A ZEN JOURNEY TO DATABASE MANAGEMENT

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A Customer Success Story

TECHNOLOGY DRIVES THE SPEED OF BUSINESS The emergence of ‘Big Data’, the ‘Internet of Things’, and ‘Hybrid cloud’ applications are providing businesses with the capability to perform faster, smarter, and more efficiently than ever. In order to harness that competitive edge, companies need a robust foundation to manage their data and run mission-critical applications.

Big Data Internet of Things Hybrid Cloud

Faster Smarter Efficiently

World's data doubling every two years

28 billion IoT devices to be operational by 2020

50% of enterprises will use hybrid cloud by 2017

Source: IDC

THE EVOLUTION IN DATABASE MANAGEMENT

To cope with the tremendous

growth of new apps and

unstructured data (especially

in social media, gaming, and

mobile), enterprises are

changing their approach to

database management.

of all digital information today is unstructured data90%

Source: IDC

THE EVOLUTION IN DATABASE MANAGEMENTCompanies that generate vast amounts of data are now migrating to NoSQL databases as the preferred alternative to traditional relational databases, which lack the flexibility to handle massive amounts of unstructured data.

Unstructured data

NoSQL Database

WHITEPAGES – A DATABASE CASE STUDYWhitepages is the leading source for contact information in North America, providing access to 250 million personal identities for over 55 million unique visitors a month. 

For their storage needs, Whitepages relied on relational databases. As the company grew and launched new applications (like Caller ID), they were faced with the challenge of scaling their

database infrastructure while ensuring availability.

55 M250 M

WHITEPAGES’ KEY EVALUATION CRITERIAThey needed a scalable solution that would provide:

• Operational simplicity

• Ease of administration while

scaling up or down

• Database robustness if a node

crashed

• Allow for reading and writing

data in the event of a

hardware or network outage

• Capacity to expand without

losing any uptime

…AND THE WINNER IS BASHO RIAK KV!Whitepages evaluated a number of database solutions including Hbase, Postgres, Cassandra, and Basho Riak KV to meet growing data requirements.

Riak KV was the clear winner for: High availability

Scalability

Fault-tolerance

Operational simplicity

THE PERFECT SOLUTION

Riak KV was extremely easy to set up, configure, and scale up. We ran benchmarks, which all met or exceeded our expectations. It delivered on its promise of resiliency against

the loss of a node, so it was a perfect solution for us. Since deployment, Riak has been one

of the most trouble-free solutions we’ve operated at Whitepages. It just works!

With Riak KV, Whitepages was able to increase stability for its Caller ID app, achieve scaling goals at minimal cost, and reduce operational complexity.

“” – Devin Ben-Hur

Senior Architect Whitepages

WHY CUSTOMERS CHOOSE RIAKMore and more companies are migrating to Riak for its scalability and fault tolerance – the two leading IT challenges facing enterprises today.

14%Reduce IT infrastructure costs

34%

75%

32%

Meet performance and QoS SLAs

Meet scalability requirements

Support business growth expectations

45%

61%

Support higher uptime SLAs

Simplicity of operations (fault tolerance, ease of management, stability)

Multi-model approach with integration of key/value, storage and search

Other

Top Reasons Customers Select Riak

27%

14%

Multiple-choice survey conducted by TechValidate. Response percentages may not add up to 100.

BRINGING ZEN TO THE DELUGE OF DATABasho specializes in solving critical data management challenges for enterprises, with products designed to ensure the resilience and performance of key business applications:

Controls and simplifies distributed Big Data and IoT applications; provides integration with Redis,

Spark and Solr.

Distributed NoSQL database – guarantees reads and writes even in the event of hardware failures

or network partitions

Cloud storage software – more cost-effective than traditional storage; compatible with Amazon S3 and

OpenStack Swift for easy integration

FOR FAST-GROWING WEB BUSINESSESMore than 30 percent of Fortune 50 companies use Basho to power their critical web, mobile and social applications, and their public and private cloud platforms.

With a payback period averaging 12-18 months, an investment in Riak can truly be a Zen journey.

TAME BIG DATATo learn more about how Basho helped

Whitepages meet their growing data requirements, please

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