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New Cassandra to Spanner adapter simplifies Yahoo's migration journey
- It is now easier to switch from Cassandra to Spanner with the introduction of Cassandra to Spanner Proxy Adapter, an open-source tool for plug-and-play migrations of Cassandra workloads to Spanner, without any changes to the application logic.
- Spanner provides strong consistency, high availability, virtually unlimited scalability, and a familiar relational data model with support for SQL and ACID transactions for data integrity.
- The new adapter simplifies migrating a Cassandra-backed application to point to Spanner with no migration needed for application code.
- Migration from Cassandra to Spanner can be a transformative step for businesses seeking to modernize their data infrastructure, unlock new capabilities, and accelerate innovation.
- Some of the latest Spanner capabilities include enhanced multi-model capabilities, improved performance for analytical queries with Spanner Data Boost, and unique enterprise features such as geo-partitioning and dual-region configurations.
- The proxy adapter vastly simplifies migrating a Cassandra-backed application to point to Spanner.
- The new proxy adapter presents itself as a Cassandra client to the application.
- The proxy adapter supports OpenTelemetry to collect and export traces to Cloud Trace.
- Advantages of Spanner over Cassandra includes: easier operations, multi-model capabilities, better performance, stronger consistency, and scalability, and familiar relational data model.
- Download the new Cassandra to Spanner proxy adapter, and try it out on a Spanner Free Trial instance at no cost today.
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