ScyllaDB vs Apache Cassandra performance on low-end hardware report

The performance report compares ScyllaDB and Apache Cassandra on low-end hardware, revealing that ScyllaDB consistently outperforms Cassandra in various scenarios, despite the hardware constraints. ScyllaDB, a reimplementation of Apache Cassandra, is designed to be hardware-friendly and highly scalable, achieving up to 10 times better performance due to its efficient architecture. In tests involving data loading, read throughput, and latency under different conditions and workloads, ScyllaDB demonstrated superior performance, particularly in handling data ingestion and maintaining lower latency without creating compaction backlogs. Even when both databases were tested under disk-bound conditions, ScyllaDB showed a 68% advantage during concurrent read and write operations. These results highlight ScyllaDB's ability to maintain consistent performance and low latencies, outperforming Apache Cassandra even on constrained, low-end hardware configurations, and emphasize ScyllaDB's self-tuning capabilities that reduce the need for manual configuration adjustments.