ScyllaDB Pricing

Fully managed SaaS offering by ScyllaDB on the following platforms, the quick start guide can be found here.

Bring your own account is the ability to run the database-as-a-service (DBaaS) deployment in your cloud account. All of the compute, storage, permissions and networking modes are yours. Access is granted to ScyllaDB for remote management of the control plane.

Active-active regional zones (AZs)  mirrors for ring clusters without additional components to be purchased separately.

Active-active multi-regional and global replication does not require different architectures or additional components to be purchased separately.

OnDemand and Provisioning pricing options are available.  Annual contracts or longer contracts with larger allocations receive significant discounts.

See the cloud support policy table for key definitions and differences between tiers.  Note, you cannot unbundle cloud product and service support tiers.  Upgrading one upgrades the other and vice versa.

Expected uptime, see the ScyllaDB Cloud SLA for details.

P1 Business Hours (H) / P2 Business Hours or Day(s) /P3 Business Hours or Days /P4 Business Hours or Days.

ScyllaDB SRE personnel will provide proactive performance optimization/data modeling and customized alerts against several key metrics to ensure proper operation and recommend improvements.

Standard desktop and mobile messaging system.

Similar though superior to Cassandra and DynamoDB, it’s a wide column NoSQL database architecture, using partition and clustering (ordering) keys. Learn more about the architecture here.

Configurable and scalable ring architecture, multi-node clusters, deployed to a single AZ (not in Standard Tier) across AZs and regions.  Partitions are mapped to shards and distributed automatically.

Unlike other comparable NoSQL DBaaS offerings, ScyllaDB fully optimizes the use of multi-core CPUs and NUMA servers.  Learn more about how we run millions of operations per second at sub-msec average latencies.

ScyllaDB allocates and pins memory to single-threaded shards on each node to optimize memory use in its Memtable and Row-Based Cache, giving it the speed of memory caches like Redis – but parallelized and free of contentious lock coordination, resulting in higher throughput.

ScyllaDB provides configurable, tunable data consistency where data written to any node will eventually be dynamically sharded, with each shard replicated based on the replication factor and distributed across the cluster – all without developer intervention or app awareness required.

Similar to Apache Cassandra, ScyllaDB uses an SSTable internal file model (append-only) and, therefore, requires ongoing repair operations to be implemented.  ScyllaDB continues to optimize these to reduce the bandwidth consumed in running them, as well as base and peak memory consumption used.

ScyllaDB cloud uses Apache Cassandra Query language and data model BUT implemented in C++ and optimized for ScyllaDB’s close-to-the-metal design and operation.

Track and log all changes made to any table in any Keyspace for data replication, migration, and a range of other use cases. Drivers are available for its use in Java, Go, and Rust.

All ScyllaDB drivers are modern, feature-rich, and shard-aware, each supporting a different key programming language, including C++, Java, Python, Go, and Rust.

The connector allows you to use Apache Kafka and the Confluent platform while taking advantage of ScyllaDB’s underlying shard-per-core, shared-nothing architecture.

ScyllaDB supports the CQL binary protocol version 3, so any Apache Cassandra/CQL driver that implements the same version works with ScyllaDB, for example, Spark-based applications can use CQL drivers OOTB to work with ScyllaDB.

The Terraform ScyllaDB Cloud Provider is a plugin that allows Terraform to manage resources on ScyllaDB Cloud. To learn more, see the ScyllaDB Cloud Provider documentation at Terraform and the terraform-provider-scylladbcloud project on GitHub.

ScyllaDB uses Prometheus open source monitoring and an SSL proxy to extract and send all the details of operation seen by the ScyllaDB Monitoring Stack to other 3rd party Observability services (e.g. Datadog, AppDynamics, New Relic, and many others).

When ScyllaDB Enterprise Encryption at Rest is used together with Encryption in Transit (Node to Node and Client to Node), you benefit from end-to-end data encryption.  The combination protects the privacy of your user’s data, reduces the risk of data breaches, and helps meet regulatory requirements. In particular, it provides an additional level of protection for your data persisted in storage or its backups.

ScyllaDB Cloud undergoes independent third-party audits to confirm that it meets strict industry standards for security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy. Current certifications also include ISO 27000.

BYOK provides encryption at rest with the customer-provided AWS KMS encrypted key generation services.

Auditing allows the administrator to monitor activities on a ScyllaDB cluster, including queries and data changes. The information is stored in a Syslog or a ScyllaDB table.

Secure VPC deployment through network peering connections and private endpoints for AWS and Google VPC that avoid the use of Public IP addresses (though Public IP use for PoC/demos is ok).

Options for client-access and cross data center VPCs with shared billing, shared VPC peering and rules-based routing and, transit gateways, eliminating the complexity involved with creating and managing multiple VPC peering connections at scale

Options for single zone operation, change your instance type,  availability zone, or region it resides in.

Streaming network compression can reduce your network surcharges by up to a factor of three.

ScyllaDB user management is performed by an admin-designated role with the ability to access and manage cluster, billing, and user administration.

SAML-based Single Sign-On is a premium-only feature set, activated in conjunction with your technical account manager.  For more on this feature, see the documentation here.

Templated but customizable dashboards and alert-based, event-driven, monitoring of all operational aspects of your ScyllaDB workloads.

ScyllaDB Cloud periodically performs cluster maintenance, including database upgrades and functionality enhancements. Professional and Premium plans allow you to specify your maintenance windows at a preferred time of day.

ScyllaDB Cloud runs a full daily backup of your databases. It backs up data to external storage – Cloud Storage for GCP or S3 for AWS, to an S3 bucket in the same region as the node. If you use ScyllaDB Cloud in your own AWS account (BYOA), the backups are located under your user account.