Natura’s Short and Straight Road from Cassandra to ScyllaDB

Natura, a leading Brazilian beauty products company with a global footprint, transitioned its data management system from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to ScyllaDB to enhance performance and reduce operational costs. With its massive operations spanning 70 countries and serving over 100 million consumers, Natura required a robust data infrastructure to handle the vast amounts of consumer data. The company, led by Big Data Engineer Felipe Moz, opted for ScyllaDB to overcome the performance issues faced with DSE, particularly related to JVM problems. The new architecture, which leverages technologies like NGINX, Node.js, Apache Kafka, and Apache Spark, enabled significant cost savings and performance improvements, with batch processing times reduced by up to 90% and streaming analytics sped up dramatically. The switch from DSE on Microsoft Azure to ScyllaDB on AWS resulted in over a 50% reduction in annual hardware expenses, while also achieving faster database performance, evidenced by a dramatic decrease in write latencies. ScyllaDB's enterprise support and lower costs provided Natura with a more efficient and scalable solution to support its extensive consumer network.