Top Resources

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.

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

Reduce Your Cloud Spend with ScyllaDB

This talk will explore why ScyllaDB Cloud is a cost-effective alternative to DynamoDB, highlighting efficient design implementations like shared compute, local NVMe storage, and storage compression. I

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.

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

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

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.

ScyllaDB vs. DynamoDB: Comparing Price Performance Across Workloads

How ScyllaDB and DynamoDB cost and latency compare across workloads and pricing models.

How Digital Turbine Moved DynamoDB Workloads to GCP – In Just One Sprint

How Joseph Shorter and Miles Ward led a fast, safe migration with ScyllaDB's DynamoDB-compatible API