Astra DB’s Third “Serverless-versary”

DataStax is celebrating the three-year anniversary of its serverless database, Astra DB, which separates compute and storage for a massively scalable, cloud-native solution. The addition of vector search capabilities has made it easier to support generative AI applications. In a recent study commissioned by DataStax, GigaOm benchmarked Astra DB's performance and TCO against Pinecone's vector database, finding that Astra DB delivers superior performance and cost-efficiency with up to 80% lower TCO over three years. This significant cost advantage is due in part to the ability for applications to query data concurrently while ingesting and indexing without needing to pause queries to rebuild indexes.