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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A New Way to Estimate DynamoDB Costs
We built a new DynamoDB cost analyzer that helps developers understand what their workloads will really cost
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Rust Rewrite, Postgres Exit: Blitz Revamps Its “League of Legends” Backend
How Blitz scaled their game coaching app with lower latency and leaner operations
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Why We Changed ScyllaDB’s Data Streaming Approach
How moving from mutation-based streaming to file-based streaming resulted in 25X faster streaming time
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The Strategy Behind ReversingLabs’ Monster Scale Key-Value Migration
Migrating 300+ TB of data and 400+ services from a key-value database to ScyllaDB – with zero downtime
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Efficient Full Table Scans with ScyllaDB Tablets
"Tablets" data distribution makes full table scans on ScyllaDB more performant than ever
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From Raw Performance to Price Performance: A Decade of Evolution at ScyllaDB
This is a guest post authored by tech journalist George Anadiotis. It’s a follow-up to articles that he published in 2023 and 2022. In business, they say it takes ten years to become an overnight...
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Why Teams Are Ditching DynamoDB
Teams sometimes need lower latency, lower costs (especially as they scale) or the ability to run their applications somewhere other than AWS
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How to Reduce DynamoDB Costs: Expert Tips from Alex DeBrie
DynamoDB consultant Alex DeBrie shares where teams tend to get into trouble
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How JioCinema Uses ScyllaDB Bloom Filters for Personalization
Why they used ScyllaDB Bloom Filters instead of building their own using common solutions like Redis Bloom filters
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