Scylla DB, Inc. – Business Times Oman http://www.businesstimesoman.com Tue, 28 Feb 2023 12:20:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.2 ScyllaDB Continues Record Growth in Response to Rising Cloud Cost Pressures http://www.businesstimesoman.com/scylladb-continues-record-growth-in-response-to-rising-cloud-cost-pressures/ http://www.businesstimesoman.com/scylladb-continues-record-growth-in-response-to-rising-cloud-cost-pressures/#respond Tue, 28 Feb 2023 12:20:00 +0000 http://www.businesstimesoman.com/?p=307513 SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 28, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ScyllaDB, the database for data–intensive apps that require high throughput and predictable low latency, today announced that the company completed Q4 with a 100% year–over–year growth in its Database–as–a–Service (DBaaS) offering, ScyllaDB Cloud. This comes on the heels of the company announcing that its 800% overall revenue growth landed ScyllaDB a spot in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500. ScyllaDB ranked 182 and is the only database on this year's list.

In addition to the rapidly growing list of gamechangers who came to ScyllaDB for its ability to support high throughput with predictable low latencies, ScyllaDB has been experiencing a surge in demand from teams who are now under pressure to rein in cloud costs (e.g., following "cloud bill shock"). Organizations that previously adopted the DBaaS offering developed by their cloud vendor are realizing that those options are often not the most cost–effective (or most performant) options.

"ScyllaDB is uniquely architected to capitalize on continuing hardware innovations," explained Dor Laor, ScyllaDB Co–Founder and CEO. "While other NoSQL databases are effectively insulated from the underlying hardware, ScyllaDB fully capitalizes on processor, memory, network, and storage innovation to maximize performance and use less infrastructure."

Ultimately, ScyllaDB's efficiency results in better performance, less admin, and lower total cost of ownership. ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput and ~20X lower latency versus databases such as Amazon DynamoDB, Google Bigtable, and Apache Cassandra. Moreover, ScyllaDB offers organizations the flexibility to run their database on their cloud provider of choice "" or opt for multi–cloud, hybrid, or on–prem deployment options.

The recent ScyllaDB Summit 2023, a free virtual event that drew thousands of database enthusiasts, featured several new benchmarking results, ScyllaDB use cases at Discord, Epic Games, Strava, Sharechat & more, plus a host of product updates and announcements "" including ScyllaDB Serverless. Keynotes and tech talks can be viewed on–demand now.

ScyllaDB's year has also been marked by a variety of industry recognitions. Beyond being named to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, ScyllaDB has also been named the "NoSQL Solution of the Year” by the Data Breakthrough Awards, one of the 50 Best IT Infrastructure Products by G2, and one of the 100 fastest–growing SaaS companies by RedHerring.

About ScyllaDB

ScyllaDB is the database for data–intensive apps that require high throughput and low latency. It enables teams to harness the ever–increasing computing power of modern infrastructures "" eliminating barriers to scale as data grows. Unlike any other database, ScyllaDB is built with deep architectural advancements that enable exceptional end–user experiences at radically lower costs. Over 400 game–changing companies like Disney+ Hotstar, Expedia, Discord, Crypto.com, Zillow, Starbucks, Comcast, and Samsung use ScyllaDB for their toughest database challenges. ScyllaDB is available as free open source software, a fully–supported enterprise product, and a fully managed service on multiple cloud providers. For more information: ScyllaDB.com

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ScyllaDB Expands Leadership Team with Red Hat Veteran Amidst Rapid Growth http://www.businesstimesoman.com/scylladb-expands-leadership-team-with-red-hat-veteran-amidst-rapid-growth/ http://www.businesstimesoman.com/scylladb-expands-leadership-team-with-red-hat-veteran-amidst-rapid-growth/#respond Wed, 30 Nov 2022 11:00:00 +0000 http://www.businesstimesoman.com/?p=307041 PALO ALTO, Calif. and HERZLIYA, Israel, Nov. 30, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ScyllaDB, the company behind the ScyllaDB database for data–intensive apps that require high throughput and low latency, today announced that Yaniv Kaul has joined the company as VP of Research and Development. Kaul comes to ScyllaDB from Red Hat, where he was Senior Director of Engineering.

Kaul is joining ScyllaDB at an inflection point in its growth, with the company becoming the distributed database of choice for fast–growing markets such as gaming, social media, IoT, media streaming, cybersecurity, and fraud detection. ScyllaDB's growth was recently recognized in the Deloitte Fast 500, where the company's 800% growth made it the 185th fastest–growing company in North America (and the only database company on the list). This explosive growth is the result of ScyllaDB's deep commitment to performance at scale, stability, simplicity, and community.

