[snapetom]

We initially looked at Cassandra. We liked its use case, we liked its scalability. However we also ran into maintenance and setup pains.

We ended up going with ScyllaDB, which is a drop in replacement for Cassandra. It’s written in C. Much easier in resource demands and we didn’t have to deal with Zookeeper directly.

[bbromhead]

Cassandra doesn't require Zookeeper

[snapetom]

Ah, good to know. Our admins set up Zookeeper with Cassandra, so I had always assumed it was part of the deal.

[AtlasBarfed]

And Scylladb may have a better thread-per-core model and no GC pauses, it basically has the exact same management challenges as Cassandra.

The parent comment almost seems generated by AI.

[snapetom]

Dumb statements all around, but clearly you've never been in a Cassandra environment vs Scylla. Scylla is far, far more reliable, easier to get up and running, and required a bit less supervision than Cassandra.