Apache Cassandra Replacement Resources

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

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

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.

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,

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

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.

Cassandra vs. ScyllaDB: Evolutionary Differences

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

We Built a Better Cassandra + ScyllaDB Driver for Node.js – with Rust

Lessons learned building a Rust-backed Node.js driver for ScyllaDB: bridging JS and Rust, performance pitfalls, and benchmark results

Scaling Performance Comparison: ScyllaDB Tablets vs Cassandra vNodes

Benchmarks show ScyllaDB tablet-based scaling 7.2× faster than Cassandra's vNode-based scaling (9× with cleanup), sustaining ~3.5X higher throughput with fewer errors