Accelerate your cloud native development with Astra DB
November 22, 2022
Accelerate your cloud native development with Astra DB
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Astra DB
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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
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
Using Astra DB
5 - Software as a Service for Facility Management of Assets for Industry 4.0 and Oil/Gas (subsoil users)
3 - Strong skills in NoSQL databases and Apache Cassandra must have for people to support Astra DB.
- NoSQL database storage for IoT projects
- Multi-cloud managed Apache Cassandra service
- Scalable database for our Facility and Asset Management solution
- We combined 3D modeling, BIM and NoSQL database for our FM solution
- We offer On-premise and cloud FM solution based on DBaaS
- Our FM solution is cloud vendor agnostic solution to fulfill customers needs
- Scale current solutions for the cloud native apps
- Monolithic solutions to be re-designed for micro-services
- New solutions based on NoSQL architecture
Evaluating Astra DB and Competitors
Yes - We migrated our IaaS Apache Cassandra instances to the Astra DB cloud
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Prior Experience with the Product
Free plan to start development evaluation very quickly
I think we would go the same way starting with "try before buy" and fulfill features we need
Astra DB Support
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Kept well informed No escalation required Immediate help available Support understands my problem Support cares about my success Quick Initial Response | None |
No. Overall we satisfied with current support scheme for now.
We get in touch with support specialist on one issue and was able to solve another issue we would face with our chosen schema.