Performance at high scales is better and the cost at high scales is less. If one has a ton of data generated and has to work their way through it, I think Amazon DynamoDB should the go-to database. There are no compromises when it comes to performance at a huge scale. With any …
The Amazon Web Services managed Amazon DynamoDB has excellent features which makes it stand out from all the others in market right now. The management ease it offers is far superior than its competitors and on top of that the on-demand pricing model is an advantage which works …
I have used other products like Amazon DynamoDB and Google Cloud BigTable. When it comes to price, there is not much difference. However, when it comes to the ability to handle large sets of data, I have found that Amazon DynamoDB and AstraDB share a similar efficiency level. Go…
Astra DB is at par with each one of them as it's scalability and availability is unmatched. The best thing about Astra DB is it's managed service takes care of database operations, freeing up development teams to work on application features. With its scalable architecture and …
Since I was familiar with CQL, choosing Astra DB was the only smart choice for me. It is equally capable as all the other cloud-based fully managed database services currently out in the market. It provides very good documentation also for people who are new to it, making it …
Some advantages of Cassandra by itself over the other solutions is being masterless and column oriented. About Astra DB, for us the decision-making factor was having a serverless solution and with the latest Cassandra version and features, additionally it provides a rich set …
We know Astra is built on Cassandra / Kubernetes / Stargate and can work on any cloud. The competitors we reviewed are cloud specific and create a lock in. We also have the option to run Cassandra / Stargate ourselves if we wanted to. The competitors don’t give that option.
We already used some NoSQL databases and of course Apache Cassandra itself. We
wanted cloud based and globally distributed Apache Cassandra as DBaaS service. Managing IaaS for this role is expensive and cumbersome in terms of managing yourself.
Free tier and pricing model of …
We liked the definitive structure to schema data types and the independence from tying ourselves to a specific cloud provider. We also preferred a solution that is not a blackbox and we have sone understanding of what is happening under the hood.
Free plan of AstaDB was convenient for us to start development without initial cost spending. Free features comparably to DynamoDB, CosmosDB and Scylla are richer and efficient to start development.