Cutting Database Costs: Lessons from Comcast, Rakuten & iFood

In an effort to reduce database costs and improve performance, several companies have successfully transitioned from traditional database systems to ScyllaDB, achieving significant savings and enhancements. Comcast replaced 962 Cassandra nodes with 78 ScyllaDB nodes, eliminating the need for 60 cache servers and cutting annual infrastructure costs by $2.5 million. Rakuten experienced a 2.5x reduction in infrastructure costs by reducing their node count from 24 to 6 and improving data processing efficiency with ScyllaDB's Incremental Compaction Strategy. Expedia achieved a 35% cost savings by replacing Redis and Cassandra with ScyllaDB, which provided consistent low latency and higher throughput. iFood moved from DynamoDB to ScyllaDB Cloud, reducing their database expenses from $54,000 to $6,000 while meeting their throughput requirements. These case studies highlight how employing a more efficient database solution like ScyllaDB can lead to substantial cost reductions and performance gains, particularly by leveraging its architecture to maximize hardware utility and reduce administrative overhead.