Apache Cassandra Replacement Resources

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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Expedia’s Journey from Cassandra to ScyllaDB

Expedia Group discusses the move from Apache Cassandra to Scylla, how it advanced their business goals, what they learned in the migration process, and how Scylla improved operations.

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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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Eliminating Volatile Latencies: Inside Rakuten’s NoSQL Migration

How Rakuten overcoem Apache Cassandra’s instability, inconsistent performance at scale, and maintenance overhead.

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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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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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ScyllaDB: The Best of Apache Cassandra, without the Java Overhead

Before you sink even more time and money into fighting Apache Cassandra's Java issues, consider an API-compatible database that frees you from Cassandra’s burden: ScyllaDB.

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Cassandra vs ScyllaDB: Evolutionary Differneces

A side-by-side comparison of the similarities and differences between ScyllaDB and Cassandra.

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Benchmark: Apache Cassandra 4.0 vs 3.11 and ScyllaDB

See benchmarks on how Cassandra 4.0 compares to Cassandra 3.11 as well as ScyllaDB: latencies and throughputs for various workloads, as well as the speed of common admin operations.

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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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How ScyllaDB Helped an AdTech Company Focus on Core Business

AdTech innovator GumGum wanted to escape the maintenance issues connected with Apache Cassandra. This podcast shares how they moved to a database-as-a-service (ScyllaDB Cloud DBaaS).

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Cobli’s Drive From Cassandra to ScyllaDB Cloud

The purpose of this series of posts by Cobli is to describe the strategic decisions, steps taken and the real experience of migrating a database from Cassandra to ScyllaDB from a primarily...

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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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Comcast on Sprinting from Cassandra to ScyllaDB

Comcast’s X1 platform supports more than 30 million set top boxes and another 15 million more “second screen” devices used on a monthly basis. Their X1 Scheduler processes over 2 billion RESTful calls

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Expedia Group's Migration Journey from Apache Cassandra to ScyllaDB

How Expedia is achieving 3x throughput vs. Cassandra at single-digit read latencies as well as 30% infrastructure cost savings.

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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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Why 10 Teams Moved on from Apache Cassandra

Why are so many teams breaking up with Apache Cassandra? Stability, performance at scale, maintenance overhead, and TCO are common reasons. But let's hear directly from teams who made the switch.

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Using ScyllaDB for Order Capture at Fanatics

An online sports apparel powerhouse, Fanatics has to power an always-on scalable ecommerce site listing wares for over 1,000 vendors, and to track the shopping carts of millions of demanding sports fa

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Performance Testing by Ticketmaster: ScyllaDB vs. Cassandra vs. Datastax

Learn why Ticketmaster went with Scylla after conducting performance testing between Scylla, Apache Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise.

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How Rakuten Eliminated Volatile Latencies with a NoSQL Migration

Rakuten is a Japanese online shopping powerhouse, responsible for $15 billion in annual sales. It is one of the most frequented sites in the world. To keep it operational throughout the year, and...

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