Top Resources

ScyllaDB X Cloud: An Inside Look with Avi Kivity

Our Co-Founder/CTO discusses the design decisions behind ScyllaDB X Cloud’s elasticity and efficiency.

ScyllaDB In Action: By Bo Ingram [Discord]

ScyllaDB in Action -- by Discord's Bo Ingram -- is a practical guide to everything you need to know about ScyllaDB, from your very first queries to running it in a production environment.

How Discord Migrated Trillions of Messages from Cassandra to ScyllaDB

Learn why and how Discord’s persistence team recently completed their most ambitious migration yet: moving their massive set of trillions of messages from Cassandra to ScyllaDB.

Inside Tripadvisor’s Real-Time Personalization with ScyllaDB + AWS

See the engineering behind real-time personalization at Tripadvisor’s massive (and rapidly growing) scale

Database Performance at Scale: A Practical Guide

Discover new ways to optimize database performance – and avoid common pitfalls – in this 270 page book

ScyllaDB: 10 Years and Beyond

There’s a common adage that it takes 10 years to develop a file system. As ScyllaDB reaches that 10 year milestone in 2025, it’s the perfect time to reflect on the last decade of ScyllaDB development

ScyllaDB's Architecture for Extreme Scale

CTO Avi Kivity shares how scalability is core to ScyllaDB’s architecture.

A Deep Dive into ScyllaDB’s Architecture

Take a technical deep dive into ScyllaDB's architecture and discover the "secret sauce" behind our high availability and superior performance.

Feature Store Evolution Under Cost Constraints: When Cost is Part of the Architecture

Understanding The True Cost of DynamoDB

Analyzing the impact of peaks, DAX, global tables, and other cost multipliers

DynamoDB Cost Optimization Masterclass

Learn pragmatic strategies for optimizing DynamoDB costs as you grow. It also presents alternatives to consider when you’ve hit your limit with AWS (e.g., due to costs, multicloud initiatives, ...)

Quantifying the Performance Impact of Shard-per-core Architecture

Most software isn’t architected to take advantage of modern hardware. How does a shard-per-code and shared-nothing architecture help – and exactly what impact can it make?

ScyllaDB Virtual Workshop

Ready to try out ScyllaDB and want to make sure you’re “doing it right?” We’ll help you get up and running, fast. Join our architects for a one-hour crash course.

Designing Data-Intensive Applications [O'Reilly Book]

Discover new ways of thinking about your distributed data system challenges. Download Martin Kleppmann's practical and comprehensive guide for data-intensive applications.

ScyllaDB is No Longer “Just a Faster Cassandra”

Predictable performance isn't just a feature—it's a must for anyone building serious, data-intensive applications at scale. ScyllaDB has often been labeled merely as a faster alternative to Cassandra,

Getting the Most Out of ScyllaDB: From Evaluation to Production

Get practical advice for navigating the various decision points you’ll face as you assess whether ScyllaDB is a good fit for your team and later roll it out into production.