Serverless Apache Cassandra™
Scale database resources in and out on demand to match application requirements and traffic so that you pay only for what you use. Put the power of Cassandra in the hands of every developer without ever worrying about managing the infrastructure.
Lower Your Costs
Stop sizing for peak or average workloads! Pay as you go, based on usage or lock in savings with a commitment. Get the power of a serverless Cassandra in your budget.
Elastic
Auto scale based on traffic and application requirements. Compute and storage are separated enabling apps to scale infinitely or scale down to zero automatically.
Simplify Operations
Deploy faster by avoiding infrastructure configuration changes. Eliminate the guesswork on storage and compute needs of future 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
- Resilient and highly available, minimize downtime, eliminate Site Reliability Engineering
Astra, like Cassandra, enables reads and writes to multiple cloud regions. Some say it’s the worldliest database around.
Enterprise Security
Astra is built securely from the ground up
- All data is encrypted at rest and in motion
- Sophisticated authentication and authorization with role based access
- Client connections use two-way certificate validation for VPN-level security from client to database
- Private connectivity options like VPC peering upon request
- JSON web token(JWT) based authentication to ensure secure connectivity to your Astra database
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
- 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
- Auto scaling eliminates manual configuration changes and guesswork on database sizing
- Snapshot backups every four hours
Stargate APIs
Use powerful APIs that you already know to query DataStax Astra
- Create modern data applications without a schema using the Document API
- Eliminate drivers and reduce the need to learn CQL by exchanging data with easy-to-use APIs
- Drive adoption of cloud-native architectures using a microservices and API first approach
Zero Lock-In
Deploy on AWS, GCP and Azure and maintain compatibility with open-source Cassandra
Retain data sovereignty to meet country-specific regulations
Bulk data loading and integrated stream processing ensure data portability
API compatibility and consistent developer tools with Apache Cassandra
Freedom of Choice
Easy Migrations
Thinking about migrating an existing Cassandra app to Astra? Let us generate a personalized sizing and TCO analysis for you.
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.
