A great thing about working closely with our community is that I get a chance to hear a lot about their needs and – most importantly – listen to and take in their feedback. Lately, we’ve seen a growing interest from organizations considering ScyllaDB as a means to replace their existing DynamoDB deployments and, as happens with any new tech stack, some frequently recurring questions. ? ScyllaDB provides you with multiple ways to get started: you can choose from its CQL protocol or ScyllaDB Alternator. CQL refers to the Cassandra Query Language, a NoSQL interface that is intentionally similar t ..read more

Some very strange error reporting performance issues we uncovered while working on per-partition query rate limiting — and how we addressed it through C++ exception handling In Retaining Goodput with Query Rate Limiting, I introduced why and how ScyllaDB implemented per-partition rate limiting to maintain stable performance under stress by rejecting excess requests to maintain stable goodput. The implementation works by estimating request rates for each partition and making decisions based on those estimates. And benchmarks confirmed how rate limiting restored goodput, even under stressful con ..read more

There are many paths to adopting and mastering ScyllaDB, but the vast majority all share a visit to ScyllaDB University. I want to update the ScyllaDB community about recent changes to ScyllaDB University, introduce the High Availability lab, and share some future events and plans. What is ScyllaDB University? For those new to ScyllaDB University, it’s an online learning and training center for ScyllaDB. The material is self-paced and includes theory, quizzes, and hands-on labs that you can run yourself. Access is free; to get started, just create an account. Start Learning ScyllaDB University ..read more

ScyllaDB is a remote-first company with associates working in distributed locations around the globe. We’re good at it, and we love it. Still, each year we look forward to in-person company summits to spend time together, share knowledge, and have fun. When the time comes, we say goodbye to our kids and cats and fly from all corners of the world to convene in one place. This April, we met in Limassol, a historical city on the southern coast of Cyprus. Many People, One Goal Over 120 attendees gathered at this year’s ScyllaDB Engineering Summit. With the company rapidly growing, it was a great o ..read more

A step-by-step tutorial to capturing changed data for high-throughput, low-latency applications, using Redpanda and ScyllaDB This blog is a guest post by Kovid Rathee. It was first published on the Redpanda blog. CDC is a methodology for capturing change events from a source database. Once captured, the change events can be used for many downstream use cases, such as triggering events based on specific conditions, auditing, and analytics. ScyllaDB is a distributed, wide-column NoSQL database known for its ultra-fast performance as it’s written in C++ to make the best use of the low-level Linux ..read more

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