BNSF Railway Co. Transportation Management DataStax Architecture Review

BNSF Railway Co. (NYSE: BNSF) is one of the largest freight railroads in North America. One of six North American Class I railroads, BNSF has 35,000 employees, 32,500 miles of track in 28 states, and nearly 8,000 locomotives. It has three transcontinental routes that provide rail connections between the western and eastern United States.

BNSF was working to improve their mission critical transportation management applications by leveraging DataStax Enterprise Cassandra and DSE Graph as the high-performance and horizontally-scalable data storage backend.

DataStax brought RhinoSource into BNSF Railway to review their DataStax Enterprise infrastructure and assess its ability to to meet BNSF’s system SLAs.

RhinoSource conducted a thorough review of BNSF’s DataStax Enterprise architecture, configurations, data model and cluster maintenance operations, investigated existing issues and made detailed recommendations across all of these areas to improve performance, scalability and reliability.

RhinoSource presented best practices to BNSF’s DataStax Enterprise system administrators and developers and helped identify DataStax DSE Graph use cases.