ScyllaDB System Properties

Scylla is a highly-available, highly-scalable, highly-performant NoSQL database. Scylla is generally used as a key-value store or wide columnar model database.

With additional packages such as JanusGraph or KairosDB, Scylla can serve as a graph database or a time series database (TSDB).

Scylla took the best characteristics of Apache Cassandra and did a complete rewrite from the ground up in C++. This means no JVM tuning and no garbage collection (GC) pauses. Built on the Seastar engine, Scylla provides all the best features of Cassandra with a built-for-speed engine under the hood.

Scylla is completely compliant with Cassandra Query Language (CQL). It also uses the same SSTable format on disk, making migrations from Cassandra to Scylla easy.

• Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions of IOPS per node)

• Highly-available (peer-to-peer, no single-point-of-failure, active-active)

• Scales horizontally (automatic rebalancing of data with new nodes)

• Scales vertically (takes advantage of modern multi-CPU, multi-core architectures)

• Self-tuning performance (minimizes administration)

• Tunable consistency model

• Consistent low-latency and high throughput

• Cross datacenter replication built in

• AdTech (AdGear, AppNexus, Dstillery, Numberly, Sizmek)

• Cybersecurity (Veramine)

• Entertainment (Comcast)

• Gaming (Discord)

• Mobile (Zenly, Tantan)

• Internet of Things (GE, Meshify, Augury, Sensaphone)

• Navigation & Transportation (GPS Insight, Nauto, Faraday Future)

• Network Management (OpenNMS)

• Personalization (Natura)

• Social Networking (IMVU)

Comcast, Grab, Yahoo! Japan, IMVU, Adgear, Appnexus,  Zenly, Natura, Snapfish, mParticle, Dstillery

• Scylla Open Source - free open source software (AGPL)

• Scylla Enterprise - subscription-based (proprietary license)

• Scylla Cloud - managed DBaaS (various pricing models: annual, monthly, hourly)