Enterprises need multiple things to run their business successfully. One of the critical things is the data store they use for storing the data that applications and different analytics platforms will use. To ensure that business is healthy, companies need reliable databases, and according to their tech budget and expertise, they choose databases.
While working and consulting with an enterprise, they ran Cassandra to support their NoSQL data-store operations. Cassandra was working really well but now when the company grew, they needed help to support the NoSQL store. They experienced cascading latencies by Cassandra Hot’s partition as the traffic increased with the events and campaigns. Also, garbage collection was becoming the bottleneck because it heavily impacted the database performance, resulting in poor application performance. Also, one more significant reason was that they wanted to avoid managing the database and were looking for an expert company that could manage it for them without significant application changes.
Why ScyllaDB?
While exploring the different solutions for the database, ScyllaDB caught our attention. We were curious about the solution and did multiple proofs of concept on the ScyllaDB. We finally decided this would be the right choice for our environment and scale. A few primary reasons for our decision were:
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