Evaluating Your Cassandra Cluster for Migration to Astra DB

Moving self-managed, enterprise databases to a managed service in the cloud has many benefits, including higher availability, autoscaling, and greatly reduced operational overhead. But the migration process is seldom straightforward.

This whitepaper takes a look at the potential challenges that can surface during a migration from a self-managed Apache Cassandra® database cluster to the Astra DB managed service. It provides actionable steps for discovering these obstacles, and expresses an opinionated view on the best way to proceed.