DataStax
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| Private | |
| Industry | Database Technologies |
| Genre | Column-oriented DBMS |
| Founded | April 2010, Texas, USA. |
| Founder |
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| Headquarters | Santa Clara, CA, United States |
Key people |
Billy Bosworth (CEO)[1] Jonathan Ellis (Co-Founder) Matt Pfeil (Co-Founder) |
Number of employees | 400+[1] |
| Website | DataStax.com |
DataStax, Inc. is a software company that develops and provides support for a commercial edition of the Apache Cassandra database, a NoSQL database. It competes with legacy database products from Oracle.[1]
Products
DataStax sells and provides support for a commercial version of the open-source Apache Cassandra project, called DataStax Enterprise (DSE), that has extensions for analytics and search functions using Apache Spark[2] and Apache Solr respectively.[3]Language bindings provided with DSE include Java, Node.js, .NET, Python, Ruby, and C/C++.[4] The DSE provide OpsCenter, a management interface for Cassandra monitoring and configuration.[5]
DataStax employees contribute to the open-source Cassandra project.[6][7] The company's Community Edition is a free distribution of Apache Cassandra along with a utility named OpsCenter.[8][9]
History
Cassandra was initially developed internally at Facebook, to handle large data sets across multiple servers.[7] Facebook handles 50 billion photos from its user base.[10] Cassandra was released as an Apache open source project in 2008.
The company's two founders, Jonathan Ellis and Matt Pfeil, left Rackspace in 2010 to found DataStax (original name: Riptano).[11][12] DataStax Enterprise 1.0 was released in October 2011. The company moved to Santa Clara, CA in 2014.[13] As of September 2014, the company was valued at $830 million.[1]
By April 2015, the company had 400 employees[1] and a few offices overseas. Its customers included one-third of the Fortune 100.[1] Its largest competition came from the legacy database products of Oracle, along with competition from two database startup companies, MongoDB and Couchbase.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Clancy, Heather (14 April 2015). "DataStax just scored a big partnership with HP. Here's why.". Fortune. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
- ↑ Henschen, Doug. "DataStax Brings Spark To Cassandra - InformationWeek". InformationWeek. Information Week. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
- ↑ Bridgewater, Adrian. "DataStax Manages Big Data Trio: Real-Time, Analytic, and Search". Dr. Dobb's. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
- ↑ "Apache Cassandra Client Drivers". Planet Cassandra. 30 March 2016. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
- ↑ Bradberry, Russell; Lubow, Eric (2013). Practical Cassandra: A Developer's Approach. Pearson Education. pp. 151–152. ISBN 9780321933942. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
- ↑ http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Committers Apache Cassandra Wiki
- 1 2 Joab Jackson, IDG News Service (3 January 2013). "Cassandra 1.2 database better geared for 'fat servers'". InfoWorld. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
Traditionally, 'Cassandra's sweet spot has been in scaling out across a lot of relatively lightweight machines,' said Jonathan Ellis, Apache project chair of Cassandra and a co-founder of DataStax, which offers commercial support for the software.
- ↑ Taft, Darryl K. "Apache Cassandra-Based DataStax Community Edition 1.2 Launches". eWeek. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
- ↑ Brust, Andrew. "DataStax 1.2 on Windows: A guided tour - Page 9". ZDNet. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
- ↑ "Scaling Facebook to 500 Million Users and Beyond". Facebook.com. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
- ↑ Babcock, Charles. "Riptano Offers Cassandra Commercial Support - InformationWeek". InformationWeek. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
- ↑ Shimel, Alan (15 March 2011). "DataStax Wants To Make Cassandra The Best NoSQL Of Them All". Network World. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
- ↑ Bosworth, Billy. "Out with the old… in with the new | DataStax". www.datastax.com. Retrieved 10 October 2016.