Database Scaling Resources

Overcoming Barriers of Scaling Your Database

Scaling distributed databases successfully today requires meeting a myriad of challenges. Learn how to navigate both technical ecosystem and database architectural challenges.

Database Performance at Scale Masterclass

Discover new ways to optimize database performance – and avoid common pitfalls. Join “Database Performance at Scale” book authors for an interactive masterclass. Attendees get a free book!

Beyond Linear Scaling: A New Path for Performance with ScyllaDB

Explore DB performance beyond linear scalability, including what typically matters more when running high throughput and low latency workloads at scale.

Scaling Up vs. Scaling Out: Mythbusting Database Deployment Options

Explore the merits of small clusters and see test results that debunk the concerns some organizations have about using large nodes.

7 Gamechangers' Strategies for Database Speed at Scale

Learn how leaders like Expedia, Disney+ Hotstar and Fanatics are evolving their data architecture for speed at scale.

ScyllaDB's Petabyte Benchmark: Millions of Transactions at Single-Digit Millisecond P99

Learn how we configured a petabyte-scale benchmark, results with and without workload prioritization, tips and tricks that might benefit others planning their own petabyte-scale benchmark.

Transforming the Database: Critical Innovations for Performance at Scale

Take a technical deep dive into database innovations critical for speed at scale (e.g., millions of read/write operations and millisecond P99 response).

Efficient Deduplication in RecSys at Scale: How We Managed to Reduce Server Cost by 90%

Efficient deduplication is key to delivering relevant recommendations at scale. Andrei shares how they optimized for 300M+ users, cutting costs by 90% while reducing latency. He covers how ScyllaDB, A

ScyllaDB's Architecture for Extreme Scale

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

Tracking Millions of Heartbeats on ZEE’s Streaming Platform

How strategic database migration + data (re)modeling improved latencies and cut database costs 5X

Achieving Low Latency at Extreme Scale: Proven Practices & Pitfalls

A Tale from Database Performance at Scale

Follow Joan’s highly fictionalized adventures with some all-too-real database performance challenges. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll wonder how we worked this “cheesy story” into a deeply...

Using ScyllaDB for Extreme Scale Workloads

How ShareChat Scaled their ML Feature Store 1000X without Scaling the Database

How ShareChat successfully scaled 1000X without scaling the underlying database (ScyllaDB)

ScyllaDB Fast Forward: True Elastic Scale

Learn how our new tablets architecture enables new levels of elasticity, speed, simplicity, and efficiency -- dynamically redistributing data as the workload and topology evolve.

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

Inside Natura &Co Global Commercial Platform with ScyllaDB

Natura &Co share the central role that ScyllaDB plays in their Global Commercial Platform

Database Performance at Scale: A Practical Guide

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

How Grab Built a Scalable, High-Performance Ad Server

How the GrabAds team built an ad server that could scale according to our growing consumer base.

Aggregations at Scale for ShareChat — Using Kafka Streams and ScyllaDB

How ShareChat handles the aggregations of a post's engagement metrics/counters at scale with sub-millisecond P99 latencies for reads and writes.