A web-based photo-sharing and printing service, Snapfish is dedicated to helping people transform their photos into beautiful personalized objects, such as photo books, mugs, prints and gifts that can be shared and treasured. On a typical day, Snapfish handles more than 1 million uploads. During the holiday season, that number can easily quadruple. These real-time numbers are compounded by backups, which have to move 40 billion files a year via 80,000 simultaneous reads and writes per minute, without impacting production workloads.
The NoSQL database platform in use at Snapfish wasn’t up to the task, so the team evaluated other options. Scylla hit Snapfish’s production throughput requirement of 3,000 read operations per second. The team saw even better results after moving to a 3-node Scylla cluster running on AWS. In the end, performance improved by 5X using Scylla as compared to MongoDB.
“What initially interested us is the number of concurrent operations that Scylla supports. In the end, Scylla turned out to be the fastest NoSQL out there.” Brent Williams, Principal Engineer, Snapfish
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