Webinar: Comparing DataStax Enterprise with Open Source Apache Cassandra

Andrew Lampitt
Sr. Director, Product Marketing
DataStax Enterprise
vs. Open Source Apache Cassandra
Differentiation in features, performance, and services

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dates are tentative and are subject to change.

The DataStax differentiation
Guaranteeing “right-now” data management for the enterprise
• DSE Core: database features
• Factors better performance
• More powerful features: security, flexible deployment, etc.
• Ease-of-use: operations management and development
• Unified data platform: beyond database
• Mixed workloads: search, operational analytics
• Consistent security model across platform
• DSE Graph
• World-class services: by the experts
• Customer support, professional services, training
• DataStax Managed Cloud: easy operations
• Looking ahead
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The three eras of DataStax
Era 1 (2010 — 2013)
DataStax made Apache Cassandra™
a viable open-source project
Era 2 (2013 — 2016)
DataStax drove the worldwide growth
of Apache Cassandra and its successful community
Era 3 (2016 — present)
DataStax delivers market-leading
data management with DataStax Enterprise
In Eras 1 & 2, we built (most of) Apache Cassandra
for the community.

Now, in Era 3, you come first
85% of commits from DataStax
❑ DSE Graph
❑ Advanced Replication
❑ Tiered Storage
❑ Advanced Security
❑ Live Indexing
DSE 5.0
Adding features and performance
not in Apache Cassandra,
for example:
DSE 5.1
❑ Better performance:
- 2x compaction throughput
- 3x operational analytics
❑ Row-level access control
for Multi-tenant SaaS apps
❑ Search in Graph
❑ Studio for CQL and Graph
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Apache
Cassandra™
DSE Standard DSE Max
Data Platform
Best distribution of Apache Cassandra™ ✓ ✓
Greater performance vs. open source ✓ ✓
Advanced Security ✓ ✓
Auto. Management Services ✓ ✓
Advanced Replication ✓ ✓
Tiered Storage ✓ ✓
Multi-Instance ✓ ✓
In-Memory ✓
Search ✓
Analytics ✓
Graph Option
Operational Management and Development Environments
DataStax OpsCenter ✓ ✓
DataStax Studio ✓ ✓
DataStax subscriptions (1 of 2)
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DSE MAX
For teams that want to be
ready for anything, a
complete data platform
DSE STANDARD
For teams that need a
solution easy to build and
effortless to scale

DataStax subscriptions (2 of 2)
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DSE MAX
For teams that want to be
ready for anything, a
complete data platform
DSE STANDARD
For teams that need a
solution easy to build and
effortless to scale
Apache
Cassandra™
DSE Standard DSE Max
Professional support and services
24x7x365 support ✓ ✓
Platform certification ✓ ✓
Certified service packs ✓ ✓
Hot fixes and bug escalation ✓ ✓
Free software deployments for non-
production environments
✓ ✓
Health checks/Performance reviews ✓ ✓

Can you afford open source?
• Increased learning curve
• From development to operations
• Time and effort
• To hunt down answers from the community
• Dependency on open source community
• No SLAs for root cause analysis and bug
fixing impacting critical production systems
• Continuously required skillset
• Cassandra expert(s) on staff – forever
• Opportunity cost
• De-focus from your core competency
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DataStax built most of Apache Cassandra.
Our experts build, support, and deliver solutions
at scale for the world’s most innovative
companies. So you can focus on your business.
• No support for critical production systems
• Can you patch source code in emergencies?
• Will the community prioritize your needs?
• Can you find experts quickly for critical projects?
• None of the latest DSE functionality
• Features, performance, and security
• Distraction from your core business
• Focus, efforts, and budget
What you are committing to Risks on your commitment

Our commitment to you
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DataStax will continue to provide comprehensive testing, hotfixes for production issues,
backward compatibility etc. for the enterprise
Stability
Our customers will continue to drive growth in requirements for distributed scale,
responsiveness, hybrid environments, end-to-end security and operations management.Lower Risk
DataStax Enterprise (DSE) will not be constrained by the limits of Apache CassandraTM
The DSE roadmap provides the value-added capabilities needed by our customers.
Differentiation will continue to increase in areas of performance, ease-of-use, and
breadth of platform.
Functional
Innovation
DataStax will continue to provide across the board development, training,
documentation, services & support to deliver success for our customers.
Customer
Success

• Multi-model including
key value, tabular,
JSON, and graph
• Mixed workloads
o Transactional
o Search
o Analytics
• Developer tooling
• Administration and
monitoring
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A unified platform
“DSE allows us to focus on delivering an exceptional
experience and value, while benefiting from DataStax’s
commitment to platform innovation.”
So you can focus on your business.
Only in DSE:

● Faster feature releases
● Advanced security
o External authentication
o Transparent data encryption
o Data auditing
o Row-level access control
for multi-tenant SaaS apps
o Consistent security
posturing across platform
● QA at scale (1,000 nodes)
● Expert customer support
-- including back porting of bug
fixes for you
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Enterprise-ready
"The fact that DataStax integrated these core elements
with the scalability and availability of Apache Cassandra,
security capabilities, and 24x7 support was enormous …”
Faster innovation.
NoSQL no longer means “no security.”
And battle-tested at scale.
Only in DSE:

• Automate what no one
likes to worry about –
backups, repairs
• REST API to work in
your world
• Instantly manage your
cluster, scaling up or
down at a moment’s
notice
• Monitor your cluster
and follow best
practices, ensuring a
secure environment
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OpsCenter
"OpsCenter is a great visualization tool... it allows us to
act on things before they become a problem."
Visual deployment management
Only with DSE:

• Compaction
• Operational analytics
o Continuous paging
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(Lower is better; results may vary)
Factors better performance
Only in DSE:
2x throughput
3x operational analytics

CQL and Graph
in one developer environment
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DataStax Studio
• CQL
o Visually create, execute, display,
and profile CQL
o Create and tune complex queries
o Schema viewer
o Search index management
• Gremlin
o Auto-completion, result set
visualization, execution
management, and much more.
Only with DSE:

Training
“Perfect - very comprehensive and structured training”
Customer Support
“World-Class Support From Initiation To Implementation”
- Gartner peer insights
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Expert services
● Customer Support
o The world’s largest and
most innovative
deployments rely on DataStax
● Training
o DataStax Academy:
Comprehensive courses
online or on site
● Professional services
o Only DSE customers have
access to the world’s best
experts at deploying
Apache Cassandra
and DataStax Enterprise
“We leveraged the expertise of DataStax to deploy our new
social media platform, and were able to complete the
project without worrying about scale or distribution…”
Professional Services
Only with DSE:

DataStax Managed Cloud
• DSE on AWS with Managed Provisioning
and Scaling by DataStax
• 24x7x365 Coverage,
Lights-Out Management
• System Configuration and Tuning to
Meet Customer Specific Requirements
• Architecture Advisory Services, Guidance
and Best Practices
A Fully Managed, Secure Architecture

DSE Core
• Features
• Performance
• Ease-of-use
v6 continues to extend significant differentiation
DSE Core is Apache Cassandra features plus additional commercial-only database capabilities
added including advanced security, tiered storage, row-level access control, and more.

From validation to momentum.
400+
Employees
$190M
Funding
500+
Customers
Founded in April 2010
Santa Clara • San Francisco • Austin •
London • Paris • Berlin • Tokyo • Sydney
(Series E – Sept. 2014) 30% +
2016 World’s Best
100 Cloud Companies
Ranked #1 in multiple operational
database categories

DataStax’s evolution in context
We solve “right-now” for customers.

We are the power
behind the moment.

Thank you

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