Henrik Johansson, senior developer at Eniro, gives a glowing review of the ScyllaDB database system for its part of a microservice-based pipeline used at the Swedish search and directory assistance company where he works.
Eniro initially used Redis for what seemed like a simple task: relate a large set of transient identifiers A to another large set of other identifiers B. Its previous experience with MongoDB and PostgreSQL had brought problems with scaling though, and though Redis was fast and stable for a time with this project, latency eventually became a problem.
A combination of the programming language Go, the web framework Echo, the open source messaging system NATS and ScyllaDB proved fast, with low latency and requiring no extra tuning, he explained in a blog post.
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