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...
View ArticleSay 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...
View Article>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...
View ArticleWhich Will Be the Best Wide Column Store?
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,...
View ArticleScyllaDB 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,...
View ArticleOverheard 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...
View ArticleStep-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...
View ArticleCassandra 4.0 vs. Cassandra 3.11: Comparing Performance
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...
View ArticleApache 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’s improvements over Cassandra 3.11. In part...
View ArticleP99 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...
View ArticleProject 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...
View ArticleDeploying 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...
View ArticleLinear 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...
View ArticleOlaCabs’ 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...
View ArticleWhat We’ve Learned after 6 Years of IO Scheduling
This post is by P99 CONF speaker Pavel Emelyanov, a developer at NoSQL database company ScyllaDB. To hear more from Pavel and many more latency-minded developers, register for P99 CONF today. Why...
View ArticleAWS 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...
View ArticleScylla Operator 1.5
The Scylla team is pleased to announce the release of Scylla Operator 1.5. Scylla Operator is an open-source project that helps Scylla Open Source and Scylla Enterprise users run Scylla on Kubernetes....
View ArticleHunting a NUMA Performance Bug
Arm-based computers are continuing to make inroads across both personal computing as well as cloud server spaces. From the Arm-based MacBooks you can use during your development stages, to the...
View ArticleOverheard at P99 CONF, Day One: Low-Latency Expert Insights
Only a specialized subset of engineers obsess over long-tail latencies — P99, P999, or even P9999 percentiles — and are truly fascinated by things like: Programming techniques like io_uring, eBPF, and...
View ArticleOverheard at P99 CONF, Day Two: Low-Latency Expert Insights — and Memes!
Throughput and latency might be in constant tension, but learning and liveliness certainly are not. Case in point: P99 CONF. Over the past two days, the conference took a deep dive into all things P99...
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