Originally from the User Slack
@sandr8: Is hosting and operating open-source Scylla as stressful as it is to host and operate Cassandra? Or are many of the culprits taken care of in a better way in Scylla? Any personal experience?
@dor: It’s less. Compaction is a solved problem. There is no GC, etc. The operational complexity as a whole is reduced. Still, you do need to be an expert for an always-on distributed DB
@sandr8: doesn’t the new compaction strategy require enterprise licensing? Also: wouldn’t there always be scary situations related to tombstones and nodes being down?
@dor: ICS does require an enterprise license but you can use LCS, TWCS and STCS for free and compaction works better than cassandra there too
When nodes are down, it’s not easy but it still supposed to be better than C*. Especially now that we got Raft’s consistent topology in place
@sandr8: :gratitude_thank_you: