Case Study: Mahalo

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“With the Cassandra conversion completed and running smoothly, we’re now free to focus on our primary mission, knowing that we’ll be able to deliver the excellent responsiveness and capabilities that our user community has come to expect.” - Jacob Burch, Mahalo.com

Company: Mahalo.com

Overview: Enterprises struggling with the inherent performance and scalability limitations of relational databases are increasingly turning to modern distributed information management technologies such as Cassandra. Mahalo.com was able to easily upgrade their original relational database management system and employ Cassandra as a key component of a speedy, cost-effective and highly scalable architecture.

In operation since 2007, Mahalo.com is dedicated to helping people easily find the information and resources they can trust. This mission resonates with users: in just a few years, Mahalo.com has grown to be a top 200 website with 12 million visitors per month.

Challenge: Untenable RDBMS-driven performance and application functionality roadblocks

Solution: With a minimal amount of effort, Mahalo.com used Cassandra to build a data infrastructure that will support future throughput and scalability requirements while helping to control costs