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Load Balancing in Scylla Alternator
In a previous post, Comparing CQL and the DynamoDB API, I introduced Scylla — an open-source distributed database which supports two popular NoSQL APIs: Cassandra’s query language (CQL) and Amazon’s...
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FullContact: Improving the Graph by Transitioning to Scylla
In 2020, FullContact launched our Resolve product, backed by Cassandra. Initially, we were eager to move from our historical database HBase to Cassandra with its promises for scalability, high...
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Getting the Most out of Scylla University LIVE
We are thrilled to see how many people have pre-registered for our upcoming Scylla University LIVE event on April 22, 2021. To help you get the most out of your experience, I’ll add some links to...
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On Coordinated Omission
Many of us have heard of Coordinated Omission (CO), but few understand what it means, how to mitigate the problem, and why anyone should bother. Or, perhaps, this is the first time you have heard of...
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Connect Faster to Scylla with a Shard-Aware Port
In Scylla Open Source 4.3, we introduced a feature called shard-aware port. In addition to listening for CQL driver connections on the usual port (by default 9042), Scylla now also listens for...
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Incremental Compaction 2.0: A Revolutionary Space and Write Optimized...
Introduction Let’s go through a brief history of compaction strategies. It all started with Size Tiered strategy (STCS), which is optimized for writes. Later, it was realized that STCS has bad space...
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Project Circe April Update
Project Circe is ScyllaDB’s year-long initiative to make Scylla, already the best NoSQL database, even better. For the month of April we are going to take a look inside the organization and code base...
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Scylla Manager 2.3 Suspend & Resume
Scylla Manager 2.3 introduces a new mechanism to suspend and resume operations that can be used to implement maintenance windows or an off peak hours strategy. In this blogpost I will demonstrate how...
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Mapped: A New Way to Control Your Business via IIoT
Mapped launched their service this year to enable businesses to control and manage their facilities via a unified AI-powered data infrastructure platform. Their modular and extensible platform brings...
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Using Helm Charts to Deploy Scylla on Kubernetes
Modern deployments are kept as code, and it is very common that development, staging and production environments differ only in a few properties like allocated resources. When Kubernetes is used as...
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An Interview with Pekka Enberg: Modern Hardware, Old APIs
Pekka Enberg has been working on Scylla since before its inception in 2014. Prior to joining ScyllaDB he worked on a variety of technologies ranging from High Frequency Trading (HFT) backends through...
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Scylla Enterprise 2021
Scylla is pleased to announce the availability of Scylla Enterprise 2021, a production-ready Scylla Enterprise major release. After more than 2,500 commits originating from five open source releases,...
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Announcing the P99 CONF and Call for Speakers
At ScyllaDB we have found a common thread within our user base: the need for developers to create and maintain low-latency, high-performance, highly available applications that can readily, reliably...
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Zero to ~2M OPS in 5 Minutes on Scylla Cloud
Getting your database running at the right scale and speed to handle your growing business should not be complex or confusing. As I wrote in a previous blog post, capacity planning is not to be...
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What’s New at Scylla University – June 2021
Hands-on Labs for Scylla in Your Browser Scylla University now includes interactive labs that allow trainees to have an immediate hands-on experience with our products without requiring a local...
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Project Circe May Update
Project Circe is ScyllaDB’s year-long initiative to make Scylla, already the best NoSQL database, even better. We’re sharing our updates for the month of May 2021. Operational Improvements Better...
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Contextual Ads: Scylla at GumGum
We had the pleasure of hosting GumGum’s Keith Sader at our Scylla Summit this year. Keith began by giving some background by drawing from his career, which has spanned the adtech space at GumGum as...
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Scylla Operator: Ready for Production
At Scylla Summit earlier this year ScyllaDB Software engineer Maciej Zimnoch introduced our audience to Scylla Operator, the production-ready Kubernetes operator for our NoSQL database. Today we’ll...
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Grab App at Scale with Scylla
At Scylla Summit 2021, we were joined by two members of the engineering team at Grab, Chao Wang and Arun Sandu, who generously provided their insights into the ways that Grab is using Scylla to solve...
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Building Event Streaming Architectures on Scylla and Confluent with Kafka
Recently I had the privilege to host a webinar with some very good friends of ScyllaDB, including Numberly’s CTO Alexys Jacob and Chief Data Officer Othmane El Metioui, as well as Tim Berglund, the...
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