Managed, reliable and cost effective
February 16, 2024
Managed, reliable and cost effective
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Astra DB
We use Astra DB to power core components of our application including our Feed, Chat & AI Vector search.
All our user feeds and chat data and stored and loaded from Astra DB in real time.
All our user feeds and chat data and stored and loaded from Astra DB in real time.
The vector search is used to power our recommendations engine.
Pros
- It's very resilient and scalable, no downtime and no issues scaling up to meet our needs.
- Low latency reads and writes
- Cost effective - The on demand model worked out cheaper than running our own clusters
- Great support for any of our questions or issues
Cons
- It can be a little difficult to tell how many credits are used by each database by just seeing reads & writes.
- Nothing else particularly, we haven't run into any real problems.
- Better uptime due to the managed service having no outages
- Less technical debt because we don't need to worry about upgrading our Cassandra clusters
- Lower cost on infrastructure as a whole
- Quick and easy to integrate vector search into our tech stack
Seamless
The Astra DB team helped us migrate from our existing Cassandra cluster to Astra DB with no downtime.
The Ruby driver for Cassandra also works seamlessly with Astra DB - so it was easy to integrate with our Rails app.
The dashboards in the web console also make it easy to see the performance of the managed service and help identify issues.
The Astra DB team helped us migrate from our existing Cassandra cluster to Astra DB with no downtime.
The Ruby driver for Cassandra also works seamlessly with Astra DB - so it was easy to integrate with our Rails app.
The dashboards in the web console also make it easy to see the performance of the managed service and help identify issues.
For the workloads we use Astra DB for it was a better choice than the other databases.
It worked out to be more scalable and cost affective than the traditional relational databases.
Also performant and without the downsides of size limits compared to other services.
It worked out to be more scalable and cost affective than the traditional relational databases.
Also performant and without the downsides of size limits compared to other services.
Do you think Astra DB delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Astra DB's feature set?
Yes
Did Astra DB live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Astra DB go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Astra DB again?
Yes
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