[eatonphil]

How so? Mind saying more?

[aeyes]

I suppose that they are saying that CockroachDB is a single binary which you just drop on a machine and you are good to go. For ScyllaDB you need to install Java, Python and several ScyllaDB related packages.

[hobofan]

Java? I thought the whole raison d'etre for ScyllaDB was "Cassandra without Java"?

[taywrobel]

The server implementation is, but administering it still requires the Java based Cassandra tooling like nodetool and cqlsh

[heipei]

cqlsh is written in Python. Which doesn't mean it's less of a pain in the ass ;)

[taywrobel]

Sorry, that was phrased poorly; was in reference to the parent comment’s “For ScyllaDB you need to install Java, Python and several ScyllaDB related packages”.

Just meant to say it does have tooling which requires other languages/environment specifics.

[heipei]

The Docker images for ScyllaDB work perfectly fine and ship with all administrative tools included.

[tracker1]

I think you may be confusing ScyllaDB with Cassandra.