by Tzach Livyatan and Peter Corless With the release of ScyllaDB Open Source 5.0, we’ve introduced a set of noteworthy production-ready new features — foremost of which is including support for the AWS EC2 I4i line of servers powered by the 3rd generation of Intel Xeon (“Ice Lake”) processors. ScyllaDB…

by Peter Corless Rakuten is a Japanese online shopping powerhouse, responsible for $15 billion in annual sales. It is one of the most frequented sites in the world. To keep it operational throughout the year, and especially during peak shopping seasons, Rakuten relies on a team of expert developers and…

By Piotr Sarna Our Rust driver started as a humble hackathon project, but it has eventually grown to become our fastest and safest Cassandra Query Language (CQL) driver. We happily observed in our benchmarks that our ScyllaDB Rust Driver beats even the reference C++ driver in terms of raw performance…

by Cynthia Dunlop Scylla Summit 2022 is less than a month away. We’ve already shared a bit about what you can expect, and we’re busy setting the virtual stage for 30+ industry experts to share innovations, insights, and best practices for your data-intensive applications. It’s time to turn the tables…

By Piotr Sarna It’s been a while since Scylla Rust Driver was born during ScyllaDB’s internal developer hackathon. Since then, its development and adoption accelerated a lot. We’ve added many new features and published a couple of releases on crates.io. Along the way, we also stumbled upon a few interesting…

By Cynthia Dunlop The agenda for Scylla Summit 2022 is now available. We’re excited to announce 25+ sessions that offer a highly-interactive opportunity to: Discover the latest distributed database advancements Hear how your peers are solving their toughest database challenges Learn what’s new with ScyllaDB Explore the latest trends across…

By Peter Corless This article includes content from our webinar “Demystifying the Distributed Database Landscape.” You can register now to watch the webinar in full. WATCH THE FULL WEBINAR The earthly landscape we walk upon usually changes very slowly. It’s measurable in centimeters or inches per year. But the digital…

By Peter Corless This article includes content from our webinar “Demystifying the Distributed Database Landscape.” You can register now to watch the webinar in full. WATCH THE FULL WEBINAR We’re in the middle of what we at ScyllaDB have dubbed “This Next Tech Cycle.” Not “the world of tomorrow” nor…

By Piotr Grabowski, Juliusz Stasiewicz and Karol Baryla This is part two of a two-part blog series on the relative performance of the recently released Apache Cassandra 4.0. In part one, we compared Cassandra 4.0 vs. Cassandra 3.11. In part two we will compare Apache Cassandra 4.0 and 3.11 with…