"Avi [Kivity] and I worked with Yaniv on KVM at Red Hat," explained ScyllaDB CEO Dor Laor. "He has an impressive combination of deep technical expertise and the ability to lead complex community–based projects that span multiple technologies with the collaboration of hundreds of remote developers. I am excited to be collaborating with him again, and I am eager to see the impact he makes on ScyllaDB engineering "" and ultimately our end users."

"I've been following Seastar [an advanced, open–source C++ framework for high–performance server applications on modern hardware] and ScyllaDB since the projects' inception," added Kaul. "This team of engineers has such a distinguished track record of technical achievements; I'm honored to be leading the next phase of the journey."

At Red Hat, Kaul led the Cloud Infrastructure engineering group, which included the OpenStack, Virtualization Management, Cloud Storage and Data Services, and Performance and Scale engineering groups. In addition to leading engineering teams, Kaul also brings years of Quality Assurance and security experience to ScyllaDB. A graduate of University of Hertfordshire (BSc., Computing and Networks), Kaul holds 8 patents related to virtual machine performance tuning, in–memory caching, and SSD block–based storage.

About ScyllaDB

ScyllaDB is the database for data–intensive apps that require high performance and low latency. It enables teams to harness the ever–increasing computing power of modern infrastructures "" eliminating barriers to scale as data grows. Unlike any other database, ScyllaDB is built with deep architectural advancements that enable exceptional end–user experiences at radically lower costs. Over 400 game–changing companies like Disney+ Hotstar, Expedia, Discord, Zillow, Starbucks, Comcast, and Samsung use ScyllaDB for their toughest database challenges. ScyllaDB is available as free open source software, a fully–supported enterprise product, and a fully managed service on multiple cloud providers. For more information: ScyllaDB.com

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Uber, Lyft, Square, ScyllaDB & Google Engineers on the P99 CONF Agenda http://www.businesstimesoman.com/uber-lyft-square-scylladb-google-engineers-on-the-p99-conf-agenda/ http://www.businesstimesoman.com/uber-lyft-square-scylladb-google-engineers-on-the-p99-conf-agenda/#respond Wed, 28 Sep 2022 11:30:00 +0000 http://www.businesstimesoman.com/?p=305552 PALO ALTO, Calif. and HERZLIYA, Israel, Sept. 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ScyllaDB, the company behind the ScyllaDB database for data–intensive apps that require high performance and low latency, today announced the agenda for P99 CONF 2022.

P99 CONF is a highly–technical conference where top engineers share how they are tackling their toughest high–performance, low–latency challenges. Focus areas include Rust, Go, event streaming architectures, databases, Linux, virtualization, observability, and Kubernetes "" all with an emphasis on open source software. The two–day event is free, purely virtual, and highly interactive.

This year's event features 50+ sessions from engineers at Uber, Lyft, Square, ScyllaDB, Google, Red Hat, Oracle, RedisLabs, Microsoft, and more.

Keynotes include:

  • Gil Tene (Azul Systems): Misery Metrics & Consequences
  • Liz Rice (Isovalent): Using eBPF for High–Performance Networking in Cilium
  • Malte Ubl (Vercel): Ultra–Low–Latency Web Rendering on the Edge
  • Dor Laor (ScyllaDB): P99 Pursuit
  • Charity Majors and Ian Smith (Honeycomb): Performance Tuning with Precision
  • Bryan Cantrill (Oxide Computer Company): Sharpening the Axe: The Primacy of Toolmaking
  • Avi Kivity(ScyllaDB): How a Database Looks from a Disk's Perspective

Additionally, some of the most–anticipated sessions on the agenda include:

  • Steven Rostedt (Google): Analyze Virtual Machine Overhead Compared to Bare Metal with Tracing
  • Omar Elgabry (Square): Square Engineering's “Fail Fast, Retry Soon” Performance Optimization Technique
  • Pavlo Stavytskyi (Lyft): Measuring the CPU Performance of Android Apps at Lyft
  • Cristian Velazquez (Uber): Large–Scale, Semi–Automated Go Garbage Collection Tuning at Uber
  • Ron Pressler (Oracle): Why User–Mode Threads Are Good for Performance
  • Armin Ronacher (Sentry, Flask framework): Overcoming Variable Payloads to Optimize for Performance

The vendor–neutral, community–focused event is organized and hosted by ScyllaDB. P99 CONF offers a core subset of talks focused on low–latency distributed data "" sharing engineering strategies from RedisLabs, Percona, Redpanda, QuestDB, TiDB, RavenDB, DragonflyDB, RageDB, and ScyllaDB.

For the full agenda and to register for P99 CONF, visit p99conf.io.

