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Solution on the edge and at scale
March 27, 2023

Solution on the edge and at scale

Emilio Figueroa Torres | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Astra DB

We use it as a data lake for some of our products and as a resource for research used by our Data team.
  • Astra DB helps you to onboard really fast and guides you in your use-cases.
  • Astra DB provides very good documentation, SDKs and different options to connect.
  • Astra DB offers edge products and services to have the last features available for your team.
  • Astra DB can improve in their monitoring options.
  • Astra DB can improve in their cost management tools.
  • Astra DB could improve in providing easier tools and process to explore data at the first steps.
  • Availability for our Data team to access the data for research.
  • Capacity to scale on-demand.
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.
The only area of improvement here is when you use the on-demand service, and you need to increase the amount of writes over a threshold defined by Astra DB, you need to contact support and also will have a defined timeframe for this increased capacity. I understood it was a technical limitation at the time.
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 of alternatives to connect from your services.

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

Redis Enterprise Cloud™*, MongoDB Atlas, Amazon Aurora
I recommend Astra DB for any scenario where you need to store immutable data (it can be updated, but it fits better when your data is immutable), also with an access pattern of shard-key + sort-key, and where there's a need to have massive and fast writing speed and high availability. In particular, Astra DB serverless is a great option if you need a full managed solution capable to grow on demand.