Astra DB Reviews & Ratings 2024

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Overview

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.

Recent Reviews

DataStax Delivers Rock Solid Scalability and Performance.

10 out of 10

March 08, 2024

Incentivized

When our engineering team started developing ChatStack, we needed a backend solution that could meet all our requirements within our …

Managed, reliable and cost effective

10 out of 10

February 16, 2024

Incentivized

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 …

Astra DB and vector databases

9 out of 10

February 14, 2024

Incentivized

We connected Astra DB as a vector database to our backend. The main use case for it is that we store the embeddings of our main data …

Astra DB will help you break into GenAI and give you a technical advantage.

10 out of 10

November 07, 2023

Incentivized

We use Astra DB as our primary vector database. It is used to store vector embeddings for unstructured data as well as other business …

Unleash the Power of Scalable, Globally Distributed Data Management!

8 out of 10

October 13, 2023

Incentivized

We use Astra DB to scale our databases horizontally to handle large amounts of data and high-traffic loads. High scalability with equally …

We trust Astra DB for Our Storage Needs!

10 out of 10

October 06, 2023

Incentivized

We utilize Astra DB because it is critical for applications that demand continuous horizontal scalability. It can easily handle increasing …

The Best Supportive Tool is Astra DB!

10 out of 10

October 06, 2023

Incentivized

Astra DB is built to scale seamlessly. We simply scale our database up or down to match changes in the workload of your application. It …

Basically Cassandra in Cloud!

7 out of 10

October 06, 2023

Incentivized

Astra DB is a versatile database service built on Apache Cassandra. Someone who has knowledge of Cassandra will have a smoother experience …

Makes life a bit easy!

7 out of 10

September 28, 2023

Incentivized

We at edii use astra with ease as it provides amazing cassandra features which makes all of our lives easy. We have solved scalability …

The finest tool for all your database needs!

10 out of 10

April 08, 2023

Incentivized

Astra DB has been a phenomenal tool, we have gained an organized workplace due to it. The data structure is so well maintained, and our …

Get database with less maintenance at a competitive pricing.

9 out of 10

April 05, 2023

Incentivized

Astra DB is used as one of the databases for developing our product. Since we at Edii have been working with CQL, it wasn't difficult to …

The database tool you must have!

10 out of 10

April 04, 2023

Incentivized

We use Astra DB as our main database provider. It has helped us keeping our data secured and organized. The working environment has become …

One of the best in the market right now!

8 out of 10

March 31, 2023

Incentivized

Astra Db is used in creating databases with minimum time spent. Easy to set up and use. Solves all of our data problems in one place. …

Astra DB is the only thing you need!

8 out of 10

March 29, 2023

Incentivized

Astra DB is used as the primary source of data operations at Edii. Provides a high scale solution for all the data needs and handles …

Migration or starting new, Astra DB has got you covered.

7 out of 10

March 29, 2023

Incentivized

Astra DB handles all of the databases queries our product generates. It is the backbone of our product. Every data operation is done …

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Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Their solution delivers consistently fast performance even as user loads increase substantially. This enables smooth scaling without degradation.
The pay-as-you-go pricing model can sometimes make long-term costs hard to predict.

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Professional in Corporate

Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees

It's very resilient and scalable, no downtime and no issues scaling up to meet our needs.
Nothing else particularly, we haven't run into any real problems.

Matthew Hirst

Head of Engineering

Hornet Networks Limited (Internet, 51-200 employees)

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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.

Entry-level set up fee?

No setup fee

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Offerings

Free Trial
Free/Freemium Version
Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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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.

According to DataStax, Astra DB is purpose-built to manage mixed workloads, including diverse data types like vectors, non-vectors, and streaming data, all while handling concurrent updates and queries with precision and efficiency. Built on Apache Cassandra it allows for simultaneous search and update on distributed data and streaming workloads with ultra-low latency. This helps developers to create more responsive, more accurate production Gen AI applications that reduce hallucinations.
AI Native JSON APIs also abstracts the complexity of indexing vectors, non-vectors and any data for Gen AI.

