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Scylla Open Source Release 4.1
The Scylla team is pleased to announce the availability of Scylla Open Source 4.1.0, a production-ready release of our open source NoSQL database. Scylla is an open source, NoSQL database, with...
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Ask Me Anything with Avi Kivity
Recently we hosted the first of our new series of AMA sessions with ScyllaDB CTO Avi Kivity. Join our Meetup to be notified of the next AMA. Here’s how our first AMA went: Q: Would you implement...
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Backups with Scylla Manager
Scylla is a highly performant, scalable, distributable and reliable database. Yet even the most reliable of databases can suffer from catastrophic unplanned outages (such as in the underlying...
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Scylla Manager 2.1.1
The ScyllaDB team announces the release of Scylla Manager 2.1.1, a production-ready Scylla Manager patch release of the stable Scylla Manager 2.1 branch. As always, Scylla Manager customers and users...
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Scylla Enterprise Release 2019.1.10
The ScyllaDB team announces the release of Scylla Enterprise 2019.1.10, a production-ready Scylla Enterprise patch release. As always, Scylla Enterprise customers are encouraged to upgrade to Scylla...
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Getting the Most out of Lightweight Transactions in Scylla
Lightweight transactions (abbreviated as LWT) appeared in Cassandra back in 2012 when it was a revolutionary feature. Since that time we have seen various comparable implementations in other NoSQL...
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6 Reasons to Switch from DataStax to Scylla
Scylla and DataStax Enterprise have a common lineage in Apache Cassandra. Yet whereas DataStax built their enterprise product around the existing Java code base of Cassandra, Scylla is a complete...
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Scylla Virtual Workshops
Scylla Virtual Workshops are a way to deepen your understanding of our database and make you more productive with it. We began the series in May and hold workshop sessions twice per month. The format...
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Scylla Open Source Release 4.0.4
The ScyllaDB team announces Scylla Open Source 4.0.4, a bugfix release of the Scylla 4.0 stable branch. Scylla Open Source 4.0.4, like all past and future 4.x.y releases, is backward compatible and...
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Using Change Data Capture (CDC) in Scylla
Change Data Capture (CDC) allows users to track data updates in their Scylla database. While it is similar to the feature with the same name in Apache Cassandra and other databases, how it is...
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Scylla Open Source Release 4.1.2
The ScyllaDB team announces Scylla Open Source 4.1.2, a bugfix release of the Scylla 4.1 stable branch. Scylla Open Source 4.1.2, like all past and future 4.x.y releases, is backward compatible and...
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Stadia Maps: Using Scylla to Serve Maps in Milliseconds
Ian Wagner and Luke Seelenbinder were consulting with a perfectionist client who demanded an aesthetically beautiful map for their website. It also needed to render lightning fast and be easy to...
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Scylla Student Projects, Part I: Parquet
In 2019, ScyllaDB sponsored a program for Computer Science students organized by the University of Warsaw. Throughout the whole academic year, 3 teams of undergraduate students collaborated with and...
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IOTA: Using Scylla for distributed storage of the Tangle
This post explores how the IOTA Foundation integrated Scylla into its permanode software, Chronicle, to support real-world applications on the Tangle. Introduction to IOTA IOTA is an open-source...
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Scylla Enterprise Release 2020.1.0
The Scylla team is pleased to announce the release of Scylla Enterprise 2020.1.0, a production-ready Scylla Enterprise major release. After 5,568 commits originating from five open source releases,...
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Scylla Student Projects, Part II: Implementing an Async Userspace File System
Implementing a file system is a complex task, but contrary to popular belief it is not equivalent to writing a kernel module and implementing the full API specified and standardized by POSIX, with...
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One-Step Streaming Migration from DynamoDB into Scylla
Last year, we introduced the ability to migrate DynamoDB tables to Scylla’s Dynamo-compatible interface — Alternator. Using the Scylla Migrator, this allows users to easily transfer data stored in...
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CarePet: An Example IoT Use Case for Hands-On App Developers
We recently published CarePet, a project that demonstrates a generic Internet of Things (IoT) use case for Scylla. The application is written in Go and allows tracking of pets’ health indicators. It...
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AWS Outposts: Run Fully Managed NoSQL Workloads On-Premises Using Scylla
AWS Outposts are a fully managed on-premises extension of Amazon Web Services. It puts all of your familiar infrastructure and APIs available right in your own local environment. Ideal for low-latency...
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Seedless NoSQL: Getting Rid of Seed Nodes in Scylla
Nodes in a Scylla cluster are symmetric, which means any node in the cluster can serve user read or write requests, and no special roles are assigned to a particular node. For instance, no primary...
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