The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) is a science-driven ocean observing network that delivers real-time data from more than 800 instruments to address critical science questions regarding the world’s oceans. Apache Cassandra has served as the heart of this system, which lives on hybrid infrastructure.
“With the advent of the Internet of Things, the need to keep track of the growing number of touch points of a network is becoming increasingly challenging. Fortunately, Stevens and his team had some previous experience with Apache Cassandra…”
“We wanted to implement a distributed database that would fit with our microservices-based application strategy and that would be able to handle the availability and scalability needs of the applications too,” Jakobsen said. “Cassandra matched this model perfectly…”
METRO wanted to consolidate development and top management believed Apache Cassandra would be a good starting point. The entire platform has been migrated and teams are beginning to use native services from Google Cloud to interact with Cassandra effectively.
Locstat showed a Geotrellis generated heat map with flight data from aircraft and flight patterns around the Cape Town International Airport. Data is stored in Cassandra and then pushed through Apache Spark and visualized using Geotrellis in a Cesium spatial interface.
We hear our customers say all the time that there is no platform that can take all that data as well as Apache Cassandra. If you’re generating tons of data, you need global resiliency; you are going to pick Cassandra. When you need to scale, it does that.