DATASTAX CUSTOMER CASE STUDY eBay’s shopping experience is powered by the customer’s ability to instantly search for whatever they need, which requires the site to comb through massive amounts of data for every search entry. Intuitively supporting a customer base this large requires a comprehensive, always-on, distributed database that allows for innovative inventory management at scale. To accommodate eBay’s explosive data growth (its data centers perform billions of reads and writes each day) and the increasing demand to process data at blistering speeds, eBay needed a solution that did not have the scalability issues and transactional constraints associated with relational databases. The company also needed to perform rapid analysis on a broad assortment of the structured and unstr

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