We use ScyllaDB, a NoSQL database, as a distributed system to store customer data. My last project was in telecommunications, where we stored caller information like phone numbers, names, and scam tags for a scam call protection service. We handled insert, update, and other operations since the back-end AI system needed daily data inputs. We ran scripts to add the data to ScyllaDB across two AWS regions: US East and US West. One Scylla node handled requests, synchronizing data with its peer nodes. During the POC phase, we testedperformance, read/write operations, and latency and chose the right consistency levels for ourneeds. After that, we moved to production.
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Comprendre les mécanismes de partitionnement et de distribution des données de ScyllaDB
Qu'aimez-vous le plus à propos de the product?
J'admire les performances à faible latence de ScyllaDB, l'utilisation efficace des ressources grâce à l'architecture C++, la scalabilité fluide. De plus, la compatibilité de l'API de Cassandra permet un débit élevé pour les applications de traitement de données en temps réel pour de grands ensembles de données.
Que n’aimez-vous pas à propos de the product?
ScyllaDB se caractérise par un support limité pour les requêtes complexes et les index secondaires, ce qui entrave les performances dans certains cas d'utilisation nécessitant des capacités de requête plus sophistiquées au-delà des charges de travail de base.
Quels sont les problèmes que the product résout, et en quoi cela vous est-il bénéfique?
J'apprécie les solutions de ScyllaDB pour les défis NoSQL à haute performance et évolutivité. Il aborde les limitations des bases de données traditionnelles, permettant une gestion efficace de grands ensembles de données et des analyses en temps réel.
Offers encryption and supports APIs, making it great for distributed systems
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
We are customers, not partners, and we’ve used ScyllaDB to implement an application in our company.
What is most valuable?
The best features of ScyllaDB are how it synchronizes data and its failover system. There's a unique formula to decide the number of nodes you need and the minimum required, which I find helpful. It also offers encryption and supports APIs, making it great for distributed systems
and scaling databases across different regions. While it's easy to use, having prior experience helps configure it properly. There are many configurations; if you don't understand them, you might mess up the design. So, understanding your system's needs, like whether it requires more read or write operations, is crucial for setting up the correct configuration.
What needs improvement?
We faced several challenges while integrating ScyllaDB into our AWS environment. One common issue was that a security port wasn’t opened on one node, preventingdata synchronization across clusters. We noticed the data wasn’t syncing correctly when we saw different record counts in other regions. After investigating, we found that the port was closed in one AWS region. Once we opened the port, the data synchronization across all nodes resumed as expected.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using ScyllaDB for the last three years. Initially, we worked on some POC projects and deployed one live project into production.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I've had some stability issues with ScyllaDB. For instance, if one of the nodes in a cluster goes down, sometimes the APIs or command line tools don't work to read the node's status. You might need to restart the node to bring it back up manually. It can be challenging if the node'sstate gets messed up and must be cleaned before re-adding it to the cluster. Based on stability, I'd rate it a seven out of ten. However, since we're using the free version, it might be more stable with the paid version, which could be a nine out of ten.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The paid version of ScyllaDB is not that expensive. The main advantage of the paid version is direct support from the ScyllaDB team, which can resolve issues faster—typically within a day, compared to two to three days with the free version. The paid version also offers better guidance and support, while the free version has good documentation and is more high-level. I’d rate their support team nine out of ten because of the quick responses from their community.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend ScyllaDB to others. It’s a great product built on Cassandra, with added advantages. For newcomers, it’s a distributed database with excellent scalability and performance and very low latency for all kinds of operations. Overall, I’d rate ScyllaDB an eight out of ten.
Query any data from any node as fast as possible and documentation cut out really nicely
What is our primary use case?
We have a business model that requires heavy reads for several applications all in one place. So we decided to use ScyllaDB because of the workload, to have multiple reads and writes at the same time.
What is most valuable?
I like how fast it is to query data from the ScyllaDB node! Because it can actually enable you to query any data from any node as fast as possible. And the ability to save the same copies of data across the cluster, depending on your setup as well. It's really fast.
What needs improvement?
Some of the regular commands in NoSQL do not work. It's Cassandra and ScyllaDB, so you have to make custom commands to be able to query data sometimes. It doesn't have universal compatibility. It will not allow you to make use of some functions. So, I have to do custom queries to query data.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using it for about a year now.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I experienced one or two bugs, but for the database itself, it's stable. For other features, such as the ScyllaDB Manager (the one you use to control other nodes, make backups, and check the status of other nodes), there were issues. When you deploy ScyllaDB, you also deploy another instance for the manager that helps you control dashboards and visualizations.
