Apache Cassandra Consulting and Support
Apache Cassandra consulting services help companies establish or upgrade highly effective solutions based on Cassandra technology to address their big data needs.
Since 2013, ScienceSoft’s experts have been performing a 360-degree range of Cassandra consulting and support services helping companies:
- Understand whether Cassandra is the right choice.
- Realize what steps will guarantee a successful Cassandra deployment.
- Optimize the existing Cassandra cluster.
- Carry out Cassandra support activities, and more.
What we can do for you
To get a better understanding of what exactly our Cassandra consulting capabilities are, check the list of our cooperation models.
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Consulting on your big data strategyOur 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:
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Consulting on your big data architectureOur 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:
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Cassandra data modelingTo 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. |
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Cassandra fine-tuningTo 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:
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Cassandra troubleshootingYou 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. |
what use cases cassandra can fit
To give you a better idea of the use cases where Cassandra fits perfectly, here we mention some of its most common applications.
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Sensor dataCassandra 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. |
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Messaging systemsMessaging 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. |
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Ecommerce and entertainment websitesCassandra’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. |
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Big data solutions for banksWith 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. |
What Challenges We Solve
Achieving both high read and write performance seems mutually exclusive
Problem. Apache Cassandra is targeted at write operations. But what about reads? Having both writes and reads perform quickly and neatly may seem unachievable, which is why you’d have to choose only one of the alternatives.
Adding more nodes doesn’t improve performance
Problem. Cassandra provides good possibilities for scaling up linearly. But in some cases, it may not be enough just to add nodes to your cluster to reach it.
Machine learning tasks critically overload Cassandra
Problem. Although Cassandra’s read is quick, intensive read workloads that your machine learning (ML) creates can cause serious performance issues for Cassandra.