mParticle Discusses Their Journey from Cassandra to Scylla at Scylla Summit 2017
Choosing a new database solution for your organization is not an easy task, requiring large amounts of human resources and testing. Nayden Kolev of mParticle has done this many times in the past and...
View ArticleSpotinst on Saving Thousands by Running Scylla on EC2 Spot
I am here with more great news from the upcoming Scylla Summit 2017. I had a wonderful opportunity to speak with Amiram Shachar of Spotinst to learn more about his upcoming talk. Organizations are...
View ArticleWhat you’ll learn at Pre-Summit Scylla Training, plus how to reduce traffic...
Solution Architects play a major role in an organization because they help get customers up and running and ensures that customers will be successful in their deployments. I had the lucky opportunity...
View ArticleHow Intel and Scylla Provide the Speed of an In-memory Database with Persistency
Intel Optane drives are going to revolutionize the data center by providing lower latencies and higher throughput. That being said, I can already think of a few ways on how it will benefit Scylla...
View ArticleSamsung Discusses the Z-SSD Low-latency Drive with Scylla at Scylla Summit 2017
SSD’s are continuing to revolutionize the datacenter with low latencies and exceptional performance. Arash Rezaei from Samsung Semiconductor sat down with me for a quick interview on his upcoming talk...
View ArticleDifferent I/O Access Methods for Linux, What We Chose for Scylla, and Why
When most server application developers think of I/O, they consider network I/O since most resources these days are accessed over the network: databases, object storage, and other microservices. The...
View ArticleHow to Choose the Right Compaction Strategy for Workload Performance
Choosing the right compaction strategy is crucial for having optimal performance on a Scylla cluster. In this interview with Nadav Har’El of ScyllaDB, we will learn more about compaction and his...
View ArticleScylla Release 2.0
Check out the new Scylla Release! The Scylla team is pleased to announce the release of Scylla 2.0, a production-ready Scylla major release. Scylla is an open source NoSQL database compatible with...
View ArticleChris Bannister Discusses GoCQL at Scylla Summit 2017
GoCQL provides an efficient way to interact with Scylla with Golang applications. For example, GoCQL automatically discovers all data centers, racks and hosts in your cluster, manages a pool of...
View ArticleZenly Discusses Going from Elasticsearch to Scylla at Scylla Summit 2017
Building the infrastructure for a mobile application that reaches millions of users is not an easy task and the folks at Zenly seem to know exactly what they are doing. I enjoy talking to experts in...
View ArticleAnnouncing Scylla Fault Tolerance Documentation
What happens if a catastrophe occurs in or between your data centers? What if a node goes down or becomes unreachable for any reason? Scylla’s fault tolerance features significantly mitigate the...
View ArticleWhy, how, and when to use Secondary Indexing at Scylla Summit 2017
An index in a database provides an easier and faster way to access data by using attributes. The end-user experience will result in faster matching and queries. In Scylla, there are different indexes...
View ArticleIntel Discusses the Advantages of Optane SSDs at Scylla Summit 2017
Frank Ober of Intel joined me for a quick interview on what he will be presenting at Scylla Summit 2017. Frank, like many other speakers attending the Summit, is an expert in his field and will...
View ArticleLearn About GoCQLX, How to Use It, and Common Use Cases at Scylla Summit 2017
Programming libraries empower developers to enhance their applications with additional features such as providing connectivity to databases. Not every library is the same but if it is open source, the...
View ArticleOur Acquisition of Seastar.io DBaaS Technology
In case you missed the news, on Tuesday we announced our acquisition of Seastar.io database-as-a-service technology from our partner Network Redux. This acquisition was in response to the growing...
View ArticleHighlights from Scylla Summit Day One
We had a great first day at Scylla Summit 2017, with highly technical talks by presenters from around the globe, lots of valuable networking, and some time for fun. We kicked things off with our CEO...
View ArticleHighlights from Scylla Summit Day Two
ScyllaDB is all about performance, so it’s no surprise that this was the theme of day two at our Scylla Summit. Joseph Fullop of Los Alamos National Labs kicked things off with a discussion on the...
View ArticleScalable, Distributed Secondary Indexing in Scylla
The data model in Scylla and Apache Cassandra partitions data between cluster nodes using a partition key, which is defined by the database schema. Using a partition key provides an efficient way to...
View ArticleLearn Consistency Level in Scylla with Our Console Demo
In previous documentation installments, you’ve learned about Scylla’s ring architecture and you’ve dug into our fault tolerance documentation. Ready to get your hands dirty? Our consistency level...
View ArticleNew Docs: 4 Phases to Migrate from Apache Cassandra to Scylla
Apache Cassandra may have served you well. But alas, nothing is ever perfect, so you’re looking to migrate. Typically sub-millisecond consistency, performance of various operations, compaction, as well...
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