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Astra DB: Designing a Serverless Cloud-Native DBaaS | DataStax
Astra DB is a globally distributed, serverless, multi-model database service built by DataStax to satisfy the needs of users on their cloud provider of choice.

This white paper presents a novel microservices-based, cloud-native architecture that integrates natively with Kubernetes to bring true, safe, stateful workloads to the cloud-native age. Learn how the design of Astra DB enables fine-grained, elastic scalability of individual components to meet the capacity demands of modern application workloads.
Discover some of the major innovations in Astra DB, including its:
- Novel microservices-based, cloud-native architecture
- Multi-tenancy and fault isolation approach
- Smart auto scaling design