Scylla Summit 2021 Call for Speakers
Scylla Summit 2021 will be held as an online event this year, January 12 – 14, 2021. Our own sessions will showcase the latest Scylla features and capabilities, roadmap plans and the view from the top...
View ArticleScylla University: Coding with Scala, Part 1
This post is based on the Scylla Specific Drivers, Overview, Paging and Shard Awareness lesson in Scylla University, ScyllaDB’s free resource to learn NoSQL database development and Scylla...
View ArticleAppMonet: Painting the Digital Landscape with Scylla
AppMonet, based in the heart of New York City, connects mobile app developers with the largest brand advertisers and agencies for higher revenue through video ads. With one unified SDK, AppMonet...
View ArticleBuilding a Grafana Backend Plugin
Grafana is a great observability platform. One of its key strengths comes from its plugin system. (To give you an idea of how popular the extension of Grafana through plugins is, you can find the...
View ArticleC++ (Scylla) vs. Java’s ZGC/Shenandoah/G1
We’ve wanted to compare Scylla vs Cassandra 4.0 using the most tuned Java garbage collection in newer JVM. Luckily, Datastax did an extensive Cassandra Java benchmark, comparing multiple GC algorithms...
View ArticleMaking a Shard-Aware Python Driver for Scylla, Part 1
At the virtual Europython 2020 Conference in July, Alexys Jacob, CTO of Numberly gave a talk entitled A deep dive and comparison of Python drivers for Cassandra and Scylla. (He also gave the same...
View ArticleMaking a Shard-Aware Python Driver for Scylla, Part 2
This is the second part of a presentation given by Alexys Jacob, CTO of Numberly at the virtual Europython 2020 Conference in July, entitled A deep dive and comparison of Python drivers for Cassandra...
View ArticleMaking a Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Database System: Data Partitioning and...
Note to readers: this blog entry uses JavaScript to render LaTeX equations, make sure it’s enabled. Today’s databases commonly store terabytes to petabytes of data and handle hundreds of thousands to...
View ArticleSleeper: Using Scylla to Level the Playing Field
In the world of fantasy sports apps there are many big players you’ve likely already heard of. The folks at Sleeper should be added to that list. In an industry where many competitive online games are...
View ArticleYou’re Invited to Scylla Summit 2021!
It’s free, It’s online. It’s the NoSQL event of the new year! Scylla Summit is the best opportunity for database monsters of the world to connect! Our next summit is a free, online virtual event...
View ArticleA Haunted House of NoSQL Horrors
True-life tales of what not to do to your database! Halloween is that frightening time of the year when the veil between the well-ordered world of DevOps and the dark chthonic void of dev/null is...
View ArticleScylla Open Source Release 4.2
The Scylla team is pleased to announce the release of Scylla Open Source 4.2, a production-ready release of our open source NoSQL database. Scylla is an open source, NoSQL database with superior...
View ArticleHow to Test and Benchmark Database Clusters
In our recent webinar VP of Solutions Eyal Gutkind and Solutions Architect Moreno Garcia presented on how users perform benchmarks and real-life workload simulations in their environments. Their roles...
View ArticleSubmit Today for the 2020 Scylla User Awards!
We love to see the amazing things our users are doing with Scylla. Our Scylla User Awards will honor accomplishments and contributions across ten categories this year. What stands out about your use...
View ArticleScylla Manager Supports Google Cloud Storage
Scylla Manager automates the backup process and allows you to configure how and when backups occur. Until now, Scylla Manager supported only AWS S3 compatible APIs as a backup storage. Starting with...
View ArticleUsing Grafana Loki 2.0 as an Alert Source
Grafana Loki is Grafana’s tool for log aggregation and reporting. Loki 2.0 was just released with many enhancements so I took it for a spin. One of the nice things with the new release is the ability...
View ArticleScylla Manager 2.2: Repair Revisited
We released Scylla Manager 1.0 to help our users manage repairs in February 2018. Since then a lot of things have changed. We added the row-level repair to Scylla Open Source NoSQL Database, and to...
View ArticleScylla Student Projects, Part III: Kafka Client for Seastar and Scylla
Apache Kafka is a well-known distributed message queue, used by thousands of companies. Developers love its scalability, performance, fault tolerance, and an entire ecosystem of clients, connectors,...
View ArticleScylla University: Coding with Scala, Part 2
This post is based on the Scylla Specific Drivers, Overview, Paging and Shard Awareness lesson in Scylla University, ScyllaDB’s free resource to learn NoSQL database development and Scylla...
View ArticleScylla Summit 2021 Speakers Announced
Scylla Summit is the annual opportunity for our community, our partners, our engineers and staff to all meet, mingle and learn from each other. Of course, this year Scylla Summit will be a virtual...
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