New Maintenance Releases: Scylla Open Source 3.0.1 and 2.3.2
Today we are announcing two software maintenance releases for Scylla Open Source: Scylla 3.0.1 The Scylla team announces the release of Scylla Open Source 3.0.1, a bugfix release of the Scylla Open...
View ArticleScylla SSTable 3.0 Can Decrease File Sizes 50% or More
Scylla Open Source 3.0 ships with a new format for on-disk representation, SSTable 3.0. In this article, we will discuss some of the benefits that emerge from the adoption of this format and the...
View ArticleScylla Monitoring Stack 2.1
The Scylla team is pleased to announce the release of Scylla Monitoring Stack 2.1. Scylla Monitoring is an open source stack for monitoring Scylla Enterprise and Scylla Open Source, based on...
View ArticleMeshify and Scylla: an Industrial-Strength IoT Solution
This is a story about the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). But one that began long before the Internet was invented. It was early afternoon on March 2nd, 1854, when a careless accident led to the...
View ArticleScylla Open Source Release 3.0.2
The Scylla team announces the release of Scylla Open Source 3.0.2, a bugfix release of the Scylla Open Source 3.0 stable branch. Scylla Open Source 3.0.2, like all past and future 3.x.y releases, is...
View ArticleScylla Manager Now Available for Scylla Open Source Users
Today we announce the release of Scylla Manager 1.3.1, a management system that automates maintenance tasks on a Scylla cluster. This release provides support for encrypted CQL communication with...
View ArticleMoving from Cassandra to Scylla via Apache Spark: The Scylla Migrator
Welcome to a whole new chapter in our Spark and Scylla series! This post will introduce the Scylla Migrator project – a Spark-based application that will easily and efficiently migrate existing...
View ArticleScylla Users Share Their Stories
“It worked out of the box. We didn’t have to tune anything. It was all just easy.” — Derek Ramsey, Sensaphone Our favorite and most important discussions are always with our users. They tell us about...
View ArticleScylla Open Source Release 3.0.3
The Scylla team announces the release of Scylla Open Source 3.0.3, a bugfix release of the Scylla Open Source 3.0 stable branch. Scylla 3.0.3, like all past and future 3.x.y releases, is backward...
View ArticleThe Complex Path for a Simple Portable Python Interpreter, or Snakes on a...
We needed a Python interpreter that can be shipped everywhere. You won’t believe what happened next! “When I said I wanted portable Python, this is NOT what I meant!” In theory, Python is a portable...
View ArticleScylla Enterprise Release 2018.1.10
The Scylla team is pleased to announce the release of Scylla Enterprise 2018.1.10, a production-ready Scylla Enterprise minor release. Scylla Enterprise 2018.1.10 is a bug fix release for the 2018.1...
View ArticleValuStor — a memcached alternative built on Scylla
Derek Ramsey, Software Engineering Manager at Sensaphone, gave an overview of ValuStor at Scylla Summit 2018. Sensaphone is a maker of remote monitoring solutions for the Industrial Internet of Things...
View ArticleScylla Open Source Release 2.3.3
The Scylla team announces the release of Scylla Open Source 2.3.3, a bugfix release of the Scylla Open Source 2.3 stable branch. Release 2.3.3, like all past and future 2.3.y releases, is backward...
View ArticleIn-Memory Scylla, or Racing the Red Queen
“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!” — The Red Queen to Alice, Alice...
View ArticleIntroducing Scylla University
So you’re thinking of running your applications with Scylla? You’ve probably heard it’s a lightning fast, self-optimizing, highly available Apache Cassandra drop-in replacement. Yet you may still have...
View ArticleTantan Connects with Scylla to Help Singles Find Their Closest Match
About TantanTantan is a locality-based dating app that provides a venue for people to connect and expand their social circles. More than 160 million men and women have used Tantan to chat, form new...
View ArticleScylla and Elasticsearch, Part Two: Practical Examples to Support Full-Text...
We covered the basics of Elasticsearch and how Scylla is a perfect complement for it in part one of this blog. Today we want to give you specific how-tos on connecting Scylla and Elasticsearch,...
View ArticleDeep Dive into the Scylla Spark Migrator
Another week, another Spark and Scylla post! This time, we’re back again with the Scylla Spark Migrator; we’ll take a short tour through its innards to see how it is implemented. Read why we...
View ArticleFrom SAP to Scylla: Tracking the Fleet at GPS Insight
“Scylla is the ideal database for IoT in the industry right now. Especially without the garbage collection that Cassandra has. Small footprint. It just does what you need it to do.” — Doug Stuns, GPS...
View ArticleScylla Enterprise Release 2018.1.11
The ScyllaDB team announces the release of Scylla Enterprise 2018.1.11, a production-ready Scylla Enterprise minor release. Scylla Enterprise 2018.1.11 is a bug fix release for the 2018.1 branch, the...
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