AstraDB Managed Cassandra Service in Enterprise Environment
Updated August 28, 2025

AstraDB Managed Cassandra Service in Enterprise Environment

SP (Saladi Pullaya) Naidu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Astra DB

We migrated all of our 6 business critical self managed DB clusters to AstraDB. Main business problem we are solving with Astra DB is to utilize On Demand capacity pay per use model for our seasonal traffic /capacity patterns. Second problem we are addressing is seamless maintenance and upgrade feature that comes with Managed Service. Scope of our use case is business critical transactional DB's for high availability and low latency usecases
Astra DB is able to scale up and scale down during our peak holiday season without any prior preparatory changes

Pros

  • Pay per use vs. fixed cost model
  • Maintenance and Security patching
  • Seamless Upgrades
  • Automatic scale up and Scale down
  • New features - CDC, Streaming are very useful

Cons

  • When there is a lag between regions for replication, there is no monitoring in place
  • Maintenance cycles are not planned in advance and many times with very short period of notice, maintenance is planned
  • Support team maturity is still requires more improvements
  • Positive impact is through ROI - saving $250k/year with migration from self managed to Astra DB managed service
  • Team members spending less time on maintenance, patching and upgrades
  • Number of additional features such as Streaming, Vector Search are additional features available
  • Auto scaling feature takes out stress of estimating and preparing for critical peak periods
Even with multi-tenant environment, AstraDB scalability is very impressive. One of our application had a spike of 10x compared to normal traffic pattern and AstraDB did accommodate this spike without any impact. Having private link capability for connectivity provides high data throughput and secure connectivity with minimal cost. Finally requesting increase in throughput for short time periods is easy with one service ticket

Do you think Astra DB, now part of IBM watsonx.data delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Astra DB, now part of IBM watsonx.data's feature set?

Yes

Did Astra DB, now part of IBM watsonx.data live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Astra DB, now part of IBM watsonx.data go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Astra DB, now part of IBM watsonx.data again?

Yes

Datastax has great Zero Down Time (ZDT) migration capabilities and tools which helps to migrate from Apache Cassandra to Astra DB. One of the main features is Capacity elasticity, high transaction throughput which helps with low latency requirement for Applications. Built-in feature of replication across multiple regions provide fault tolerance and high availability. Lastly very intutive user interface for Management of User management and billing/usage is very helpful for administration

Astra DB, now part of IBM watsonx.data Feature Ratings

Vector Database
6.9
Vector Data Connection
8
Vector Data Editing
8
Attribute Management
7
Geospatial Analysis
7
Geometric Transformations
7
Vector Data Visualization
6
Coordinate Reference System Management:
6
Data Import/Export
6
Symbolization and Styling
7
Data Sharing and Collaboration
7

Using Astra DB

50 - Business Critical Applications Payments, Checkout, Product Catalog
Change Data Capture for synching changes to Reporting applications
Used as Data Cache for less frequently changing data sources
Powering API's
Vector Search

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