In the previous release, there were one or two things they had to correct, which sometimes caused unexplainable errors. You had to update to the latest version. But so far, their 3.3 version has been really stable. I updated it last week.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have about two teams right now, so the number of people would be about eight to ten.
How are customer service and support?
I have contacted the customer service and support. We are trying to move to the enterprise version because the open-source version is limited.
I think everyone is trying to adopt ScyllaDB, and it's quite new. There isn't enough information on the Internet if you don't have support. So we are considering getting support as well.
ScyllaDB is trying to build their customer base right now. They are very on point. I've just had a few interactions with them, but I strongly agree that the support is very good.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We had a business model, and we tried to do a bit of research to see which one fits best. Because of ScyllaDB's scalability and high performance, they chose it.
We are a financial institution and we have relationships with several banks and fintechs. So we have their data in-house, and we try to manipulate this data, derive analytics from it, save it in different forms, and manipulate it.
ScyllaDB helps us manage high data volumes and support rapid read and write operations. It is also very effective when we demand high throughput with low latency and the ability to scale as fast as possible.
We had existing databases such as Mongo and SQL Server, but we were having performance issues. We needed something to expand, something to have a broader reach, something to give us more robustness. So that was the reason why we went with ScyllaDB.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is pretty easy. They have their documentation cut out really nicely. It's like the more regular installations you have to do for a database cluster. But, yeah, it's pretty easy.
We use the open-source version on-premises, but we're trying to move to the enterprise version. But currently, we are deployed on-premises.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It's a bit expensive. When we were given a quotation for our setup, it was actually quite expensive as well.
What other advice do I have?
If you are not familiar with it at all and you're trying to adopt it for the first time, it's going to be incredibly difficult. It's a journey that we have passed through. Without proper support or without going for the cloud model or the enterprise model where you get support from ScyllaDB, I would advise against going for ScyllaDB.
But if you want to try it out to see what it can do, and you're okay with running without support, I'd say fine, you can use it. It's a really good database.
But if you've explained your business model and what you want to use it for, my first question would be whether you are okay with running without support. If you can't, I would ask you to just look somewhere else for something that works better for you.
Overall, I would rate it an eight out of ten, with one being bad and ten being the best. I haven't really explored the full capabilities of ScyllaDB because without support, you don't know how efficient it can be and how your usage can be.
The reason why I would say eight is because we've seen firsthand how ScyllaDB is able to manage a high workload. And because of its shared-nothing architecture, it distributes its views and processes.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
NoSQL DB with High Performance - ScyllaDB
What do you like best about the product?
The best part about scyllaDB I personally Like is its Low latency and High Scalability
It is very strongly compatable with Cassendra DB
It is really easy to use
ScyllaDB has very good custom support and quick issue resolution team
It is very strongly compatable with Cassendra DB
It is really easy to use
ScyllaDB has very good custom support and quick issue resolution team
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost is a very big dislike I found about scyllaDB I find it quite costly
There is lack availability of resouces whic hinders learning
There is lack availability of resouces whic hinders learning
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Me and my team has recetly faced a lot of problems related to latency and scalability where scyllaDB act as life boat resolving all the issues
Solution nosql optimale pour l'évolutivité
Qu'aimez-vous le plus à propos de the product?
Scylladb s'est avéré être notre solution unique pour tous nos besoins en bases de données. Il offre de nombreuses fonctionnalités comme une haute scalabilité, un sharding automatique, une faible latence et un moteur de base de données haute performance ainsi qu'un réglage fin de la configuration au niveau des shards. La meilleure chose était qu'il offre une surveillance des tablettes où je peux voir la performance des requêtes et les résultats. Nous l'utilisons souvent pour de nombreux cas d'utilisation et la meilleure partie est qu'il est facile à intégrer et à utiliser.
Que n’aimez-vous pas à propos de the product?
À première vue, l'édition entreprise serait difficile à comprendre en raison de la large gamme d'options dans le tableau de bord de surveillance de ScyllaDB. Le support client et la documentation peuvent être améliorés. De plus, toutes les fonctionnalités par rapport à d'autres bases de données sont encore en cours de développement.
Quels sont les problèmes que the product résout, et en quoi cela vous est-il bénéfique?
