Leading Chat Service Consolidates on ScyllaDB NoSQL Database, Migrating Its Production Data off MongoDB and Apache Cassandra
PALO ALTO, CALIF. — July 22, 2020 — ScyllaDB today announced that Discord is migrating its production data to the ScyllaDB Enterprise NoSQL database. By moving to ScyllaDB, Discord is standardizing on a more stable and reliable database, reducing its data footprint, increasing system performance and realizing a significant reduction in total cost of ownership (TCO) compared to its previous data infrastructure.
Founded in 2015, Discord is a voice, video and text communications service. Today, Discord has more than 100 million monthly active users on its service.
“We trust ScyllaDB’s speed and reliability to help with some of our most business-critical use cases including all of our core product experience, our anti-abuse systems and more,” said Mark Smith, Discord’s Director of Infrastructure. “As Discord has grown over the last five years, ScyllaDB has been able to scale with us. We have found it highly performant, and where we saw latency spikes with other databases, we now experience consistent low single-digit latencies with ScyllaDB.”
The Discord team was able to confidently deploy their services on ScyllaDB thanks to ScyllaDB’s straightforward control surfaces for installation, configuration and monitoring.
“You don’t choose how to configure ScyllaDB,” added Smith. “Instead, you run tools that output config files. ScyllaDB provides a baseline that simplifies the whole process and reduces risk and anxiety. Once in production, rather than rely on constant human intervention, ScyllaDB becomes self-tuning, dynamically adapting to real-world workloads.”
“Given Discord’s broad adoption and the respect it has earned from its user community, we are delighted that ScyllaDB is able to help them deliver reliable, real-time services at global scale that keep people connected and happy,” said Dor Laor, ScyllaDB’s founder and CEO. “We’re equally pleased that ScyllaDB has contributed to the well-being of Discord’s engineers and managers.”
