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Astra DB

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What is Astra DB?

Astra DB from DataStax is a vector database for developers that need to get accurate Generative AI applications into production, fast.

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Astra DB (serverless) as primary database for a edtech SaaS product

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 23, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Astra DB as the database for our OB3 web application, which is used by Higher Education organisations and Universities in Australia and New Zealand. It is therefore one...
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Rodney Tamblyn
Director - Information Technology
Co-founer
OB3
Astra DB1 year of experience

Astra DB Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 23, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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Muhammed Shabeer
Engineer - Engineering
Senior Software Engineer
Arré (U Digital Content Pvt Ltd)
Astra DB1 year of experience

AstraDB Managed Cassandra Service in Enterprise Environment

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 16, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We migrated all of our 6 business critical self managed DB clusters to AstraDB. Main business problem we are solving with Astra DB is to utilize On Demand capacity pay per use...
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SP (Saladi Pullaya) Naidu
Director - Information Technology
Director of Cloud and Data
Digitial River
Astra DB3 years of experience

Harness capabilities of large AI models safely and rich context using Astra DV vectors

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 16, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
To enhance productivity and significantly boost our win ratio for building successful proposals, we aim to implement a system that provides highly contextual retrieval of rele...
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Prasad Prabhakaran
C-Level Executive - Information Technology
Head of AI
Esynergy
Astra DB1 year of experience

Scalable Vector Database Powering Winweb's Chatbot

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 25, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We mainly use Astra DB Vector databases for our internal and customer support chatbots. The internal chatbot uses a database with more critical data and is therefore, separate...
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Jan Schummers
Team Lead - Engineering
Senior Software Engineer
Winweb Informationstechnologie GmbH
Astra DB1 year of experience
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How Astra DB Differs From Its Competitors

Developer Experience

Astra DB abstracted the entire infrastructure part so that our developers could focus on the AI application. We did not need to attend trainings and conferences about the internals of vector databases. They just work. Overall, it made the experience of writing a RAG chatbot very comfortable.
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Developer Experience

Astra DB out of the box supports Datastax Java driver which is easy to migrate from Apache Cassandra to Astra DB without code changes. Stargate framework for abstraction to working with Astra DB will reduce coding for interaction with Astra DB and increases developer productivity. Built-in …
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Developer Experience

Very great. It's really easy to use, clear documentation and the level of abstraction on their SDK is impressive. My team gained about 35% of time back just using the Astra DB SDK.
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Developer Experience

In our case, It's been an easy way to implement Gen AI - based applications. For the developers it is very easy to integrate, either through the drivers or through the api, using plain CQL. All the hosting and management is left to Astra DB itself
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Developer Experience

Astra DB provides a developer-friendly environment with support for popular programming languages and development frameworks. It simplifies the process of building and maintaining databases, allowing developers to focus on application logic. Managing Astra DN becomes easy with all the features …
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Developer Experience

Astra DB's support for multi-region deployments simplifies the work of guaranteeing low-latency access and high availability for consumers all over the world for developers creating internationally dispersed applications. Astra DB provides SDKs and APIs for a variety of programming languages, …
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Developer Experience

Because Astra DB is a fully managed database service, our developers may delegate normal database maintenance activities to DataStax, such as provisioning, patching, backups, and scaling. This allows developers to concentrate on code rather than infrastructure maintenance. Astra DB's support for …
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Developer Experience

Being familiar with CQL gave us an advantage of time as it reduced the learning curve and helped a lot in managing the services. Also, it helped in reducing costs as it is a very efficient and scalable data management solution.
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Developer Experience

Overall, by providing a robust and scalable data platform that aligns with our technical and business needs, DataStax has been instrumental in helping us achieve key objectives around growth, customer experience, efficiency, innovation, and reliability. Their solution has been a key enabler of our …
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Developer Experience

As a developer, working with Astra has been very easy and intuitive. It has helped me build and iterate faster. As a manager, it has helped me make sure that my team has the best and most reliable tools to build with.
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Developer Experience

First of all, Astra DB offers support on Cassandra as Cassandra is very much difficult to maintain. A mature, scalable repository with good support. The integration and support are top notch. Astra DB was really easy for our employees to learn and really simple to work with. Also the support from …
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Developer Experience

Learning new things from the documentation such as working with Stargate API was interesting. The documentation is well written. Astra CLI makes it much easier. And one doesn't have to write a lot of commands since it does most of the work itself.
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Developer Experience

The product's standard is very high and far exceeds that of Apache Cassandra's open source counterpart. As Astra DB is very smooth to operate, our employees learnt the tool real quick, and thus the working within our environment has become more efficient. The customer service always clears our …
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Developer Experience

We ask anyone who is learning Cassandra to start with Astra. We publish many Gitpod / open source scenarios for our team members and clients to work with Astra as a starting point for different types of tasks such as Stream processing, data ops, ETL/ELT.

