Case Study: FireEye accelerates threat analysis with ScyllaDB

FireEye accelerates threat analysis 1000% with ScyllaDB

FireEye, a cybersecurity company, faced significant scaling challenges with its Threat Intelligence application. Their legacy PostgreSQL-based graph database system was slow, difficult to scale, and not highly available, which hindered the performance of hundreds of analysts. To overcome this, they selected JanusGraph for their graph layer and needed a high-performance backend database, evaluating options including ScyllaDB.

FireEye implemented ScyllaDB as the backend for JanusGraph, which resulted in a 1000% performance increase for threat analysis queries. This solution provided exceptional performance, ease of management, and an 80% data compression rate. The measurable impact was profound: a report that previously required 1,500 analysts was completed by just 5 analysts in days, and AWS spending was reduced to 10% of the original cost. Based on this success, FireEye is expanding its use of ScyllaDB.

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