Case Study: Openwave Messaging achieves massive scalability, lower TCO and five-9s availability with DataStax

Openwave Messaging - Customer Case Study

Openwave Messaging, maker of the Universal Messaging Suite, helps Tier 1 service providers manage massive, media‑rich messaging stores. The company faced exploding metadata and BLOB growth as users left messages on servers and added photos/videos, creating strict requirements for extreme scalability, searchable metadata, five‑nines availability, geo‑redundancy and lower TCO amid high licensing and operational costs from proprietary RDBMS solutions.

Openwave embedded DataStax Enterprise with Apache Cassandra into its product to provide a cost‑efficient, commodity‑hardware datastore with a ring-based, active‑active architecture for out‑of‑the‑box geo‑redundancy and no Cassandra license fees. The solution delivered significant per‑node IOPS savings (about 40% read and 60% write), near‑100% uptime during maintenance and incidents, and the ability to absorb rapid data growth while reducing total cost of ownership—leading to broad customer adoption and an estimated 60% of end‑user data stored in Cassandra by 2014.

Openwave Messaging

Darshan Rawal

VP of Engineering