This project implements a CustomDataStore for Yugabyte YCQL databases, offering an alternative storage option that leverages Yugabyte's high performance, distributed reliability, and simple cloud-native operation.

Our primary problem with Apache Cassandra was that we found various reliability problems (workflow corruption, latency degradation requiring pod restarts, etc) that were impacting our product. Switching to Yugabyte solved our reliability issues and performed better in quantifiable terms (state transitions per second, latency, etc.). We also feel that Yugabyte is easier to operate than Apache Cassandra, but this assessment is more subjective.