While you can run DataStax Enterprise (DSE) both on premises and in the cloud, Astra DB allows you to create databases in minutes, with reduced complexity, fewer operational concerns, and an approachable entry point for developing your applications. Astra DB is a true database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offering that provides simplified cluster management with flexible pricing. DSE also includes Advanced Workloads (DSE Search, Analytics, and Graph), which are not available in Astra DB.

Apache Cassandra version 3.11 is compatible with Astra DB databases.

Astra DB supports creating databases on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

Recent Resources includes the five most recent databases and streaming tenants resources used by someone in your organization.

Each of the supported DSE and Apache Cassandra drivers is compatible. Choose the DataStax driver for your preferred language and configure it to connect to your Astra DB database. See Connecting to Astra DB databases using DataStax drivers.

Astra DB handles billing through an integration with Stripe, and displays all related billing information on the Billing Summary page. Enter a credit card number and associated billing information to begin creating Astra DB databases. See Billing for more information.

You are prompted to add a credit card when your credit limit is running low. You also receive this notification by email and in Astra Portal.

If your application uses all $25 in credit, the database temporarily pauses until you add a credit card to re-start the database. Alternatively, you can wait until the next month for the $25 credit to reload.

Unused credits do not rollover. A $25 credit is added to your organization on the 1st of every month.

You can get your organization ID from any Astra Portal URL:

astra.datastax.com/ORGANIZATION_ID

There are several ways to get your database IDs in the Astra Portal:

To get a database’s region ID:

In the Astra Portal, go to Databases, click your Astra DB Classic database, and then click CQL Console.

You must create keyspaces in the Astra Portal.

We do not allow users to delete the last keyspace to avoid accidental deletion of data. This is the error you will see in the CQL shell:

To avoid any storage costs associated with the keyspace, you can drop tables from the keyspace by running:

There is no practical limit to the number of bytes an Astra DB database can store.

A permission error occurs for two reasons.

The first reason is that Astra places certain limitations on the user with Astra DB database guardrails and limits.

The second reason is that you don’t have the appropriate permissions on your account. Learn more information about user permissions.

This is the error: Invalid Request: Error from server: code=2200 [Invalid query] message="table TABLE_NAME does not exist"

When you upload a table through Astra Portal, any table name, keyspace name, or column name with case-sensitive characters can be accessed by using double quotes.

For example, see the select statement below:

Check the YouTube description for the Workshop you attended. Use the Discord group or the YouTube chat to ask questions.

Additional links:

You can find sample projects in the DataStax-Examples Github Repository.

Open your Astra Portal, select the Help Center. A panel for Health Center appears on the right side of the screen.

On the bottom right hand corner, select Submit a Ticket. You are redirected to the DataStax Support portal.

Select Submit a Request at the top. You must complete the fields marked with an asterisk. When finished, select Create.

For more, see Submit a support ticket.

No, you cannot alter the keyspace name. You can create an entire new keyspace with a different name.

If the file is over 40 MB, you can upload data with our DSBulk Loader. For more, see how to get started with DSBulk Loader.

No, Astra is a zero-operations database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offering. Some operational Cassandra tools are not relevant. We offer access to a limited set of database metrics. You can view them in the Health tab in Astra Portal.

For more, see the Astra DB database guardrails and limits.

If you are using strict security settings in your web browser, you might not see everything in Astra Portal, such as messages and certainly functionalities that simplify your experience.

Because security is a priority for all modern cloud applications, DataStax has implemented several protocols to ensure security remains a priority.

DataStax Astra DB is secured by default, including encryption over the wire and at rest. DataStax Astra DB instances are SOC2 Type2-compliant.

For details on Astra DB security, check out the Astra DB Security Whitepaper.

Astra DB supports single-region and multi-region deployments. The available classic regions vary based on the selected cloud provider and more are added over time. Within a region, data is replicated across three availability zones to ensure high availability.

VPC peering is available on only Classic C- and D-tier Astra DB databases. For more, see AWS VPC peering, GCP VPC peering, and Azure.

Pricing for DataStax Astra classic databases is based on plan, units of measure, cloud provider, and region. See Pricing for more information.

The port range is 29000-32767.

APIs such as REST and GraphQL, and the Astra DB Health dashboard: 443.

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