Eliminating Volatile Latencies: Inside Rakuten’s NoSQL Migration
Rakuten is a Japanese online shopping powerhouse, responsible for $15 billion in annual sales. It is one of the most frequented sites in the world. To keep it operational throughout the year, and...
View ArticleNew ScyllaDB Enterprise Support and Versioning
Starting with ScyllaDB Enterprise 2022.x we will introduce an Enterprise Feature (Minor) Release, which will closely follow the Open Source release’s latest features set. Support for annual...
View ArticleDistributed Data Systems Masterclass: What to Expect
The world has changed quite a bit in the past decade. Many of us are old enough to remember when it was totally acceptable to do nightly data synchronization using batch processing between disparate...
View ArticleHow Palo Alto Networks Replaced Kafka with ScyllaDB for Stream Processing
Global cybersecurity leader Palo Alto Networks processes terabytes of network security events each day. They analyze, correlate, and respond to millions of events per second– many different types of...
View ArticleP99 CONF 2022 Registration Now Open, Speakers Announced
P99 CONF is the event for engineers who care about P99 percentiles and high-performance, low-latency applications. This free, virtual conference was created by engineers for engineers. P99 CONF brings...
View ArticleAnnouncing ScyllaDB University LIVE, Summer 2022
I’m happy to announce our upcoming ScyllaDB University LIVE Summer Session, taking place on Thursday, July 28th, 8AM-12PM PDT! REGISTER NOW ScyllaDB University LIVE is a free, online, half-day,...
View ArticleNumberly: Learning Rust the Hard Way for Kafka + ScyllaDB in Production
Alexys Jacob is CTO of Numberly, a French digital data marketing powerhouse whose experts and systems help brands connect with their customers using all digital channels available. The developer...
View ArticleWhy Disney+ Hotstar Replaced Redis and Elasticsearch with ScyllaDB Cloud
Disney+ Hotstar, India’s most popular streaming service, accounts for 40% of the global Disney+ subscriber base. Disney+ Hotstar offers over 100,000 hours of content on demand, as well as livestreams...
View ArticlePreventing Data Resurrection with Repair Based Tombstone Garbage Collection
Delayed repairs can lead to a data resurrection problem, where deleted data come back to life. In this post, I explain a novel way that ScyllaDB removes this limitation: deleting tombstones based on...
View ArticleIntroducing ScyllaDB Open Source 5.0
With the release of ScyllaDB Open Source 5.0, we’ve introduced a set of noteworthy production-ready new features – foremost of which is including support for the AWS EC2 I4i line of servers powered by...
View ArticleScyllaDB V: NoSQL Innovations for Extreme Scale
ScyllaDB is recognized for a number of things. Our KVM roots. A database built on Seastar’s shard-per-core architecture that enables unprecedented performance with unparalleled hardware efficiency....
View ArticleBenchmarking Petabyte-Scale NoSQL Workloads with ScyllaDB
With the rise of real-time applications reading and writing petabytes of data daily, it’s not surprising that database speed at scale is gaining increased interest. Even if you’re not planning for...
View ArticleGetting the Most out of ScyllaDB University LIVE Summer School 2022
ScyllaDB University LIVE Summer Session for 2022 is right around the corner, taking place on Thursday, July 28th, 8AM-12PM PDT! REGISTER NOW As a quick reminder, ScyllaDB University LIVE is a FREE,...
View ArticleNoSQL Summer Blockbusters: From Wrangling Rust to HA Trial by Fire
With summer blockbusters returning in full force this year, maybe you’re on a bit of binge-watching, popcorn-munching kick? If your tastes veer towards the technical, we’ve got a marquee full of...
View ArticleImplementing a New IO Scheduler Algorithm for Mixed Read/Write Workloads
Introduction Being a large datastore, ScyllaDB operates many internal activities competing for disk I/O. There are data writers (for instance memtable flushing code or commitlog) and data readers...
View ArticleIntroducing ScyllaDB Enterprise 2022.1
ScyllaDB is pleased to announce the availability of ScyllaDB Enterprise 2022.1, a production-ready ScyllaDB Enterprise major release. After more than 6,199 commits originating from five open source...
View ArticlePerformance Engineering Masterclass for Optimizing Distributed Systems: What...
Performance engineering in distributed systems is a critical skill to master. Because while it’s one thing to get massive terabyte-to-petabyte scale systems up and running, it’s a whole other thing to...
View ArticleScyllaDB Student Projects: CQL-over-WebSocket
Introduction: University of Warsaw Student Projects Since 2019, ScyllaDB has cooperated with the University of Warsaw by mentoring teams of students in their Bachelor’s theses. After SeastarFS,...
View ArticleAlan Shimel Chats NoSQL with ScyllaDB VP of Product, Tzach Livyatan
ScyllaDB recently announced ScyllaDB V: the latest evolution of our monstrously fast and scalable NoSQL database. To explore what’s new and how the latest innovations impact application development...
View ArticleWhat Technical Problems are Teams Solving with ScyllaDB NoSQL?
If you’re in the process of selecting a distributed database, you’re probably quite familiar with peer review sites like G2. These are independent forums where users share product feedback free from...
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