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Six Plus Years (and counting) with No Downtime? Seriously?

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Author
Robin Schumacher
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738
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6
Language
English
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Summary

Over six years of working at DataStax, it has been observed that customers using DataStax Enterprise (DSE) and Apache Cassandraâ„¢ have experienced zero downtime on their data platform. This is a significant achievement considering the complexities involved in maintaining such platforms. The key to this success lies in DSE's masterless architecture, which allows users to read and write data to any node in a cluster and ensures automatic replication and synchronization of data across multiple locations. Unlike other major database vendors that use master-slave or multi-master architectures, DataStax/Cassandra's unique design enables true constant uptime for distributed applications. This has been demonstrated by customers like Walmart, eBay, Netflix, who have not experienced any downtime in their data layer despite facing hiccups and outages in other areas of their infrastructure.

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