Having the ability to get people started …
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Developer Experience

When I started using Astra DB, I did not have much knowledge regarding the use of databases, their management, and implementation in real cases. However, the good documentation they have allowed my learning curve to be quite fast. Also, the fact that their support team has immediate attention as a …
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Developer Experience

The best part about using Astra DB is that the integration and support is really smooth. It's hard to find such a pre-packaged solution that includes database drivers for almost every language you need to write in. For our team, Astra DB has simplified cloud-native Cassandra application …
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Developer Experience

It has an initial learning curve, and it's important to understand the Cassandra architecture and principles if you want to take the best from it. Also the connection could be challenging at the beginning, but it's because of the security standards. Once you add it to your toolbox, you will …
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Developer Experience

As the managing Cassandra platform provider, Astra DB has established itself as the market leader. The documentation and training materials alone are fantastic contributions. Astra DB has made a significant contribution to open source tooling, and their technical blog is fantastic. When launching …
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What is Astra DB?

Astra DB from DataStax is a vector database for developers that need to get accurate Generative AI applications into production, fast.

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Product Details

What is Astra DB?

DataStax Astra DB is a vector database for developers, that can be used to get Generative AI applications into production quickly. Astra DB gives users APIs, data pipelines, and a complete ecosystem integrations to build Gen AI applications on real-time data for more accurate AI that can be deployed in production. Built on Apache Cassandra, Astra DB is a vector database that can make vector updates immediately available to applications and scale to the largest real-time data and streaming workloads securely on any cloud.


The Data API for Astra DB makes it easy to build GenAI apps. Access rich functionality, scalability, and the performance of Astra DB, without the need for complex data modeling. The Data API includes clients for Python, TypeScript, and Java with extensive examples and detailed documentation, showing you the development steps for GenAI apps.

Astra DB is integrated with Langflow making it easy for developers to experiment and try different strategies for their application. Switch between embedding modes, LLMs, retrievers, etc. easily and test with real data in a secure, hosted solution with no installation required.

Astra DB Features

  • Supported: Multi-model
  • Supported: Multi-region
  • Supported: Change Data Capture (CDC) for Astra DB
  • Supported: Storage Attached Indexing (SAI)
  • Supported: Serverless

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Demo: Build GenAI Applications Visually with Langflow and Astra DB

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Astra DB Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesAMER, EMEA, APAC

Frequently Asked Questions

Astra DB from DataStax is a vector database for developers that need to get accurate Generative AI applications into production, fast.

Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB, and Azure Cosmos DB are common alternatives for Astra DB.

Reviewers rate Attribute Management highest, with a score of 9.1.

The most common users of Astra DB are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Astra DB (serverless) as primary database for a edtech SaaS product

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
September 23, 2024
Likelihood to Recommend
We are coming to Astra DB from a background of having used and relied on Cassandra (open source) database for over 10 years. Our use case is particularly well suited to NoSQL. We selected Datastax Astra primarily for scalability, support, contingency planning, and reducing the technical complexity of our operations. We were looking for a reliable partner with strong presence in our region (APAC) and we are confident we've found this in Datastax.

Astra DB Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
September 23, 2024
MS
Muhammed Shabeer
Senior Software Engineer
Arré (U Digital Content Pvt Ltd) (Entertainment, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Astra DB
1 year of experience
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Likelihood to Recommend
For vector search capabilities where you need some powerful querying capability like CQL, Astra DB is the solution. Also Astra DB suits well where someone wants to build a RAG setup. Its cloud-native design and distributed architecture make Astra DB a great fit for companies operating across multiple regions or requiring high availability.

AstraDB Managed Cassandra Service in Enterprise Environment

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
August 16, 2024
Likelihood to Recommend
Datastax has great Zero Down Time (ZDT) migration capabilities and tools which helps to migrate from Apache Cassandra to Astra DB. One of the main features is Capacity elasticity, high transaction throughput which helps with low latency requirement for Applications. Built-in feature of replication across multiple regions provide fault tolerance and high availability. Lastly very intutive user interface for Management of User management and billing/usage is very helpful for administration
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