Astra DB

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 success.

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.

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

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.

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 provided. The impact has been nothing but positive overall and will continue to be so, I suppose.

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, allowing developers to interface with the database and incorporate it into their applications more easily.

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 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.

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.

The availability at various data centers is something that makes Astra DB a blessing for not only our team but our company too.

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 Astra DB customer service was very helpful.

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.

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 doubt regarding things.

The documentation is well-written which makes it easier to share with the team without having to explain it. Tools and operations become easy to handle. Onboarding the team was a piece of cake.

The best part about the service is the documentation which makes performing a task easy for a developer. If you're new to cassandra or new to database, Astra DB has it all covered.

As a developer using the commands in documentation are pretty easy to follow. Plus Connection of spark to Astra DB which allows the introduction to spark data frames does wonders for a developer or administrator.

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 development, it saves us quite a lot of time!

Experience has been great, and the tools provided very much do their job as intended. Setup of databases is quick and painless, allowing us to get to building applications sooner without having to worry about provisioning on the manual cluster.

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 discover a lot of scenarios where it goes over other storage solutions.

As a developer, my experience with AstraDB has been overwhelmingly positive. The platform's user-friendly interface and comprehensive documentation allowed me to quickly get started with creating my chatbot application. The API-first design and SDKs available in multiple programming languages made it easy to integrate AstraDB into my existing development workflow.The serverless architecture of AstraDB removed the need to manage infrastructure, enabling me to focus on the core functionality of my chatbot. This not only improved my productivity but also accelerated the overall development process. AstraDB's built-in security features, such as encryption and token-based authentication, ensured data protection without adding extra complexity to the development process.For teams managing developers, AstraDB can have a significant positive impact. The platform's scalability and performance capabilities can enhance team collaboration and efficiency, while its pay-as-you-go pricing model offers cost savings and flexibility. By reducing the time spent on database management, developers can allocate more resources to building and refining applications, ultimately driving business success.

We are happy with the Cassandra database. We are a developer and work well with the Astra DB team.

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 a Cassandra-based cloud application, Astra DB Enterprise is exactly what you need. The service level and the integrations with Spark, Opscenter, and Hadoop make Astra DB worthwhile.

I feel that Astra DB is an almost zero-friction drop-in replacement for self-managed Cassandra - a very good option for developers looking for a serverless NoSQL database.

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.

The powerful Astra SDK enable developers for fast , powerful and easy integration