ScyllaDB Best Practices Resources

ScyllaDB University LIVE Virtual Event

Join us for a half-day of free instructor-led training —from NoSQL + ScyllaDB fundamentals to advanced strategies on topology optimization, migration strategies & admin tips.

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: Proven Practices & Pitfalls for NoSQL at Scale

Discover what’s most important for achieving low latency at extreme scale. We'll walk you through the strategies and pitfalls learned from thousands of real-world distributed database projects.

Using ScyllaDB for Real-Time Write-Heavy Workloads

Explore the technical challenges of real-time write-heavy workloads (IoT, logging systems, real-time analytics, and order processing) and learn best practices for working with them in ScyllaDB.

Using ScyllaDB for Real-Time Read-Heavy Workloads

Explore the technical challenges of real-time read-heavy workloads (recommendation, personalization, chat, gaming...) and learn best practices for working with them in ScyllaDB.

Using ScyllaDB for Extreme Scale Workloads

NoSQL Data Modeling: Application Design Before Schema Design

Learn how to implement query-first design to build a ScyllaDB schema for a sample application  – in this excerpt from the book "ScyllaDB in Action."

Getting the Most Out of ScyllaDB Monitoring: ShareChat’s Tips

This practical talk shares how ShareChat works with non-standard ScyllaDB metrics to analyze the remaining cluster capacity, debug performance problems, and more.

Making Effective Partitions for ScyllaDB Data Modeling

Learn how to ensure your tables are perfectly partitioned to satisfy your queries  – in this excerpt from the book "ScyllaDB in Action."

Top Mistakes with ScyllaDB: Intro & Infrastructure

A new blog series on how to avoid common mistakes with ScyllaDB. First up: selecting a suitable infrastructure.

Top Mistakes with ScyllaDB: Configuration

Get an inside look at the most common ScyllaDB configuration mistakes – and how to avoid them.

Top Mistakes with ScyllaDB: Storage

All about disk types, best practices, common misconceptions, filesystem types, RAID setups, tunable parameters, and what makes disks so special in the context of databases.

NoSQL Data Modeling Masterclass

Learn real-world strategies for fast, scalable NoSQL data models in this free + interactive masterclass.

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!

High-Performance NoSQL Masterclass

Learn best practices for highly scalable, high performance NoSQL in this on-demand masterclass.

Performance Engineering Masterclass

Learn how to apply SLO-driven strategies to optimize observability – and ultimately performance – from the front-end to the back-end of your distributed systems.

Distributed Data Systems Masterclass

Learn how to build and manage enterprise-scale distributed data systems with the latest event streaming and distributed database technologies.

Achieving Low Latency at Extreme Scale: Proven Practices & Pitfalls

Elasticity, Speed & Simplicity: Get the Most From New ScyllaDB Capabilities

What users need to know about tablets and Raft...at a purely pragmatic level