Astra Features
5 Gig Free Tier
Launch a database in the cloud with a few clicks, no credit card required.
Global Scale
Put your data where you need it without compromising performance, availability or accessibility.
Cloud-Native
Powered by our open-source Kubernetes Operator for Cassandra.
Enterprise Security
Peer cloud VPC to an Astra cluster to maintain private communication between cloud-based apps and Astra.
No Operations
Eliminate the overhead to install, operate, and scale Cassandra.
Zero Lock-in
Deploy on AWS or GCP and keep compatibility with open-source Cassandra.
Easy Migrations
No cost migration and sizing assistance.
Relational Indexes
Storage Attached Indexing (SAI) lets you query tables using any columns.
Astra Serverless Beta
A fully managed Apache Cassandra™ DBaaS that scales effortlessly and affordably
Learn More5 Gig Free Tier
Explore Astra and learn Cassandra using your free-tier, free forever database.
Launch a sample app within minutes and see how easy it is to write scalable applications.
Global Scale
Put your data where you need it without compromising performance, availability or accessibility
- Data replication across multiple data centers, availability zones, and multi-region
- Scale-up to petabytes of data without impacting performance
- The Astra service is resilient and highly available to minimize both downtime and the need for site-reliability engineering
Astra, like Cassandra, enables reads and writes to multiple cloud regions. Some say it’s the worldliest database around.
We started evaluating HBase, MongoDB and Cassandra. In benchmarks, Cassandra was just beating the crap out of every other database we looked at. Plus, there were other reasons - such as active-active, which is why we went with Cassandra.
Hatinder Chawla
Manager, Architecture and Engineering, Cisco
Enterprise Security
Astra is built securely from the ground up
- Databases are isolated from each other at the infrastructure level, and on the free tier, via Kubernetes namespaces
- All data at rest is encrypted
- Standardized, secure tooling like Key Management Service (KMS) used for key management
- The database layer has sophisticated authentication and authorization mechanisms to provide enterprises with easier management and control with assigning user access to the database
- Client connections use two-way certificate validation for VPN-level security from client to database
- Astra also offers private-connectivity options like VPC peering for organizations that need it
To learn more about Astra Security read our DataStax Astra Architecture and Security Overview Whitepaper.
No Operations
Eliminate the overhead to install, operate, and scale Cassandra
- Eliminate the overhead to install, maintain, operate, and scale Cassandra
- Snapshot backups every four hours
- Fully managed database and OS updates and upgrades
- IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) failures handled gracefully by K8s operator to keep databases healthy
- Eliminate anti-entropy repair procedures
- SRE team standing by to step in when automation cannot resolve an issue
Zero Lock-In
Keep data sovereignty, avoid cloud lock-in and keep compatibility with open source Cassandra
Deploy on AWS, GCP or Azure and keep compatibility with open-source Cassandra
Bulk data loading and integrated stream processing ensure data portability
API compatibility and consistent developer tools with Apache Cassandra
Open Source Software Astra Projects
Management Sidecar
The Management API is a sidecar service layer that attempts to build a well supported set of operational actions on Cassandra® nodes that can be administered centrally
View on GithubMetrics Collector
Metric Collector for Apache Cassandra (MCAC) aggregates metrics along with diagnostic events to facilitate problem resolution and remediation
View on GithubConfiguration Builder
The cass-config-builder can be consumed as either a jar artifact or inside of a Docker image
View on GithubEasy Migrations
Thinking about migrating an existing Cassandra app to Astra? Check out our pricing and plans.
When you’re ready, we’ll live migrate your app to Astra using Cloud Gate, our Live Migration Proxy.
Relational Indexes
Unlock new levels of indexing capabilities that were never before possible in Apache Cassandra with Storage Attached Indexing (SAI). A highly scalable, globally-distributed index for Cassandra, now available on Astra.
Forget denormalizing! Create any table you want. Write to just that table, and query it any way you want. Queries are no longer restricted by your primary key!
Once you create your table, just use CREATE CUSTOM INDEX ... USING 'StorageAttachedIndex' DDL commands to define one or more SAI indexes on the table.
Once the index has been created, it is simply a matter of querying the table and specifying the SAI-indexed columns.
