Is Arm ready for server dominance?
For a long time, Arm processors have been the kings of mobile. But that didn’t make a dent in the server market, still dominated by Intel and AMD and their x86 instruction set. Major disruptive shifts...
View ArticleProject Gemini: An Open Source Automated Random Testing Suite for Scylla and...
Today we are releasing a new data integrity testing suite for the open source community. Those who will have the most direct utility for this software will be those testing Scylla and Cassandra...
View ArticleHow Scylla Scaled to One Billion Rows a Second
Scylla is a highly scalable, highly performant NoSQL database. But just how fast can fast get? And what happens when you run it on a bare metal cloud like Packet? We set out to design a test that...
View ArticleHow SkyElectric Uses Scylla to Power Its Smart Energy Platform
SkyElectric’s mission is “to provide sustainable energy to all” by revolutionizing how power is delivered for the world — “the great energy challenge of the 21st Century.” SkyElectric takes seriously...
View ArticleWhy MistAway Turned to Scylla Cloud for Its IoT Systems
Mosquitos in the United States are a major problem. Besides simply detracting from the enjoyment of outdoor activities, they can also pose serious health risks. Nearly 1,700 cases of malaria are...
View ArticleScylla Monitoring Stack 3.1
The Scylla team is pleased to announce the release of Scylla Monitoring Stack 3.1. Scylla Monitoring Stack is an open-source stack for monitoring Scylla Enterprise and Scylla Open Source, based on...
View ArticleScylla Enterprise Release 2019.1.4
The ScyllaDB team announces the release of Scylla Enterprise 2019.1.4, which is a production-ready Scylla Enterprise patch release. As always, Scylla Enterprise customers are encouraged to upgrade to...
View ArticleScyllaDB’s Top Blogs for 2019
As we look back at 2019, it was a year of growth and progress at ScyllaDB. Since we maintain an active blog site, we can track many of our highlights from the year in our blog posts. What was most...
View ArticleComcast: Sprinting from Cassandra to Scylla
Comcast’s Philip Zimich said on the stage at Scylla Summit 2019 that the Xfinity X1 platform saw such dramatically improved performance with Scylla over Apache Cassandra, especially on long-tail...
View ArticleMaximizing Disk Utilization with Incremental Compaction
Introduction “We found having about 50% free disk space is a good rule of thumb.” You’ve heard this advice since you first laid hands on Cassandra. And over time, we’ve all gotten used to it. Yet it...
View ArticleScylla Open Source Release 3.2
The Scylla team is pleased to announce the availability of Scylla Open Source 3.2.0, a production-ready release of our open source NoSQL database. Scylla Open Source 3.2 brings major new features...
View ArticleFanatics: Using Scylla for Online Order Capture
An online sports apparel powerhouse, Fanatics has to power a fleet of always-on scalable ecommerce sites listing wares for hundreds of sports franchises from over 1,000 vendors, and to track the...
View ArticleScylla Cloud Updates for January 2020
Scylla Cloud is a fully managed Database as a Service (DBaaS) from ScyllaDB. Scylla Cloud runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS) I3 instances which, when coupled with the performance of Scylla Enterprise,...
View ArticleScylla Manager 2.0
The Scylla Manager team is pleased to announce the release of Scylla Manager 2.0.1, a production-ready version of Scylla Manager for Scylla Enterprise and Scylla Open-Source customers. Scylla Manager...
View ArticleFireEye: Providing Real-Time Threat Analysis using a Graph Database
FireEye is a NASDAQ-traded cybersecurity firm that offers a broad portfolio ranging from a robust enterprise threat intelligence platform, hardware appliances to managed defenses and security...
View ArticleWe’re Honored to Receive the InfoWorld 2020 Technology of the Year Award
InfoWorld editors conducted independent research into various information technology domains and recognized 12 leading technologies for their 2020 Technology of the Year awards. ScyllaDB is honored to...
View ArticleScylla Summit 2019 Training Day, a Recap
Our training day at last year’s Scylla Summit had our biggest classes to date. With having all the material available online at Scylla University, hands-on exercises and quiz questions, trainees were...
View ArticleBut Don’t Take It from Us…
We’re always glad to hear about the innovative things our users are doing with Scylla and the benefits they’re getting. Our use cases come in all shapes and sizes–from very large organizations that...
View ArticleIntroducing the Kafka Scylla Connector
Apache Kafka is an increasingly foundational component of enterprise Big Data architectures. Data streaming and event-driven systems have rapidly supplanted batch-driven processes since Kafka was...
View ArticleScylla Open Source Release 3.1.3
The ScyllaDB team announces the release of Scylla Open Source 3.1.3, a bugfix release of the Scylla 3.1 stable branch. Scylla Open Source 3.1.3, like all past and future 3.x.y releases, is backward...
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