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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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8 months ago

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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over 1 year ago

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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over 1 year ago

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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almost 2 years ago

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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8 months ago

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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over 3 years ago

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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over 3 years ago

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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over 4 years ago

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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almost 2 years ago

Steering ZEE5’s High-Stakes 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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about 2 years ago

DynamoDB: When to Move Out?

A look at the top reasons why teams decide to leave DynamoDB: throttling, latency, item size limits, and limited flexibility...not to mention costs.

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3 days ago

How Agoda Scaled Its Feature Store 50X

Lessons learned on data modeling, cache optimization, and hardware selection

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3 days ago

How ShareChat Cut Recommendation Engine Costs 90%, Step by Step

From managed Google Cloud services to ScyllaDB, Redpanda, Flink, and beyond

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3 days ago

We Built a Better Cassandra + ScyllaDB Driver for Node.js – with Rust

Lessons learned building a Rust-backed Node.js driver for ScyllaDB: bridging JS and Rust, performance pitfalls, and benchmark results

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3 days ago

From Batch to Real-Time: How MoEngage Achieved Millisecond Personalization with ScyllaDB

How a leading customer engagement platform handles 250K writes per second at 1ms p99 latency with 200TB+ data

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3 days ago

Scaling Performance Comparison: ScyllaDB Tablets vs Cassandra vNodes

Benchmarks show ScyllaDB tablet-based scaling 7.2× faster than Cassandra's vNode-based scaling (9× with cleanup), sustaining ~3.5X higher throughput with fewer errors

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