We use ScyllaDB, a NoSQL database, as a distributed system to store customer data. My last project was in telecommunications, where we stored caller information like phone numbers, names, and scam tags for a scam call protection service. We handled insert, update, and other operations since the back-end AI system needed daily data inputs. We ran scripts to add the data to ScyllaDB across two AWS regions: US East and US West. One Scylla node handled requests, synchronizing data with its peer nodes. During the POC phase, we testedperformance, read/write operations, and latency and chose the right consistency levels for ourneeds. After that, we moved to production.
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Scylla DB- Undertaker of NoSQL world
What do you like best about the product?
ScyllaDb is extensively used with 22 clusters with horizontal scaling and its does wonders even with the community edition of it. The throughput and scale of the DB is just monstrous.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some application users focussing on strong consistency are skeptic to use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has great thorughput and minimal issues running a complex cluster as compared to cassandra
Efficiency, Speed, and Reliability
What do you like best about the product?
Scylla DB is designed to be highly efficient, utilizing a close-to-the-metal design that minimizes overhead. This allows it to achieve higher performance with fewer resources compared to other NoSQL databases like Apache Cassandra. For instance, Scylla DB can reduce cluster sizes to a fraction of what Cassandra requires, leading to significant cost savings and greater return on investment
What do you dislike about the product?
Setting up ScyllaDB can be more complex compared to other databases like PostgreSQL or ClickHouse. It may not be as straightforward and could require more effort to get everything running smoothly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
ScyllaDB solves several key problems, offering high throughput and low latency
ScyllaDB review
What do you like best about the product?
ScyllaDB is highly praised for its impressive performance and scalability. It is designed to handle large volumes of data and high throughput with low latency, making it ideal for real-time applications.
What do you dislike about the product?
Its open-source version lacks some advanced features found in the enterprise version, potentially limiting functionality for some users. Additionally, while it is compatible with Cassandra, there can still be nuances and challenges during migration.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Scalability
Performance Bottlenecks
Performance Bottlenecks
NoSQL database that boost data-intensive applications
What do you like best about the product?
It extracts the full computing power of modern infrastructure. Written from the ground up in C++, ScyllaDB doesn’t suffer from Java overhead.
Data is distributed across clustered servers per CPU core and free from resource sharing operations
Data is distributed across clustered servers per CPU core and free from resource sharing operations
What do you dislike about the product?
still seems to be some features issues, but customer support is very friendly and responsive to fix it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
ScyllaDB has 2x-5x better throughput and much better latencies than Cassandra 4.0
Offers encryption and supports APIs, making it great for distributed systems
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
We are customers, not partners, and we’ve used ScyllaDB to implement an application in our company.
What is most valuable?
The best features of ScyllaDB are how it synchronizes data and its failover system. There's a unique formula to decide the number of nodes you need and the minimum required, which I find helpful. It also offers encryption and supports APIs, making it great for distributed systems
and scaling databases across different regions. While it's easy to use, having prior experience helps configure it properly. There are many configurations; if you don't understand them, you might mess up the design. So, understanding your system's needs, like whether it requires more read or write operations, is crucial for setting up the correct configuration.
What needs improvement?
We faced several challenges while integrating ScyllaDB into our AWS environment. One common issue was that a security port wasn’t opened on one node, preventingdata synchronization across clusters. We noticed the data wasn’t syncing correctly when we saw different record counts in other regions. After investigating, we found that the port was closed in one AWS region. Once we opened the port, the data synchronization across all nodes resumed as expected.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using ScyllaDB for the last three years. Initially, we worked on some POC projects and deployed one live project into production.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I've had some stability issues with ScyllaDB. For instance, if one of the nodes in a cluster goes down, sometimes the APIs or command line tools don't work to read the node's status. You might need to restart the node to bring it back up manually. It can be challenging if the node'sstate gets messed up and must be cleaned before re-adding it to the cluster. Based on stability, I'd rate it a seven out of ten. However, since we're using the free version, it might be more stable with the paid version, which could be a nine out of ten.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The paid version of ScyllaDB is not that expensive. The main advantage of the paid version is direct support from the ScyllaDB team, which can resolve issues faster—typically within a day, compared to two to three days with the free version. The paid version also offers better guidance and support, while the free version has good documentation and is more high-level. I’d rate their support team nine out of ten because of the quick responses from their community.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend ScyllaDB to others. It’s a great product built on Cassandra, with added advantages. For newcomers, it’s a distributed database with excellent scalability and performance and very low latency for all kinds of operations. Overall, I’d rate ScyllaDB an eight out of ten.
Query any data from any node as fast as possible and documentation cut out really nicely
What is our primary use case?
We have a business model that requires heavy reads for several applications all in one place. So we decided to use ScyllaDB because of the workload, to have multiple reads and writes at the same time.
What is most valuable?
I like how fast it is to query data from the ScyllaDB node! Because it can actually enable you to query any data from any node as fast as possible. And the ability to save the same copies of data across the cluster, depending on your setup as well. It's really fast.
What needs improvement?
