Apache Cassandra · DataStax Enterprise

Cassandra with Confidence

Giga Spark Technologies offers a wide range of consulting services designed to help you accelerate your adoption of Apache and DSE Cassandra and other open source technologies. Our team is comprised of experienced professionals with thorough knowledge that can deliver tailor made solutions.

Cassandra capabilities

Our Skills and Experience

We Specialize in Offering

Design and Architect the solutions using Cassandra.
Capacity planning of clusters.
Choosing optimal hardware and hardware settings.
Defining data models.
Automated infrastructure for all cluster maintenance activities.
Setting up monitoring using various tools.
Implement backup and restore procedures.
Authentication using LDAP/AD/Kerberos.
Transport level encryption using SSL.
Data at rest encryption using DSE. TDE(Transparent data encryption)
Enabling audit.
Setting up clusters on various clouds and on-premises.
Creating standard operating procedures.
Defining the BEST practices.
Enabling SOLR on Cassandra data.
SPARK solutions on Cassandra data.
Cluster review and health check reports.
JVM Tuning.

Our Blogs

Enabling security using LDAP
SSL Implementation
Different ways of Data migration and Data restoration
Audit logging setup
Enabling Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and its limitations
Changing compaction strategy one node at a time using JMX
Point in time recovery using commit log backups
Infrastructure scripts using ANSIBLE
Data modeling best practices
Analyzing GC logs using GCEasy
Migration from DSE to Apache Cassandra
Migrating from Apache Cassandra to DSE Cassandra
Merging two Cassandra Production Clusters
Why 31GB Heap has double the performance to 32GB Heap
Everything about Reaper

Stack & toolchain

Our Expertise

Databases: Apache Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise, MySQL, CouchDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Azure.
Operating systems: Solaris, RHEL, CentOS, SuSE, Ubuntu, Linux, Windows.
Designing: Erwin, ERStudio, Designer 6i.

Storage and networking: GDNSD, Apache TraicServer, GlusterFS, HAProxy, NginX, Ceph.
Search engines: Apache Lucene, Apache Solr.
Big Data operations: Apache Hadoop, Disco (MapReduce), TokuMX, Scality, Apache Spark.

Tools: Jira, Git, SVN, Mercurial, HipHop, Tomcat, Jmeter, Grinder, Cassandra Stress, Cassandra Cluster Manager.
Configuration management & automation: Chef, Puppet, OpenStack, Amazon Web Services, Ansible.
Monitoring: Cassandra metrics, Ops Center, Grafana, Nagios.

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