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by Pavel “Xemul” Emelyanov Introduction Being a large datastore, ScyllaDB operates many internal activities competing for disk I/O. There are data writers (for instance memtable flushing code or commitlog) and data readers (which are most likely fetching the data from the SSTables to serve client requests). Beyond that, there are background…

We explored the Raft capabilities introduced in ScyllaDB 5.2 in the blog ScyllaDB’s Path to Strong Consistency: A New Milestone. Now let’s talk about what’s coming next: Raft-based consistent and centralized topology management. …

In ScyllaDB 5.2, we made Raft generally available and use it for the propagation of schema changes. Quickly assembling a fresh cluster, performing concurrent schema changes, updating node’s IP addresses — all of this is now possible. And these are just the beginning of visible user changes for Raft-enabled clusters…

By Felipe Mendes, Solution Architect at ScyllaDB If you have use cases that require high throughput and predictable low latency, there is a good chance that you will eventually stumble across ScyllaDB (and — hopefully — that you landed here!) whether you come from another NoSQL database or are exploring…

By Alexys Jacob, Numberly At Numberly, the Omnichannel Delivery team owns all the types of messages we support and operate for our clients, from the well-known and established email, to the still emerging Rich Communication Services (RCS) — and don’t forget the over-the-top (OTT) platforms such as WhatsApp. The team…

This article was written independently by João Pedro Voltani, Head of Engineering at TRACTIAN, and originally published on the TRACTIAN blog. It was co-authored by João Granzotti, Partner & Head of Data at TRACTIAN In the beginning of 2022, TRACTIAN faced the challenge of upgrading our real-time machine learning environment…

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…

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