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Your Apache Cassandra in the Cloud without hassle and tears
December 08, 2022

Your Apache Cassandra in the Cloud without hassle and tears

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Astra DB

We are using it as our Apache Cassandra DBaaS storage for IoT project and Fleet Management. We looked the way how to move our Apache Cassandra DBs to the cloud with minimal infrastructure cost. Previously we used VDS services of our local providers for managing VMs instances with Apache Cassandra. It costed much for us. So for for private infrastructure we still use customers resources and for the cloud native and cloud friendly customers we advice Astra DB as DBaaS service.
  • Keyspace can't be changed after creation
  • Regions of presence not huge
  • Columns limit for the table exists
  • Add additional drivers
  • Highly reduced IaaS spending for the infrastructure
  • Fully managed service
  • Ease to use and manage in the cloud (plug and play)
  • Fast development process
  • Eliminates care of version management
Saves huge time and cost for self managing IaaS for the Apache Cassandra databases. Removed headaches for the DevOps team. Comparably cheaper in terms of usage cost for the new developers and starters. Free tier almost enough to start coding and hacking your MVPs. Good option for the startup teams to hands-on Apache Cassandra in the cloud managed environment.
I like the region of presence of Astra DB cloud regions and it scales good. Hope these regions will grow faster because we almost use data which is important for us in terms of privacy, compliance, regulation and near data-center presence. The more regions we have the less data traverse between locations and faster the response to the users.
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 Astra DB was what exactly we need at the
beginning of our project. To evaluate power of Astra DB without any without any obligations and other credit card registration is very attractive.

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

Use cases where NoSQL database is used the most, Astra DB comes very handy. In our case we used it for PoC and MVP projects like IoT project for the Facility Management and Asset Management for the large set of assets. Astra DB got well job for NoSQL schema data and we are looking where it may be used else and evaluate the performance of AstaDB.

Astra DB Support

Responsive support get in touch very quickly and resolved issues. Skilled engineer found our mistake very quickly and issue was resolved.

Using Astra DB

Ease of use, familiar commands as Apache Cassandra and scalability in the cloud.