ScyllaDB Enterprise
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Impressive Performance and Low Latency with ScyllaDB
What do you like best about the product?
What I like most about ScyllaDB is that it simply gets on with it and does it well without having to be spoon-fed along the way. I've loaded it pretty heavily, and it's remained responsive and reliable at every turn. I didn't have to faff around too much to get things operational, which admittedly was a bit of a godsend. The inbuilt monitoring software is also a great idea—actually, it makes sense, and they are helping me solve issues before they are problems.
What do you dislike about the product?
If I had to point out something, I’d say the learning curve in the beginning was a bit steep, especially coming from other databases. Some of the documentation could be clearer or have more real-world examples. Also, certain advanced configurations can get a little tricky if you’re not already familiar with distributed systems. But once I got past that, the overall experience has been solid.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
ScyllaDB solves the performance bottlenecks I used to run into with other databases when dealing with large amounts of data and high traffic. It handles reads and writes really fast, even under pressure, which means I don’t have to worry about scaling issues as the user base grows. That saves me a ton of time on optimization and lets me focus more on building features instead of constantly tuning the backend.
ScyllaDB is strong competitor for DynamoDB.
What do you like best about the product?
ScyllaDB is very rich in the feature wise as compare to other DB like DynamoDB, etc
Huge Global existence & ease to integrate with docker support.
Huge Global existence & ease to integrate with docker support.
What do you dislike about the product?
The other feature like OLAP can also be worked and can be treated as OLAP use-cases more efficiently.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is a much cheaper go to the other wide column Database for the use-cases. It is a good candidate to reduce the Cost to Company.
A solid database choice for real-time systems
What do you like best about the product?
My best thing about ScyllaDB is the way it performs under heavy load. We've got a live analytics service we're utilizing, and ScyllaDB doesn't even break a sweat at a million hits per minute. The fact that it's C++-based means that it's more system-efficient than some NoSQL databases we've worked with in the past. We also save on hardware since we don't need as many servers to get the same results. Scaling also couldn't be simpler—horizontal scaling with ScyllaDB simply happens with no extra effort.
What do you dislike about the product?
My worst fear was how hard it is to learn. If you don't have knowledge of distributed systems or Cassandra-type databases, it's really intimidating to begin. Some of the advanced features are great, but not necessarily easy to grasp for a new user. And also, the tutorials or guides that do exist are generally based on a lot of pre-existing knowledge, so it's difficult for new users. I think more beginner tutorials or step-by-step guides would get a lot more people started.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our biggest challenge was scaling our real-time application without having to constantly think about downtime or system lag. ScyllaDB fixes this by offering a high-performance, horizontally scalable backend that can scale with our requirements. It supports high volumes of reads and writes with very minimal latency, which is precisely what we were looking for. Prior to ScyllaDB, we had slow query issues and nodes that were overloaded, but now both of these issues are largely a thing of the past. The efficiency of running on fewer resources also saves us money on cloud infrastructure, which allows us to put more money into optimizing other areas of our stack.
Good quality solution
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use and simple as long as you willing to learn it
What do you dislike about the product?
Time it take to learn as learning curve to understand how to use it right
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Simplify solution for database problems
Beyond Vector Databases: In Search of an Author to Complete Today’s Blockchain Identity Narrative
What do you like best about the product?
I like the scalability potential of this product.
What do you dislike about the product?
As of today, this product does not have vector database capabilities.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am looking at ScyllaDB to solve a large scale identity implementation
Review of ScyllaDB
What do you like best about the product?
The No SQL Approach, Caching capabilities and overall ease of access
What do you dislike about the product?
None Really much , I am still in evaluation stage
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
No SQL, Caching
ScyllaDB is a great choice for mid-range startups too
What do you like best about the product?
Support to the engineers in terms of:
Technical sessions
Complete documentation
Easy onboarding and use
Technical sessions
Complete documentation
Easy onboarding and use
What do you dislike about the product?
New in the market so not much technical support in the organisation itself.
Higher management people are not aware so they are skeptical
Higher management people are not aware so they are skeptical
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our Applications store large amount of data about India (open source data) but we need a database that can be queried faster and can handle large amount of data as we push in a better way
Best Community Ever
What do you like best about the product?
ScyllaDB has the best community! The docs are amazing, and there's so many videos online if one's ever stuck.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's absolutely nothing to be disliked about ScyllaDB.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It offers lower read and write latencies compared to traditional NoSQL databases (Cassandra) by leveraging a shard-per-core architecture, with it's reduced cluster size!
No only is resilience is speed as well.
What do you like best about the product?
We had replaced out Mysql and Postgres databases with ScyllaDb the change was easy and smooth. We had an increased speed and a reduction of crashed .
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the base SQL does not work. But there are easy to adjust and fix
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our Mysql DB did not support our use case very well so we moved to Postgres and also Won't work. We try ScyllaDB and all our performance issues were solved like a charm
From Cassandra to ScyllaDB: Why I Made the Switch
What do you like best about the product?
The most important thing about ScyllaDB is it's performance. As it's written in C++ it's super super fast as compared to cassandra which is written in java. This means no garbage collection pauses, lower CPU overhead, and significantly better resource utilization. Also, one more important thing is Shard-Per-Core Architecture, This eliminates inter-core contention and boosts throughput dramatically. It also provides better scalability over very less numbers of nodes And The best part? ScyllaDB is fully compatible with Cassandra’s APIs and query language (CQL). This means you can migrate from Cassandra to ScyllaDB with minimal effort and you get massive performance improvements.
What do you dislike about the product?
ScyllaDB is 100% compatible with Cassandra’s CQL, but the broader ecosystem—third-party tools, integrations, and community plugins—is still catching up. Some tools designed for Cassandra may not work perfectly out of the box with ScyllaDB. ScyllaDB allows you to do more with fewer nodes, which is great. But the hardware requirements can be more demanding, and if you go with the Enterprise edition or Scylla Cloud, licensing costs could be a factor for some businesses.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use ScyllaDB’s Database-as-a-Service for a project that deals with a massive amount of data points—things like measuring heartbeats and signals in real time. Handling this kind of high-frequency data storage isn’t easy, but ScyllaDB makes it seamless.
High Throughput & Low Latency: The data comes in fast, and ScyllaDB handles it without lag.
Scalability Without the Hassle: I don’t have to worry about scaling manually. As the data grows, ScyllaDB scales with it.
Zero Ops Overhead: Since I’m using it as a managed service, I don’t have to spend time tuning or maintaining the database—it just works.
High Throughput & Low Latency: The data comes in fast, and ScyllaDB handles it without lag.
Scalability Without the Hassle: I don’t have to worry about scaling manually. As the data grows, ScyllaDB scales with it.
Zero Ops Overhead: Since I’m using it as a managed service, I don’t have to spend time tuning or maintaining the database—it just works.
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