Numberly Shares 7 Lessons for Evaluating ScyllaDB

Numberly's Alexys Jacob shares his experience evaluating ScyllaDB for production, highlighting critical insights from his initial preparation phase with the ScyllaDB team. Originally using MongoDB, Numberly faced performance challenges due to its primary/secondary architecture's impact on write throughput and the complexity of setting up clusters. Jacob also considered Apache Cassandra but was concerned about Java-related issues like heap sizes and garbage collection. Opting for ScyllaDB, a C++-based NoSQL database, he found it more efficient for leveraging machine resources. His blog post offers valuable feedback on conducting a successful proof of concept (POC) and emphasizes the importance of clarity, monitoring, and understanding the distinction between POC and production environments. Jacob plans to share more technical details in the second installment of his series.