HERE Technologies Global Location Metadata DataStax Architecture Review

HERE Technologies is a global provider of digital mapping, location data and related automotive services to individual consumers and businesses.

HERE uses Cassandra as a high-performance metadata index within the HERE location data platform.

DataStax brought RhinoSource onsite to HERE to do a deep dive into their DataStax Enterprise Cassandra deployment to ensure best practices were being followed and to provide recommendations of how to better manage the DataStax environments to ensure SLAs would be met.

RhinoSource reviewed HERE’s existing DataStax architecture, cluster configurations, security settings, use cases, query patterns and Cassandra data model, and made detailed tuning recommendations that would improve consistency, performance and stability to meet stringent multi-tenant high-availability and latency SLAs, as well as to prevent future problems.

RhinoSource also reviewed HERE’s cluster operational procedures and made recommendations to streamline cluster maintenance and disaster recovery procedures, including using DataStax OpsCenter for cluster monitoring, automated backup & restore and ongoing cluster repair.

Finally, RhinoSource provided guidelines to the HERE team for the use of Docker within DataStax Enterprise production and development environments, including configuration approaches to prevent data from being lost when containers are removed.