From Cassandra To Bigtable Migration At Palo Alto Networks

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Performance bottlenecks: Usually caused by compaction procedures, high latency, frequent timeouts, and excessive CPU utilization affected user experience and performance

Operational difficulty: Managing a sizable Cassandra cluster required a high level of overhead and specialized knowledge, which raised management expenses and complexity

Challenges with replication: Low-latency replication across geographically separated regions was challenging to achieve, necessitating a sophisticated mesh architecture to reduce lag

Scaling challenges: Node updates required a lot of work and downtime, and scaling Cassandra horizontally proved challenging and time-consuming

Scalability: It can easily handle Palo Alto Networks’ constantly increasing data needs because to its horizontally scalable architecture, which offers nearly unlimited scalability