Is DataStax Astra DB’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?
- Astra DB has 95% lower staffing costs
- Astra DB requires 80% lower infrastructure costs
- Astra DB has 3x less complexity than self-managed Cassandra
- Astra DB can support the same throughput with lower p95 and p99 percentile latencies at a lower cost than self-managed Cassandra