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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Astra DB Technical Details

Deployment Types	Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating Systems	Unspecified
Mobile Application	No
Supported Countries	AMER, 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 Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.9.

The most common users of Astra DB are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

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February 22, 2023

Astra DB makes my job easier

Alejandro Diaz

Computer Vision Engineer

Flowbase (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)

Score 10 out of 10

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Verified User

Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Astra DB for storing big chunks of data. Previously, we were storing this data as files and need to keep local copies when the data was modified or updated. By using this product, we were able to reduce the amount of usage of our cloud storage system. It also gives us the capability to keep track of the most recent generated data and allows us to prevent files from being accidentally overwritten, thus losing previously generated information.

Pros and Cons

Easy to use with python
Good online support
Good documentation

Installing the python driver faster
Better interface for connecting the different tables from the DB form the website
Easy way to monitor the status and health of the DB

Likelihood to Recommend

For implementing timeseries generated data with python scripts, for example, data generated by sensors in case the data is generated in a low-frequency example making a post every 0.5 seconds or so. When the data is generated in a higher frequency sometimes the connection can fail, and the data might not be stored correctly into the DB.

Astra DB Feature Ratings

Vector Database

N/A

Return on Investment

It provides us scalability
For small business or startups the free version meets the reading/writing operations
Reachable

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 developer helps me a lot when I find issues that I can't overcome.

Scalability

The scalability is straightforward. The way to implement the service they provide is easy based on the well structured documentation they created. Also, thinking on the developer side, they have enable drivers out of the box easy to use to connect to the DB that adapt to the flavors of programming languages that are most used.

Alternatives Considered

PostgreSQL and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

It's not possible to make a straightforward comparison between the other DB and Astra, mainly because Astra is based more in providing a service for managing larger chunks of data than a RDS. However, what I can say is that the configuration therefore implementation of Astra is 10 times more easier. There is no need to be an expert in databases to configure it and start playing around with it. While for the others it requires a little bit more of theoretical knowledge.

Other Software Used

Python IDLE, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

Support Rating

Their response time is fast, in case you do not contact them during business hours, they give a very good follow-up to your case. They also facilitate video calls if necessary for debugging.

Premium Support

No, given the conditions of my company with the basic support, it was more than enough to overcome the issues found.

Exceptional Examples of Astra DB Support

I was having problems connecting to my database, which led to sometimes my data not being successfully stored in the DB. One of the support agents followed up on my case very well, including video call meetings to fix the problem.

Usability

It's easy to use, has great documentation, and great online support.

November 22, 2022

Accelerate your cloud native development with Astra DB

Ilyas Bakirov

CTO (Chief Technical Officer)

BIM+ LAB (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are evaluating AstaDB database for our IoT MVP product for the Facility Management of Assets in Industry 4.0/Oil and Gas industry in Kazakhstan. Side by side with standalone Apache Cassandra database for data storage to store locally we also implemented cloud storage based on AstraDB. We are still in early stage in our project and currently PoC progress at the one of our industrial customers going internal development and testing. We hope going GA for the next year if all customer needs covered.

Pros and Cons

Free to use for our PoC
Cloud provider agnostic
Rich native data APIs
Global presence: multiple data centers, availability zones and multi-region

We found gRPC difficulties but we will hands on Stargate API gateway
Some CQL commands are not supported in Astra DB
Public access to database enabled by default
PHP legacy driver

Likelihood to Recommend

Best suits for IoT and Supply Chain & Fleet Management solution projects. Best use cases where NoSQL schema database applicable and use cases with relational schema database and ACID should be avoided.

Astra DB Feature Ratings

Vector Database

N/A

Return on Investment

Free plan enough for development and reduces development costs
Don't need to manage infrastructure for Apache Cassandra nodes
Real-time data pipelines using CDC approach

Alternatives Considered

Amazon DynamoDB, Azure Cosmos DB and Scylla

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.