Cassandra 2.0.9 to Amazon Keyspaces Migration using DSBULK Utility
These days, most of the organizations are trying to move out from their on-premise servers to the cloud. For this kind of migration, people mainly go for the lift and shift approach. Even though we moved the application and databases to the cloud, the architecture map and your team’s responsibilities won’t change. This means you are not getting full benefits out of the cloud migration. This is why major cloud vendors introduced fully-managed services to make our life easier. If we are talking about this from the AWS perspective, For relational databases have RDS, non-relational databases have Document DB, Amazon Keyspaces, etc and for caching they have Amazon ElastiCache. What are the advantages of the fully-managed database over the self-managed database?
- Patching and minor upgrades without downtime.
- Automated backups and failover.
- High availability and durability.
- Can get Support from cloud vendors quickly.
In this article, my main motivation is to cover the topic of Migrating from Cassandra to Amazon Keyspaces, the related issues with this migration, and how we can overcome those issues. As am aware, the only approach to do this migration is using the DSBULK utility provided by DataStax. This migration involves several…
