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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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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ScyllaDB’s Safe Topology and Schema Changes on Raft
How ScyllaDB is using Raft for all topology and schema metadata – and the impacts on elasticity, operability, and performance
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How We Implemented ScyllaDB’s “Tablets” Data Distribution
How ScyllaDB implemented its new Raft-based tablets architecture, which enables teams to quickly scale out in response to traffic spikes
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Smooth Scaling: Why ScyllaDB Moved to “Tablets” Data Distribution
The rationale behind ScyllaDB's new “tablets” replication architecture, which builds upon a multiyear project to implement and extend the Raft consensus protocol. It enables teams to quickly...
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Book Excerpt: ScyllaDB, a Different Database
What's so distinctive about ScyllaDB? Read what Bo Ingram (Staff Engineer at Discord) has to say – in this excerpt from the book "ScyllaDB in Action."
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Why Teams are Eliminating External Database Caches
Explore often-overlooked risks related to external caches and see how 3 teams are replacing their core database + external cache with a single solution
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Better “Goodput” Performance through C++ Exception Handling
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.
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Retaining Database Goodput Under Stress with Per-Partition Query Rate Limiting
How we implemented ScyllaDB’s per-partition rate limit feature, which allows users to limit the rate of accepted requests on a per-partition basis, and the impact on “goodput”: the amount of...
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Benchmarking MongoDB vs ScyllaDB: IoT Sensor Workload Deep Dive
benchANT's comparison of ScyllaDB vs MongoDB in terms of throughput, latency, scalability, and cost for a workload that simulates a real-world IoT application
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A Tale of Database Performance Woes: Patrick’s Unlucky Green Fedoras
Database performance is serious business, but why not have a little fun exploring its challenges and complexities? 😉 Here's a rather fanciful story we presented in Database Performance at Scale, a...
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Steering ZEE5’s Migration to ScyllaDB
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...
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