Is DataStax Astra DB&rsquo;s fully managed, serverless Cassandra-as-a-Service really more cost effective than managing your own Cassandra clusters? Analyst firm GigaOm conducted a comprehensive study in July 2022, comparing the 3-year TCO for Astra DB against that of self-managed Cassandra.
The GigaOm report examined the full cost and value of Astra DB and self-managed Apache Cassandra. Costs include dedicated compute hardware (for self-managed Cassandra), cost per read and write operation (on serverless Cassandra), storage growth (each write operation adds new data), and people cost in the three-year total cost of ownership calculations.
GigaOm found that serverless Astra DB reduces TCO by over 85% as compared to self-managed Cassandra!
How does Astra DB deliver these radical cost savings?&nbsp;
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<li>Astra DB has 95% lower staffing costs</li>
<li>Astra DB requires 80% lower infrastructure costs </li>
<li>Astra DB has 3x less complexity than self-managed Cassandra</li>
<li>Astra DB can support the same throughput with lower p95 and p99 percentile latencies at a lower cost than self-managed Cassandra</li>
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