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Cloning a Database Cluster with Scylla Manager Backup
Cloning a database cluster is probably the most common usage of backup data. This process can be very useful in case of a catastrophic event — say you were running in a single DC and it just burnt...
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Project Circe June Update
Summer’s here! Which means that we’re getting ready for our Scylla University LIVE Summer School session. We hope to meet you all there. Meanwhile, behind the scenes we’ve been diligently working to...
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DynamoDB Autoscaling Dissected: When a Calculator Beats a Robot
This post aims to help selecting the most cost effective and operationally simple configuration of DynamoDB tables. TLDR; Choosing the Right Mode Making sense of the multitude of scaling options...
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Scylla Rust Driver Update and Benchmarks
Scylla Rust Driver was born during Scylla’s internal developer hackathon. The effort did not stop after the hackathon though — the development continued and Scylla Rust Driver is now released as...
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Getting Ready for Scylla University LIVE Summer School
The upcoming Scylla University LIVE event is right around the corner. In this blog post, I’ll share more details about the different talks and how you can prepare for the event to help you get the most...
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Say Hello to Scylla Cloud BYOA
Like countless other organizations, you are probably already running various cloud services on AWS. You’re running all kinds of compute instances, and using a bunch of other AWS services besides...
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>30 Developers to Share Insights on Application Performance at P99 CONF
We’re always excited to talk about our database. But we are also eager to speak to the underlying challenges, techniques, and movements around high performance architectures. After all, our founding...
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Which Will Be the Best Wide Column Store Database?
This past week Cassandra 4.0 was finally released as GA, six years after the previous major release. Initially developed as an open source alternative to Amazon DynamoDB and Google Cloud Bigtable,...
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ScyllaDB Brings Scylla Cloud to Google Cloud
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Scylla Cloud on Google Cloud. Scylla Cloud is our resilient, highly performant, fully managed NoSQL database-as-service (DBaaS). Since its release,...
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Overheard at Scylla University LIVE Summer Session
Last week we hosted the Scylla University LIVE Summer Session virtual training. It was held on two consecutive days, one more convenient for EMEA timezones and another for the Americas. Attendance was...
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Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Started with Scylla Cloud
More and more teams are choosing our Scylla Cloud as their database-as-a-service. To make this transition even easier, in this post we’ll go step-by-step into what it takes to get your Scylla Cloud...
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Cassandra 4.0 vs. Cassandra 3.11: Performance Comparison
This is part one of a two-part blog series on the relative performance of the recently released Apache Cassandra 4.0. In this post we’ll compare Cassandra 4.0 versus Cassandra 3.11. In part two of...
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Apache Cassandra 4.0 vs. Scylla 4.4: Comparing Performance
This is part two of a two-part blog series on the relative performance of the recently released Apache Cassandra 4.0. In part one, we compared Cassandra 4.0 vs. Cassandra 3.11. In part two we will...
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P99 CONF Agenda Now Online
P99 CONF is the conference for low-latency high-performance distributed systems. An event by engineers for engineers, P99 CONF brings together speakers from across the tech landscape spanning all...
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Project Circe August Update
Project Circe is ScyllaDB’s year-long initiative to improve Scylla consistency and performance. Today we’re sharing our updates for the month of August 2021. Toward Scylla “Safe Mode” Scylla is a very...
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Deploying Scylla Operator with GitOps
There are many approaches to deploying applications on Kubernetes clusters. As there isn’t a clear winner, scylla-operator tries to support a wide range of deployment methods. With Scylla Operator 1.1...
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Linear Algebra in Scylla
So, we all know that Scylla is a pretty versatile and fast database with lots of potential in the real-time applications, especially ones involving time series. We’ve seen Scylla doing the heavy...
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OlaCabs’ Journey with Scylla
OlaCabs is a mobility platform, providing ride sharing services spanning 250+ cities across India, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. OlaCabs is just one part of the overall Ola brand, which also...
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What We’ve Learned after 6 Years of IO Scheduling
Why Scheduling at All? Scheduling requests of any kind always serves one purpose — gain control over priorities of those requests. In the priorities-less system one doesn’t need to schedule; just...
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AWS Graviton2: Arm Brings Better Price-Performance than Intel
Since the last time we took a look at Scylla’s performance on Arm, its expansion into the desktop and server space has continued: Apple introduced its M1 CPUs, Oracle Cloud added Ampere Altra-based...
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