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

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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

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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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!