AdGear and ScyllaDB at the Big Data Montreal Meetup

At the Big Data Montreal meetup, Mina Naguib from AdGear and Glauber Costa from ScyllaDB discussed the benefits of using ScyllaDB for real-time big data processing, specifically highlighting its impact on AdGear's online ad serving platform. By switching from Cassandra to ScyllaDB, AdGear was able to achieve 1 million queries per second with significantly reduced latencies and hardware requirements, downsizing from a 31-node Cassandra cluster to a more efficient 16-node ScyllaDB cluster. This transition resulted in reducing read latency from 21 milliseconds to less than 5 milliseconds during peak traffic. The presentation emphasized ScyllaDB's ability to handle high throughput with low latencies and auto-tuning capabilities, addressing common issues experienced with Cassandra such as unpredictable latency and tuning complexity. The meetup underscored the advantages of ScyllaDB's close-to-the-hardware architecture, which allows for efficient scaling and improved performance, making it a superior choice for handling real-time bidding processes in online ad exchanges.