Instaclustr for Apache Cassandra®
Instaclustr provides a fully managed service for Apache Cassandra®—SOC 2 certified and hosted in the cloud or on-prem.
We customize and optimize the configuration of your cluster so you can focus on your applications.
Managed Apache Cassandra Features
Access the scalable power of the world’s leading NoSQL database, Apache Cassandra, fully managed in the cloud or on-prem. With more than 300 million node hours of operational experience managing technologies like Cassandra, Instaclustr is the market leader for managed and hosted Cassandra. We have the deepest bench of expert Cassandra operators in the business.
By using our fully hosted and managed solution, you can stop worrying about your data infrastructure and focus on innovating throughout the rest of your application stack.
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Learn more about the fully Managed and hosted Apache Cassandra offering on the Instaclustr Platform. Achieve reliability for your data infrastructure by offloading Cassandra to us.
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Fully Managed and Hosted
Get Cassandra fully managed and hosted on all major clouds, in our cloud account or yours.
Our comprehensive management includes deployment, configuration, ongoing maintenance, upgrades, monitoring, and support. All you need to do is use Cassandra.
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24x7 Support
Receive prompt and definitive technical support and advice from our technical operations and support staff around the globe who are available to you at all times.
Instaclustr has many years of experience providing Cassandra support and has Cassandra experts and consultants on staff capable of solving any issue.
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100% Availability SLA
We offer up to 100% availability for LOCAL_QUORUM consistency operations.
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99.99% Latency SLA
We offer an SLA of 99% of read/write transactions to Instaclustr-maintained table in the cluster within specified latency threshold. Custom latency SLAs are also negotiable.
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SOC 2 Certified
Instaclustr’s solutions and processes are independently audited and certified against the Service Organization Control – Type 2 (SOC 2) standards.
These regular audits assure the security, confidentiality, integrity, privacy, and availability of your data.
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ISO 27001 and ISO 27018 Certified
Instaclustr supports ISO 27001 and ISO 27018 certifications for data protection. As internationally recognized standards for information security, ISO 27001 and ISO 27018 demonstrate Instaclustr’s ongoing commitment to safeguarding data for our customers on a global scale.
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Enterprise-Grade Security
We built and open sourced the LDAP and Kerberos authentication frameworks for Cassandra. If you need to use Cassandra in enterprise settings, Instaclustr has the leading expertise in these integrations.
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PCI-DSS and HIPAA
Easily deploy Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) compliant Cassandra on AWS by selecting this option in our console.
Contact us about HIPAA compliant options for health data.
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Built-in Monitoring
We collect and monitor hundreds of different metrics from every node we manage, so we can proactively oversee your cluster and you get easy access to the Cassandra metrics needed to effectively maintain your application.
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Terraform Provider
The Instaclustr Managed Platform includes a Terraform Provider for our managed services. It provides a flexible set of resources for provisioning and managing Instaclustr based clusters via the use of Terraform.
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100% Open Source
At Instaclustr, you are never locked-in because everything we do is open source. Apache Cassandra is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.
Additionally, the security plugins, monitoring tools, Cassandra Kafka Connector, and Cassandra Kubernetes Operator we have built for the community are all open source.
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Cassandra Connector for Kafka Connect
We have open sourced our Cassandra Connector for Kafka Connect. This allows anyone to seamlessly connect Cassandra to event-driven Kafka architectures.
This connector is bundled with our Managed Kafka Connect.
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Run In Your Cloud Provider Account or Ours
We support both Run In Your Own Account (RIYOA) and Run In Instaclustr’s Account (RIIA) for our Managed Cassandra.
On our managed platform, Cassandra can be provisioned on AWS, GCP, and Azure and is bundled up with a host of additional features ready for enterprise deployment.
Benefits of Managed Cassandra as a Service
Instaclustr makes the power of Cassandra easy to consume. We customize and optimize the configuration of your cluster so that you can receive all the benefits of our fully managed and hosted Cassandra service on AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean, IBM Cloud, or in your private data center.
- Scalability
- Low Latency
- Zero-Downtime Migrations
- Optimized Configuration
- Automated Health Checks
- Simple Provisioning
- 100% Open Source
Cassandra is proven to scale from small clusters all the way through to servicing the needs of hyperscale companies with billions of customers.
With Instaclustr, you can easily take advantage of this to scale the capacity of your cluster up as you grow, or to handle bursting workloads.
Scaling goes both ways: we’ve helped customers scale down to reduce costs.
Apache Cassandra is highly performant and delivers low-latency responses for your workloads.
We have optimized the configuration of Cassandra for our supported environments so you can efficiently achieve low latency and high throughput.
Cassandra, by design, provides continuous availability. We use that to offer our customers zero-downtime migrations.
Our Cassandra configurations are tuned for reliability, performance, and security based years of experience operating tens of millions of node hours for customers in every sector.
We offer optimal instance types and configurations on each cloud.
Cassandra performs best when you use it intelligently.
Our system monitors your schema and Cassandra usage and reports findings on a health check page to help you apply best practice usage of Cassandra.
Cassandra’s masterless cluster architecture allows it to scale massively.
With Instaclustr, you don’t have to think about any of the tricky cluster configurations. We have done all the hard work so that you can spin up a production-ready cluster within minutes.
Apache Cassandra is open source under the Apache 2.0 License and the project is governed by the Apache Software Foundation.
This provides customers with a clear roadmap and a community of no lock-in vendors, experts, and training providers for an enterprise-class software project.
