Kroger Omni-Channel Retail Experience DataStax Enterprise Architecture Review

Kroger is an American retail company operating thousands of supermarkets and multi-department stores throughout the United States.

Kroger deployed DataStax Enterprise Cassandra to house the large real-time data sets behind its omni-channel customer retail experience applications.

DataStax brought RhinoSource into Kroger to review the existing DataStax Enterprise clusters and, separately, to assess a new cluster being readied for go-live. RhinoSource conducted detailed analysis to confirm that performance settings, security, encryption and authentication methods were all in line with best practices before that launch.

RhinoSource made recommendations to improve overall DataStax cluster operations, monitoring, security, performance and reliability, and recommended approaches for leveraging VMWare to modernize existing projects and bring new ones online faster.

Finally, RhinoSource helped identify DataStax Enterprise Spark Analytics use cases and recommended the architectural changes that maximize Spark workload performance while minimizing its impact on production Cassandra workloads — the contention problem that otherwise surfaces as a slow storefront.