Some of the regular commands in NoSQL do not work. It's Cassandra and ScyllaDB, so you have to make custom commands to be able to query data sometimes. It doesn't have universal compatibility. It will not allow you to make use of some functions. So, I have to do custom queries to query data.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using it for about a year now.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I experienced one or two bugs, but for the database itself, it's stable. For other features, such as the ScyllaDB Manager (the one you use to control other nodes, make backups, and check the status of other nodes), there were issues. When you deploy ScyllaDB, you also deploy another instance for the manager that helps you control dashboards and visualizations.
In the previous release, there were one or two things they had to correct, which sometimes caused unexplainable errors. You had to update to the latest version. But so far, their 3.3 version has been really stable. I updated it last week.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have about two teams right now, so the number of people would be about eight to ten.
How are customer service and support?
I have contacted the customer service and support. We are trying to move to the enterprise version because the open-source version is limited.
I think everyone is trying to adopt ScyllaDB, and it's quite new. There isn't enough information on the Internet if you don't have support. So we are considering getting support as well.
ScyllaDB is trying to build their customer base right now. They are very on point. I've just had a few interactions with them, but I strongly agree that the support is very good.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We had a business model, and we tried to do a bit of research to see which one fits best. Because of ScyllaDB's scalability and high performance, they chose it.
We are a financial institution and we have relationships with several banks and fintechs. So we have their data in-house, and we try to manipulate this data, derive analytics from it, save it in different forms, and manipulate it.
ScyllaDB helps us manage high data volumes and support rapid read and write operations. It is also very effective when we demand high throughput with low latency and the ability to scale as fast as possible.
We had existing databases such as Mongo and SQL Server, but we were having performance issues. We needed something to expand, something to have a broader reach, something to give us more robustness. So that was the reason why we went with ScyllaDB.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is pretty easy. They have their documentation cut out really nicely. It's like the more regular installations you have to do for a database cluster. But, yeah, it's pretty easy.
We use the open-source version on-premises, but we're trying to move to the enterprise version. But currently, we are deployed on-premises.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It's a bit expensive. When we were given a quotation for our setup, it was actually quite expensive as well.
What other advice do I have?
If you are not familiar with it at all and you're trying to adopt it for the first time, it's going to be incredibly difficult. It's a journey that we have passed through. Without proper support or without going for the cloud model or the enterprise model where you get support from ScyllaDB, I would advise against going for ScyllaDB.
But if you want to try it out to see what it can do, and you're okay with running without support, I'd say fine, you can use it. It's a really good database.
But if you've explained your business model and what you want to use it for, my first question would be whether you are okay with running without support. If you can't, I would ask you to just look somewhere else for something that works better for you.
Overall, I would rate it an eight out of ten, with one being bad and ten being the best. I haven't really explored the full capabilities of ScyllaDB because without support, you don't know how efficient it can be and how your usage can be.
The reason why I would say eight is because we've seen firsthand how ScyllaDB is able to manage a high workload. And because of its shared-nothing architecture, it distributes its views and processes.
NoSQL DB with High Performance - ScyllaDB
What do you like best about the product?
The best part about scyllaDB I personally Like is its Low latency and High Scalability
It is very strongly compatable with Cassendra DB
It is really easy to use
ScyllaDB has very good custom support and quick issue resolution team
It is very strongly compatable with Cassendra DB
It is really easy to use
ScyllaDB has very good custom support and quick issue resolution team
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost is a very big dislike I found about scyllaDB I find it quite costly
There is lack availability of resouces whic hinders learning
There is lack availability of resouces whic hinders learning
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Me and my team has recetly faced a lot of problems related to latency and scalability where scyllaDB act as life boat resolving all the issues
Best tool for data management
What do you like best about the product?
This is the best database that has truly helped in managing the data in our organization. I am very impressed with some of its features like its good performance in managing the large amount of data, scalability, and security. I highly recommend it to any organization for a database solution.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing like such that I did not like but it can be somewhat difficult to use for the new people using this. Apart from this it is extremely useful for managing the data.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
There is a huge amount of data on which I was working and ScyllaDB has helped me a lot on executing the queries and managing the data.
Optimal nosql solution for scalability
What do you like best about the product?
Scylladb prooved to be our one stop solution for all our database needs.It provides number of features like high scalblity,auto sharding,low latency and high performance db engine along with fine tuning of the shard level configuration. The best thing was it provide tablet monitoring where i can see query performance and output. We often use it for planty of use cases and best part is it is easy to integrate and use.
What do you dislike about the product?
At first glance enterprise edition would be difficult to grasp due to wide range of option in the scylladb monitoring dashboard. customer support & documentation can be improved. ALso all features compared to other dbs are still under development.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Scylladb being a nosql db provide alot of features with cloud native applications. Previously we used dynamodb for our use cases so the transition with scylladb was very easy having alot of functionality on top of it. Data districution with tablet is one of the key feature that enhances our database usage and personally i like it's monitoring dashboard which is quiet user-friendly and easy to use.
High Scalability and Low latency - SycllaDB
What do you like best about the product?
Best part I like about scylla DB is its ease of use and reliability. I also found it quite intuned with cassandra DP. As far as customer support is concern i found it best in market. It is also very scalable
What do you dislike about the product?
I found it heavely priced
I was not able to found good learning documents and resources which makes it quite challenging to learn
I was not able to found good learning documents and resources which makes it quite challenging to learn
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As I work in team I have huge problem of Scalability and Latency where scyllaDB helped me alot not only to me but also to my team
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