Apache Cassandra Replacement Resources

ScyllaDB vs Cassandra: 5 Minute Demo

This demo explores how ScyllaDB differs from Apache Cassandra in performance, elasticity, and capabilities such as workload prioritization. It shows how ScyllaDB shards data per CPU core, avoids garba

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Inside Tripadvisor’s Real-Time Personalization with ScyllaDB + AWS

See the engineering behind real-time personalization at Tripadvisor’s massive (and rapidly growing) scale

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How Discord Migrated Trillions of Messages from Cassandra to ScyllaDB

Learn why and how Discord’s persistence team recently completed their most ambitious migration yet: moving their massive set of trillions of messages from Cassandra to ScyllaDB.

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ScyllaDB is No Longer “Just a Faster Cassandra”

Predictable performance isn't just a feature—it's a must for anyone building serious, data-intensive applications at scale. ScyllaDB has often been labeled merely as a faster alternative to Cassandra,

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How Freshworks Cut Database P99 Latency by 95% – with Lower Costs

How Freshworks tackled high tail latencies, Cassandra admin burden, and any little surge causing an increase in timeouts

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Comcast Reduces P99 Latencies by 95% with ScyllaDB

How Comcast's move from Cassandra achieved a 10x improvement in latency, enabled them to handle 2x the requests at <5% of the cost and provided an extreme node reduction (962 to 78).

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How Strava Uses ScyllaDB Enterprise

How Strava uses ScyllaDB Enterprise for a variety of use cases, including a look at how ScyllaDB integrates with their architecture and a deep dive into several use cases.

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ScyllaDB vs Cassandra

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Benchmarking Apache Cassandra (40 Nodes) vs ScyllaDB (4 Nodes)

We benchmarked Apache Cassandra on 40 nodes vs ScyllaDB on just 4 nodes. Read the results to see how they stacked up on throughput, latency, and cost.

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Beyond Linear Scaling: A New Path for Performance with ScyllaDB

Explore DB performance beyond linear scalability, including what typically matters more when running high throughput and low latency workloads at scale.

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Inside Freshworks’ Migration from Cassandra to ScyllaDB

Freshworks migrated from Cassandra to ScyllaDB to handle growing audit log data efficiently. Cassandra required frequent scaling, complex repairs, and had non-linear scaling. ScyllaDB reduced costs wi

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Rakuten’s Catalog Platform Migration from Cassandra to ScyllaDB

How Rakuten migrated the retail product catalog’s live data processing pipeline from Cassandra without disrupting their 1.5B worldwide members.

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Inside Expedia’s Migration to ScyllaDB for Change Data Capture

How Expedia’s database engineer team is overcoming Cassandra's limitations by migrating to ScyllaDB.

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Benchmark: Apache Cassandra vs ScyllaDB

See benchmarks on how Cassandra compares ScyllaDB: latencies and throughputs for various workloads, as well as the speed of common admin operations.

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Scaling Up vs. Scaling Out: Mythbusting Database Deployment Options

Explore the merits of small clusters and see test results that debunk the concerns some organizations have about using large nodes.

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Where Apache Cassandra Falls Short, and Why

Explore four core issues at the root of common problems encountered running Apache Cassandra in production.

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Cassandra to ScyllaDB: Technical Comparison and the Path to Success

What can you expect when migrating from Cassandra to ScyllaDB? This session provides a jumpstart based on what we’ve learned from working with your peers across hundreds of use cases.

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GumGum Improves Performance and Lowers Costs by Moving to ScyllaDB

Keith Sader, Engineering Manager of the Ad Server (Demand) team, explains how Gumgum moved to Scylla Cloud to deliver AI-driven ads with better performance and lower costs, while virtually eliminating

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Why GumGum Moved to ScyllaDB Cloud to Meet Growing Customer Demand

Find out how and why GumGum, a contextual intelligence company, moved to ScyllaDB Cloud to meet growing customer demands with future-proofed solutions.

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Beyond Apache Cassandra

ScyllaDB is no longer “just” a faster Cassandra.

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ScyllaDB Solves Cassandra Timeouts and Shrinks Clusters at Fanatics

How Fanatics, official retailer of virtually every major sports league and event, beat Cassandra struggles such as node sprawl, frequent garbage collection pauses, and CPU spikes during compaction.

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