Kroger Omni-Channel Retail Experience DataStax Enterprise Architecture Review

Kroger (NYSE: KR) is an American retail company that operates thousands of supermarkets and multi-department stores throughout the United States.

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

DataStax brought RhinoSource into Kroger to review their existing DataStax Enterprise clusters as well as to assess a new DataStax cluster that was being readied for go-live. RhinoSource conducted detailed analysis to ensure that performance settings, security, encryption and authentication methods were in line with best practices.

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

Finally, RhinoSource helped to identify DataStax Enterprise Spark Analytics use cases and recommended architectural changes to maximize the performance of Spark workloads while minimizing their impacts on production Cassandra workload performance.