Scylladb étant une base de données NoSQL offre de nombreuses fonctionnalités avec les applications cloud natives. Auparavant, nous utilisions dynamodb pour nos cas d'utilisation, donc la transition avec scylladb a été très facile avec beaucoup de fonctionnalités supplémentaires. La distribution des données avec les tablettes est l'une des caractéristiques clés qui améliore notre utilisation de la base de données et personnellement, j'aime son tableau de bord de surveillance qui est assez convivial et facile à utiliser.
Scylla DB est hautement évolutif et est une base de données avec une faible latence.
Qu'aimez-vous le plus à propos de the product?
La meilleure partie, selon moi, était sa performance et sa rapidité extrême. J'ai également aimé les quelques fonctionnalités suivantes :
- Compatible avec la base de données Cassandra
- Très fiable
- Disponible sur la base de données NoSQL
- Fonctionnalité multi-shards
- Excellent service de support personnalisé
- Compatible avec la base de données Cassandra
- Très fiable
- Disponible sur la base de données NoSQL
- Fonctionnalité multi-shards
- Excellent service de support personnalisé
Que n’aimez-vous pas à propos de the product?
- Je l'ai trouvé un peu plus élevé en termes d'abordabilité
- En raison du manque de disponibilité des ressources d'apprentissage et de la documentation, il est très difficile d'apprendre Scylla DB
- En raison du manque de disponibilité des ressources d'apprentissage et de la documentation, il est très difficile d'apprendre Scylla DB
Quels sont les problèmes que the product résout, et en quoi cela vous est-il bénéfique?
Syclla DB est un sauveur pour toute mon équipe car nous faisions face à des défis liés à la performance et à la latence puisque notre équipe utilise une base de données SQL basse.
ScyllaDB: Superior Capabilities, Low Latency NoSQL Database
What do you like best about the product?
ScyllaDB is the best database for our needs, effectively solving our latency issues. Its multi-sharding and caching functionalities make it highly scalable.
What do you dislike about the product?
The features of ScyllaDB perfectly meet our needs, despite the fact that its limited documentation can make it difficult to learn.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
ScyllaDB uses multi-sharding and coaching to effectively minimize latency and scale.
Jusqu'à présent, la base de données NoSQL la plus performante.
Qu'aimez-vous le plus à propos de the product?
La meilleure partie était la performance et l'évolutivité. Dans ScyllaDB, chaque nœud est isolé, ce qui a fourni une performance vraiment remarquable avec une facilité d'utilisation. Sa fonctionnalité de multiples shards le rendait unique par rapport à ceux que nous utilisions. Une fois la communauté construite, je pense que cela peut aller loin.
Que n’aimez-vous pas à propos de the product?
La documentation est limitée et le soutien de la communauté est également faible, ce qui rend son adoption difficile.
Quels sont les problèmes que the product résout, et en quoi cela vous est-il bénéfique?
La plupart de nos services utilisent des bases de données Nosql. Notre choix habituel était MongoDB, mais avec notre dernier service, nous avons essayé cela et il fonctionne bien jusqu'à présent. Nous prévoyons de remplacer MongoDB par ScyllaDB dans d'autres services également.
ScyllaDB: High-Performance NoSQL Database for Real-Time Applications
What do you like best about the product?
It’s highly scalable and that muti shards and caching functionality makes it the best db also it solves our latency issue
What do you dislike about the product?
It’s not that easy to learn due to lack of learning or documentation but its features are what we needed
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
ScyllaDB addresses several critical issues in database management:
Scalability
Compatibility Issues
Scalability
Compatibility Issues
Base de données qui vaut la peine d'être intégrée dans votre infrastructure
Qu'aimez-vous le plus à propos de the product?
Il gère les charges de travail très confortablement avec une utilisation optimale du matériel. Il offre des opérations à faible latence, tant en lecture qu'en écriture. L'équipe est très confiante quant au niveau de support que cette base de données nous offre, tant pour l'utilisabilité que pour la fiabilité.
Que n’aimez-vous pas à propos de the product?
Bien qu'il nous offre de nombreux avantages, le prix pourrait être un peu plus bas. De plus, la documentation a besoin de quelques améliorations.
Quels sont les problèmes que the product résout, et en quoi cela vous est-il bénéfique?
Nous sommes capables de tirer parti des avantages de cette base de données pour notre outil interne qui est utile pour mettre à l'échelle et gérer plusieurs serveurs avec sa faible latence. Les API sont faciles à intégrer avec d'autres bases de données NoSQL.
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