DataStax enables developers to create microservices applications that query Apache Cassandra™ while eliminating the need for native drivers
DataStax announced general availability of the open source gRPC API for Astra DB, the company’s serverless cloud database built on Apache Cassandra – the NoSQL database standard. With the gRPC API developers can easily create highly performant microservices applications to query Cassandra. The API is available alongside JSON, REST, and GraphQL APIs in the Stargate open source data gateway, built to make Cassandra developer-ready for interacting with data at scale.
“With Stargate, it’s never been easier to leverage the power of Apache Cassandra for microservices-based applications with ultimate scalability and performance”
According to IDC, by 2024, net-new production-grade cloud-native apps will increase to 70 percent of all apps because of the adoption of technologies such as microservices, containers, dynamic orchestration, and DevOps.1 The scalability and maintainability of microservices is dampened when multiple languages are used, and HTTP APIs and native database drivers introduce latency and add networking overhead. DataStax leveraged the open source Remote Procedure Call (gRPC) framework created by Google to deliver the first gRPC API for Apache Cassandra, boosting performance and making it easier to support multilingual microservices on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
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“With Stargate, it’s never been easier to leverage the power of Apache Cassandra for microservices-based applications with ultimate scalability and performance,” said Ed Anuff, chief product officer, DataStax. “Our gRPC API modernizes microservices communication to efficiently connect services across multiple clouds for increased application performance and agility. Through our open stack and Stargate APIs, DataStax is committed to helping developers and enterprises easily connect all their real-time data.”
For application developers working in cloud native environments, gRPC clients leverage advanced features of HTTP/2 for improved performance while supporting a cloud native design pattern that is not supported by native drivers.
Key Benefits
- Increase performance of microservices applications in cloud native environments
- DataStax supported clients for Go, Rust, Node.js and Java
- Leverage multilingual microservices while eliminating native drivers
- Use advanced features of HTTP/2 across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
The gRPC API is available as a standard feature of Stargate API Gateway within Astra DB, the only Cassandra-based database-as-a-service (DBaaS) that supports gRPC multi-cloud, and as an open source download for Apache Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise users at Stargate.io.
With the new gRPC API for Cassandra, new capabilities in open source GraphQL API and its new change data capture (CDC) for Cassandra, DataStax is extending its commitment to helping developers and enterprises connect all their real-time data – the data that runs the business.
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