies.
• Optimize your CQL-queries.
• Tune bloom filters’ settings and so on.

Cassandra troubleshooting

You may encounter overdue or even non-completed tasks because of Cassandra’s performance fluctuations, occasional errors and the like. Or you may be unhappy with your high computing power costs and network overload. Regardless of these problems’ nature, our Cassandra consultants will target problematic areas and find solutions to the underlying issues.

Sensor data

Cassandra is a good fit for storing sensor data, which makes it cover a lot of industry-related ground: healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, real estate and so on. Our specialists will design Cassandra’s data model to enable efficient key-based data lookups. And, besides that, they will ensure that Cassandra’s writes are incredibly cheap and lightning-quick to make Cassandra work well with huge amounts of incoming data. This is exactly what sensor data requires.

Messaging systems

Messaging systems (instant messaging, collaboration apps an so on) require new messages to be written easily and quickly to the database. And that’s what Cassandra does perfectly. Besides, such solutions usually don’t require lots of updates, which is good because it is one of Cassandra’s weak spots. Also, Cassandra’s compaction may suit such systems’ needs: our specialists can tune the solution to periodically delete old irrelevant data. And if you want to set up a popular feature for messages to only be available within a limited time, we can give every message a “time to live” and it will be erased automatically. This will reduce costs of storing and deleting data.

Ecommerce and entertainment websites

Cassandra’s write efficiency, read speed and data model’s design make the database suited for user activity tracking on ecommerce and entertainment websites. We can set up all needed Cassandra features to store data on the products a visitor looked through, the movies they watched or the games they played. And on top of that, we can integrate Cassandra with an analytical tool of your choice to define visitors’ preferences on-the-fly and recommend them products/movies/books/articles they may like.

Big data solutions for banks

With Cassandra, banks can not only get a 360-degree customer view but also expand the list of their security features with, say, fraud detection. ScienceSoft can safeguard Cassandra’s high availability, which will enable banks to be sure that their security features are always up and running. We can properly tune Cassandra’s read performance to make data about a particular user easily extractable for analysis. And besides that, our consultants can set up Cassandra’s seamless integration with Apache Spark to analyze potential fraud in real time.