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Scylla’s Approach to Improve Performance for CPU-bound workloads
A database like Scylla can be limited by the network, disk I/O or the processor. Which one it is often dynamic and depends on both the hardware configuration and the workload. The only way of dealing...
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Survey Results: NoSQL Adoption for San Francisco Bay Area Amazon Web Services...
We’ve spent the first quarter of 2017 researching how developers build a wide range of mission-critical solutions. In our effort to better understand how open source solutions contribute to...
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An Interview with Christopher Quinones on the newest graph database, JanusGraph
This is a modified interview with Christopher Quinones, Project Lead, and Developer on Compose for JanusGraph, previously that was published on Compose.com Compose for JanusGraph is a fully managed,...
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Scylla release: version 1.7.2
The Scylla team is pleased to announce the release of Scylla 1.7.2, a bugfix release of the Scylla 1.7 stable branch. Release 1.7.2, like all past and future 1.x.y releases, is backward compatible and...
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Scylla Summit 2017: Calling All Speakers!
Do you have a great NoSQL story to share? Scylla Summit 2017 is coming to San Francisco on October 24-25, and the Call for Speakers is now open. The program will cover the NoSQL ecosystem, customer...
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Scylla release: version 1.6.6
The Scylla team is pleased to announce the release of Scylla 1.6.6, a bugfix release of the Scylla 1.6 stable branch. Note that the latest stable release is Scylla 1.7.2 and you are encouraged to...
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Why attend Scylla Summit 2017 in San Francisco?
We are excited to announce that Scylla Summit 2017 is coming to San Francisco October 24-25th. Scylla community members, users, and developers from the Cassandra project and other NoSQL technologies...
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Scylla Release 1.7.3
The Scylla team is pleased to announce the release of Scylla 1.7.3, a bugfix release of the Scylla 1.7 stable branch. Release 1.7.3, like all past and future 1.x.y releases, is backward compatible and...
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Materialized Views preview in Scylla 2.0
The developers of Scylla are working hard so that Scylla will not only have unparalleled performance (see our benchmarks) and reliability, but also have the features that our users want or expect for...
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Scylla Release 1.7.4
The Scylla team is pleased to announce the release of Scylla 1.7.4, a bugfix release of the Scylla 1.7 stable branch. Release 1.7.4, like all past and future 1.x.y releases, is backward compatible and...
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7 Reasons Why Not to Put a Cache in Front of Your Database
Originally published on The New Stack on July 28th, 2017. Recently AWS unleashed a managed cache solution, Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX), in front of it’s database. This blog will discuss the pros...
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Selecting Compression Chunk Sizes for Scylla
By default, Scylla SSTables will be compressed when they are written to disk. As mandated by the file format, data is compressed in chunks of a certain size – 4kB if not explicitly set. The size of...
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Data Analytics with Elasticsearch and Scylla
The combination of a database and full-text search analytics becomes unavoidable these days. In this blog post, I will demonstrate a simple way to analyze data from a database with analytics...
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Intel Optane Review
In mid-2015, Intel and Micron jointly unveiled a new kind of non-volatile memory storage device named 3D XPoint (pronounced “cross-point”) that is 1000x faster than NAND. Now that 3D XPoint is...
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Meet Scylla Developer Raphael Carvalho
Raphael S. Carvalho is a computer programmer here at ScyllaDB who loves open source software and kernel programming. He worked on the Syslinux project to bring new file system support and also worked...
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ScyllaDB in New York: AWS Summit and Database Month Meetup
Visit us at AWS Summit New York on August 14th: Demos, fun games, and cool swag! When: August 14 7:30 AM – 7:00 PM Where: Javits Center Register to attend Going to AWS Summit New York? Be sure to stop...
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Gocqlx: A Productivity Toolkit for Scylla in Go
Gocqlx is an extension to the Go Scylla / Apache Cassandra driver Gocql. It aims to boost developer productivity while not sacrificing query performance. It’s inspired by Sqlx, a tool for working with...
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Learn about our improvements on high percentile latencies at Scylla Summit 2017
I was pleased to sit down with Glauber Costa of ScyllaDB to learn more about his upcoming talk at Scylla Summit 2017. At Scylla Summit 2017, participants will join NoSQL developers and users from...
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mParticle Explains their Journey to Scylla at DB Month Meetup
mParticle and ScyllaDB attended The NoSQL & NewSQL Database Meetup at the AWS Loft in NYC. Yuan Ren from mParticle gave a nice presentation that explained their journey from Apache Cassandra to...
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2017 Q3 Apache Cassandra User Survey
To get a better picture of how Apache Cassandra is used, we surveyed 70 expert Apache Cassandra users who actively use Apache Cassandra for in-production workloads. Their workloads represent more than...
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