Allegro Group Discusses how ScyllaDB Addresses Apache Cassandra’s Problems at ScyllaDB Summit 2017

At the ScyllaDB Summit 2017, Lukasz Pachciarek and Szymon Szymanski from Allegro Group discussed the advantages of ScyllaDB over Apache Cassandra, particularly in addressing some of Cassandra's shortcomings. Allegro, a major e-commerce platform in Central Europe, has been managing nearly 20 Apache Cassandra clusters and was motivated to test ScyllaDB's performance in their environment after attending a previous summit. Their talk focused on achieving predictable and low response times, exploring both performance and administrative tasks, and they devised a hardware reduction plan suggesting that fewer ScyllaDB nodes could replace multiple Cassandra nodes. The discussion was aimed at system and database administrators, developers, and managers, with further information about their findings available only through direct contact on LinkedIn, as their internal tests were not published. The summit featured a range of talks and workshops, providing insights into the ScyllaDB roadmap and practical guidance for optimizing ScyllaDB clusters.