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Scylla Manager, Repair and Tombstones
Today we are sharing a lesson from Scylla University. At the bottom we provide a link to the hands-on lab. Scylla University is a fully free service provided by ScyllaDB to foster the NoSQL database...
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Behind the Scenes at the Scylla Developer Conference and Hackathon
Last year, our Scylla Developer Conference was a really special gathering where all of our developers came to the R&D Center in Israel for an intensive week of work and fun. We had interesting...
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Why Sizing is Hard
Adventures in building a performance model for a database Sizing is something that seems deceptively simple: take the size of your dataset and the required throughput and divide by the capacity of a...
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Dynamic Status Timeouts in Scylla Manager 2.2
Keeping Scylla clusters repaired and backed up are the two most important functions that Scylla Manager provides. But there is one more function that can be easily overlooked: probing clusters to...
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ScyllaDB Developer Hackathon: Scylla + S3
ScyllaDB’s internal developer conference and hackathon was very informative and productive. Here we’ll share with you the project we came up with, which involves implementing Binary Large Object...
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Scylla Summit Training Day 2021
As successful as our NoSQL training day was at last year’s user conference, we’re even more excited for our next one. With the virtual format for our upcoming Scylla Summit (January 12th to 14th), our...
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ScyllaDB Developer Hackathon: New IMR infrastructure
IMR stands for In Memory Representation and in the scope of this blog post we mean the in-memory representation of cells. You might be asking, why is this even something worth talking about? Why not...
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Jepsen and Scylla: Putting Consistency to the Test
At ScyllaDB, we take data consistency seriously. To ensure the correctness of our lightweight transaction implementation we developed a series of tests using Scylla’s existing and new tools, such as...
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ScyllaDB Developer Hackathon: Managing Scylla Using CQL
We had a lot of fun and learned a lot at Scylla’s internal developer conference and hackathon this year. For our hackathon project, we decided to create an API to manage a Scylla cluster using native...
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Scylla Summit 2021 Schedule Now Online
Scylla Summit is just around the corner! Next week (January 12th – 14th), we’ll hold a two-day virtual conference followed by a day of instructor-led training. All online. All free. We’ve published...
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Making Scylla a Monstrous Database: Introducing Project Circe
With more than 30,000 commits in Scylla and Seastar, 78 and 113 committers, respectively, and customers running Scylla in the wild supporting hundreds of million of users, empowering many...
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Overheard at Scylla Summit 2021, Day One
Scylla Summit 2021 was held online this year for the first time. Tuesday, January 12th was the first day of presentations, and included keynotes from ScyllaDB CEO and Co-Founder Dor Laor and Jepsen...
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Overheard at Scylla Summit 2021, Day Two
Based on our record attendance and your feedback, our first online Scylla Summit has been a rousing success! First, if you missed it, make sure you read the blog about Day One of Scylla Summit 2021....
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An Open Letter to the Scylla Community
We write this letter in response to recent news coverage of ScyllaDB terminating its support for social media platform Parler. We respect the confidentiality of our customers but since some of the...
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Scylla Open Source Release 4.3
The Scylla team is pleased to announce the release of Scylla Open Source 4.3, a production-ready release of our open source NoSQL database. Scylla is an open source, NoSQL database with superior...
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Here’s to the 2021 Scylla User Award Winners!
Each year, coinciding with our annual Scylla Summit, we name the winners of the Scylla User Awards. With Scylla Summit being a virtual event this year we were unable to gather the winners on stage...
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CockroachDB vs. Scylla Benchmark
An Apples and Oranges Comparison The database space has always been a complicated field that introduced many options and tradeoffs. Two particular classes of databases, NoSQL and NewSQL, have been...
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ScyllaDB Developer Hackathon: CQL Editor
This past year’s annual developer conference and hackathon went virtual. We had just come out from a lockdown at the time and I was still working from home. The hackathon looked like a welcome change....
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Project Circe January Update
When we announced Project Circe at this year’s Scylla Summit we pledged to keep the community apprised of our progress every month. We’ll kick things off this month by covering the work we’ve done to...
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Introducing the New Scylla Monitoring Advisor
Scylla Advisor is the newest member of the Scylla Monitoring stack. The Advisor focuses on highlighting important information, potential problems, configuration issues, and data model suggestions....
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