Somehow two months have passed since ScyllaDB Summit 24. Thinking back on the event, so much has changed since our inaugural ScyllaDB Summit, when ~100 people gathered in San Jose, CA in 2016. The ScyllaDB database, company, and community have all developed quite substantially. But one thing remains the same: hearing about what our users are achieving with ScyllaDB is still my favorite part of the conference. I want to share some of the highlights from these great tech talks by our users and encourage you to watch the ones that are most relevant to your situation. As you read/watch, you will n ..read more

Where an RDBMS-pro’s intuition led him astray – and what he learned when our database performance expert helped him get up and running with ScyllaDB NoSQL Recently, I was asked by the ScyllaDB team if I could document some of my learnings moving from relational to NoSQL databases. Of course, there are many (bad) habits to break along the way, and instead of just documenting these, I ended up planning a 3 part livestream series with my good friend Felipe from ScyllaDB. ScyllaDB is a NoSQL database that is designed from the ground up with performance in mind. And by that, I mean optimizing for s ..read more

Eliminating cloud vendor lockin and supporting rapid growth – with a 5X cost reduction Kishore Krishnamurthy, CTO at ZEE5, recently shared his perspective on Zee’s massive, business-critical database migration as the closing keynote at ScyllaDB Summit. You can read highlights of his talk below. All of the ScyllaDB Summit sessions, including Mr. Krishnamurthy’s session and the tech talk featuring Zee engineers, are available on demand. Watch On Demand About Zee Zee is a 30-year-old publicly-listed Indian media and entertainment company. We have interests in broadcast, OTT, studio, and musi ..read more

A detailed walk-through of an end-to-end DynamoDB to ScyllaDB migration We previously discussed ScyllaDB Migrator’s ability to easily migrate data from DynamoDB to ScyllaDB – including capturing events. This ensures that your destination table is consistent and abstracts much of the complexity involved during a migration. We’ve also covered when to move away from DynamoDB, exploring both technical and business reasons why organizations seek DynamoDB alternatives, and examined what a migration from DynamoDB looks like, walking through how a migration from DynamoDB looks like and how to accompli ..read more

Filipe Lima and Fabricio Rucci share the central role that ScyllaDB plays in their Global Commercial Platform Natura, a multi-brand global cosmetics group including Natura and Avon, spans across 70 countries and an ever-growing human network of over 7 million sales consultants. Ranked as one of the world’s strongest cosmetics brands, Natura’s operations require processing an intensive amount of consumer data to drive campaigns, run predictive analytics, and support its commercial operations. In this interview, Filipe Lima (Architecture Manager) and Fabricio Pinho Rucci (Data and Solution Archi ..read more

ScyllaDB Cloud is a managed NoSQL Database-as-a-Service based on the leading open-source database engine ScyllaDB. It is designed for extreme performance, low latency, and high availability. It is compatible with the Cassandra Query Language (CQL) and Amazon DynamoDB APIs, making it a possible replacement for many solution architects pursuing performance. This article is about ScyllaDB Cloud network connectivity management. It will show how to use ScyllaDB Cloud to connect to the customer’s application using a transit gateway. ScyllaDB Cloud Network Connectivity In response to customer demand ..read more

ScyllaDB, a high-performance NoSQL database with a close-to-the-metal architecture, had the privilege of examining Google Cloud’s Z3 GCE instances in an early preview. The Z3 machine series is the first of the Storage Optimized VM GCE offerings. It boasts a remarkable 36T of Local SSD. The Z3 series is powered by the 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor (alias Sapphire Rapids) and DDR5 memory as well as Google’s custom-built Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU) that supports Hyperdisk. The Z3 amalgamates the most recent advancements in compute, networking, and storage technologies into a sing ..read more

What does a DynamoDB migration really look like? Should you dual-write? Are there any tools to help?  Moving data from one place to another is conceptually simple. You simply read from one datasource and write to another. However, doing that consistently and safely is another story. There are a variety of mistakes you can make if you overlook important details. We recently discussed the top reasons so many organizations are currently seeking DynamoDB alternatives. Beyond costs (the most frequently-mentioned factor), aspects such as throttling, hard limits, and vendor lock-in are frequentl ..read more

Even though the ScyllaDB monster has tentacles instead of feet, we still like to keep our community members on their toes. From a lively ScyllaDB Lounge, to hands-on ScyllaDB Labs, to nonstop speaker engagement (we racked up thousands of chat interactions), this was not your typical virtual event. But it’s pretty standard for the conferences we host – both ScyllaDB Summit and P99 CONF. Still, we surprised even the seasoned sea monsters by launching a previously unannounced session after the first break: an “Ask Me Anything” session with ScyllaDB Co-founders Dor Laor (CEO) and Avi Kivity (CTO ..read more

Performance improvements, encryption at rest, Repair Based Node Operations, consistent schema management using Raft & more  ScyllaDB Enterprise 2024.1.0 LTS, a production-ready ScyllaDB Enterprise Long Term Support Major Release, is now available! The new release is based on ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4. It introduces significant performance improvements: up to 50% higher throughput, 35% greater efficiency, and 33% lower latency. It introduces encryption at rest, Repair Based Node Operations (RBNO) for all operations, and numerous improvements and bug fixes. Additionally, consistent schem ..read more