Selectel: Cloud Databases

The main articles are:

• Database Management System (DMS)
• SaaS - History. Philosophy. Development drivers
• PaaS - Platform As A Service

2025: Cluster Launch for OpenSearch

Selectel launched the Selectel Cloud for OpenSearch as part of its Cloud Databases service. This service will help you quickly find, index and analyze data, events or metrics without limitations in scalability. The company announced this on April 2, 2025.

OpenSearch offers a wide range of capabilities, including support for morphological analysis and complex search queries. In addition to searching, you can analyze logs and visualize data using OpenSearch Dashboards, creating visual tables and graphs. Thanks to the open source model and flexible plugin system, OpenSearch can be adapted to various business tasks.

Within the framework of the managed service OpenSearch, clients will receive a ready-to-use OpenSearch cluster, where Selectel takes over the configuration, maintenance and optimization of infrastructure performance, scaling, replication and fault tolerance. Monitoring capabilities and free backups are also provided, and data storage meets information security requirements, including FSTEC No. 21, 152-FZ, GOST 57580, PCI DSS and other standards.

The OpenSearch cluster can also be deployed on high-performance equipment for working with enterprise-project-level DBMS. In addition, integration with other Selectel services is provided, which provides convenience and expansion of opportunities for users.

This service will help DevOp and SRE engineers, data analysts and developers work, and the Selectel team will take on the issues of supporting the IT infrastructure: configuration and maintenance, performance optimization and connection of backups, - said Alexander Grishin, Head of Storage Product Development Selectel.

2023: Managed Kafka launch

August 28, 2023 Selectel launched Managed Kafka as part of its service "." Cloudy databases This service will help customers automate the deployment of a bus data that connects all the company's information systems together.

The message broker Apache Kafka demonstrates high performance in scenarios where high throughput is required when processing in parallel large data streams from different information systems.

Managed Kafka is used to solve such problems as aggregating events or logs, delivering events for processing by several systems at once, building Event Sourcing or Event Driven systems and processing Event Stream Processing.

Managed Kafka is deployed on the basis of Selectel cloud servers. When creating a configuration, Intel Xeon processors, AMD EPYC processors, as well as local NVMe drives are available for selection. Service management is implemented through the my.selectel, API or Terraform control panel. Managed Kafka meets the requirements of the Personal Data 152-FZ, which allows you to store and process personal data up to the first (maximum) level of security.

Managed Kafka it is integrated with managed clusters Kubernetes and can be used as a solution for developing cloud-native applications on. microservice asynchronous architecture Managed Kafka also integrates with Data Analytics Virtual Machine as a component of building its own data analysis platform, dedicated servers and global router Selectel.

The launch of Managed Kafka is one example of an open source service expanding its product portfolio, taking into account user requests. On the Russian market, only a few providers provide a ready-made, fully automated Apache Kafka rental service in the cloud, which makes it popular among companies of various sizes and industries. Selectel takes over deployment and administration, as well as customization and optimization of service performance, allowing customers to focus fully on their business tasks. noted Alexander Grishin, Selectel DBaaS product manager.