ScyllaDB User Tech Talks: Dor Laor’s Takeaways
A look at how industry-leading teams (Discord, Expedia, ShareChat...) have tackled tough performance challenges with distributed databases.
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Distributed Database Blogs
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Inside ScyllaDB’s Internal Cache
Why ScyllaDB completely bypasses the Linux cache during reads, using its own highly efficient row-based cache instead.
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Unlearning Old Habits: From Postgres to NoSQL
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
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Migrating from Postgres to ScyllaDB, with 349X Faster Query Processing
How Coralogix cut processing times from 30 seconds to 86 milliseconds with a PostgreSQL to ScyllaDB migration
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How 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...
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Why Disney+ Hotstar Replaced Redis and Elasticsearch with ScyllaDB Cloud
Get the inside perspective on how Disney+ Hotstar simplified its “continue watching” data architecture for scale.
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Apache Cassandra 4.0 vs. ScyllaDB 4.4: Comparing Performance
Let’s compare the performance of the latest release of Scylla Open Source 4.4 against Cassandra 4.0 and Cassandra 3.11. We measured the latencies and throughputs at different loads, as well as the...
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A New ScyllaDB Go Driver: Faster Than GoCQL and Its Rust Counterpart
How we built a new Go ScyllaDB driver that's almost 4x faster than its GoCQL predecessor and 2X faster than its Rust counterpart.
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When ScyllaDB is Overkill vs. DynamoDB
ScyllaDB isn't for everyone. In some cases, migrating from DynamoDB won't reduce your costs at all.
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How We Updated ScyllaDB Drivers for Tablets Elasticity
Rethinking ScyllaDB's shard-aware drivers for our new Raft-based tablets architecture
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Making Effective Partitions for ScyllaDB Data Modeling
Learn how to ensure your tables are perfectly partitioned to satisfy your queries – in this excerpt from the book "ScyllaDB in Action."
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Database Internals: Optimizing Memory Management
How databases can get better performance by optimizing memory management
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NoSQL Data Modeling: Application Design Before Schema Design
Learn how to implement query-first design to build a ScyllaDB schema for a sample application – in this excerpt from the book "ScyllaDB in Action."
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Why ScyllaDB’s Shard Per Core Architecture Matters
3 perspectives on what shard-per-core involves and why it matters for teams who care about database performance. Also ... puppies!
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Book Excerpt: ScyllaDB versus Other Databases
How does ScyllaDB compare to other databases? Read what Bo Ingram (Staff Engineer at Discord) has to say – in this excerpt from his new book “ScyllaDB in Action.” Editor’s note We’re thrilled to...
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We Compared ScyllaDB and Memcached and… We Lost?
Engineers behind ScyllaDB joined forces with Memcached maintainer dormando for an in-depth look at database and cache internals, and the tradeoffs in each.
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Understanding Distributed System Performance… from the Grocery Store
Learn essential steps for boosting distributed system performance -- explained with grocery store checkout analogies.
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Clues in Long Queues: High IO Queue Delays Explained
How seemingly peculiar metrics might provide interesting insights into system performance
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ScyllaDB Elasticity: Demo, Theory, and Future Plans
Watch a demo of how ScyllaDB's Raft and tablets initiatives play out with real operations on a real ScyllaDB cluster -- and get a glimpse at what’s next on our roadmap.
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How Freshworks Cut Database P99 Latency by 95% – with Lower Costs
How Freshworks tackled high tail latencies, Cassandra admin burden, and any little surge causing an increase in timeouts
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