CASSANDRA TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP STUDY

This study examines the full cost and true value of Cassandra self-managed on Google Cloud (GCP) and the cost of a fully managed serverless Cassandra service. We included dedicated compute hardware (for self-managed Cassandra), cost per read and write operation (on serverless Cassandra), storage growth (each write operation adds new data) and people cost in our three-year total cost of ownership calculations. People costs take into account that certain capabilities in serverless Cassandra needed for the workload were not available in self-managed Cassandra, requiring workarounds. We used market rates and typical splits of full-time equivalent (FTE) and consulting to determine our people costs.

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