Learn How to Build a Time Series Database
What fascinates me most about databases is how they can be used for storing time series data. This use case is important for Internet of Things (IoT) devices and data analytics. Everyone should at...
View ArticleScyllaDB at Linux SCaLE 16x
We’re at Linux SCaLE 16x this week Stop by booth #219 at Linux SCaLE 16x at the Pasadena Convention Center where we’ll be running live demos of Scylla running different workloads. We’d love to discuss...
View ArticleScylla on Samsung NVMe Z-SSDs
Organizations are continuing to adopt Solid State Drives (SSD) in their data centers for optimal performance and lower latencies. With that in mind, it only makes sense to use them with a database...
View ArticleScylla Enterprise Release 2017.1.6
The Scylla team is pleased to announce the release of Scylla Enterprise 2017.1.6, a production-ready Scylla Enterprise minor release. Scylla Enterprise 2017.1.6 is a bug fix release for the 2017.1...
View ArticleKairosDB and Scylla: A Time Series Solution for Performance and Scalability
A highly available time-series solution requires an efficient tailored front-end framework and a backend database with a fast ingestion rate. KairosDB, a time-series database, provides a simple and...
View ArticleMutant Monitoring Systems (MMS) Day 6 – Multi-datacenter Replication
This is part 6 of a series of blog posts that provides a story arc for Scylla Training In the previous post, we learned how to visualize the data in the Mutant Monitoring System with Apache Zeppelin...
View ArticleScylla Release 2.1.1
The Scylla team is pleased to announce the release of Scylla 2.1.1, a bugfix release of the Scylla 2.1 stable branch. Release 2.1.1, like all past and future 2.x.y releases, is backward compatible and...
View ArticleMutant Monitoring Systems (MMS) Day 7 – Multi-datacenter Consistency Levels
This is part 7 of a series of blog posts that provides a story arc for Scylla Training. In the previous post, we learned what a multi-datacenter configuration is and expanded the initial Mutant...
View ArticleExploring Scylla on Kubernetes
In this blog post, we’ll start by describing Kubernetes, a system for automating application deployment and monitoring, discuss how some Kubernetes concepts map to those of Scylla, and provide a...
View Article12 Questions Answered on Building a Time-Series Database with KairosDB
We recently concluded testing and benchmarking Scylla with KairosDB. The settings and results of this work can be found in the blog post, KairosDB and Scylla: A Time-Series Solution for Performance...
View ArticleVoice of Experience: IMVU Switches from Redis to Scylla
A popular social community with more than 100,000 concurrent active users, IMVU enables people all over the world to interact with each other using 3D avatars on their desktops, tablets, and mobile...
View ArticleRole-based Access Control in Scylla
The next open-source release (version 2.2) of Scylla will include support for role-based access control. This feature was introduced in version 2.2 of Apache Cassandra. This post starts with an...
View ArticleVoice of Experience: IBM Graph Uncovers Advantages of Scylla
IBM had previously used only Apache Cassandra and HBase as storage back-ends for the graph databases it makes available on IBM Cloud. Having heard about the advantages of Scylla, IBM’s Open Tech and...
View ArticleVoice of Experience: Samsung SDS Chooses Scylla
Samsung SDS is a global IT services and solutions company with 57 offices spread across 31 countries. They are tasked with implementing highly performant and scalable systems for a number of Samsung...
View ArticleMutant Monitoring Systems (MMS) Day 8 – Monitoring
This is part 8 of a series of blog posts that provides a story arc for Scylla Training. In the past two posts, we expanded the Mutant Monitoring System across multiple datacenters and learned about...
View ArticleThe Scylla I/O Scheduler – Better Latencies Under Any Circumstance
One of the cornerstones of Scylla is the I/O Scheduler, described in details at the moment of its inception in a two-part series that can be found here (part 1) and here (part 2). In the two years in...
View ArticleScylla Release 2.1.2
The Scylla team is pleased to announce the release of Scylla 2.1.2, a bugfix release of the Scylla 2.1 stable branch. Release 2.1.2, like all past and future 2.x.y releases, is backward compatible and...
View ArticleAnnouncing Scylla Manager 1.1, a Production-Ready Release of Scylla Manager.
The Scylla team is pleased to announce the release of Scylla Manager 1.1, a production-ready release of Scylla Manager for Scylla Enterprise customers. Scylla Manager adds centralized cluster...
View ArticleWord from the Top: An Update from Our CEO
I’m pleased to announce that we’ve closed another round of funding for ScyllaDB. This latest round, which brings us to a total of $35M in funding, was preemptive. That is, we had an opportunity to...
View ArticleMutant Monitoring Systems (MMS) Day 9 – Interacting Programmatically
This is part 9 of a series of blog posts that provides a story arc for Scylla Training. In the previous post, we setup the Scylla Monitoring stack for the Mutant Monitoring System so we can monitor...
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