About ScyllaDB

ScyllaDB is the database for data–intensive apps that require high performance and low latency. It enables teams to harness the ever–increasing computing power of modern infrastructures""eliminating barriers to scale as data grows. Unlike any other database, ScyllaDB is built with deep architectural advancements that enable exceptional end–user experiences at radically lower costs. Over 400 game–changing companies like Disney+ Hotstar, Expedia, FireEye, Discord, Crypto.com, Zillow, Starbucks, Comcast, and Samsung use ScyllaDB for their toughest database challenges. ScyllaDB is available as free open source software, a fully–supported enterprise product, and a fully managed service on multiple cloud providers.

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ScyllaDB Announces ScyllaDB V, Addressing Legacy NoSQL Challenges http://www.businesstimesoman.com/scylladb-announces-scylladb-v-addressing-legacy-nosql-challenges/ http://www.businesstimesoman.com/scylladb-announces-scylladb-v-addressing-legacy-nosql-challenges/#respond Tue, 12 Jul 2022 13:00:00 +0000 http://www.businesstimesoman.com/?p=305047 PALO ALTO, Calif., July 12, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ScyllaDB today announced ScyllaDB V, the latest evolution of its monstrously fast and scalable NoSQL database built for data–intensive applications that require high performance and low latency. ScyllaDB V introduces a host of performance, resilience, and elasticity enhancements that help gamechanging companies power instantaneous experiences with their massive datasets. These innovations for extreme scale are ScyllaDB's next step in resolving longstanding challenges of legacy NoSQL databases. ScyllaDB V enables real–time performance from gigabyte to petabyte scale.

ScyllaDB fuels high demand workloads in leading companies worldwide, including Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Palo Alto Networks, Starbucks, Instacart, and Discord. Its close–to–the–metal, shared nothing approach delivers greater performance for a fraction of the cost of DynamoDB, Apache Cassandra, MongoDB, and Google Bigtable. Such gains are the result of years of groundbreaking development and battle–hardened releases, which ScyllaDB V builds upon.

ScyllaDB is uniquely architected to capitalize on continuing hardware innovations. Modern infrastructure is fundamentally different than when legacy NoSQL databases were designed over a decade ago. Organizations now have access to servers with an increasing abundance of vCPUs, RAM, I/O, and fast NVMe storage. While legacy NoSQL databases are effectively insulated from the underlying hardware, ScyllaDB fully capitalizes on processor, memory, network, and storage innovation to maximize performance and use less infrastructure. Ultimately, this results in less admin and lower total cost of ownership. For instance, Comcast went from 962 Apache Cassandra nodes to only 78 ScyllaDB nodes. This efficiency results in anywhere from 2x to 10x cost savings over prior solutions.

"We not only anticipated this shift; we architected for it from the start," said Dor Laor, CEO and co–founder, ScyllaDB. "That's why we're so uniquely well–poised to tap the power of new technology such as AWS I4is and Nitro SSD storage. ScyllaDB V marks an inflection point in the evolution of NoSQL "" away from its roots in cloud–nascent infrastructure, and towards the future of low–latency, real–time distributed systems."

More on ScyllaDB V
ScyllaDB V is a series of releases across ScyllaDB Open Source, Enterprise, and Cloud (DBaaS) that focus on NoSQL innovations for extreme scale. Details are outlined in the ScyllaDB V web page. ScyllaDB Open Source 5.0 is the first milestone for ScyllaDB V. The 5.0 release will be introduced in a webinar on July 19.

Highlights of ScyllaDB V include:

  • Strong, immediate consistency for schema updates, topology changes, tables and indexes, and more. This eliminates schema and data conflicts, enables rapid and safe increases in cluster capacity, and provides a leap forward in manageability. These capabilities are based on a new underlying Raft consensus protocol implementation.
  • AWS EC2 I4i support with 2X the throughput (and lower latency) vs. i3 instances.
  • New IO model and scheduler provide fine–tuned balancing of backend database operations and read/write requests based on the disk's capabilities "" boosting throughput, reducing latency, and minimizing the impact of admin operations.
  • A fully asynchronous Rust driver that will serve as a unified platform for other drivers going forward.
  • WebAssembly for user–defined functions, which means that creating a UDF is as easy as providing its source code represented in WebAssembly Text Format.

About ScyllaDB
ScyllaDB is the database for data–intensive apps that require high performance and low latency. It enables teams to harness the ever–increasing computing power of modern infrastructures—eliminating barriers to scale as data grows. Unlike any other database, ScyllaDB is built with deep architectural advancements that enable exceptional end–user experiences at radically lower costs. Over 400 game–changing companies like Disney+ Hotstar, Expedia, FireEye, Discord, Crypto.com, Zillow, Starbucks, Comcast, and Samsung use ScyllaDB for their toughest database challenges. ScyllaDB is available as free open source software, a fully–supported enterprise product, and a fully managed service on multiple cloud providers.

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ScyllaDB gives customers higher NoSQL performance with support for new Amazon EC2 I4i instances http://www.businesstimesoman.com/scylladb-gives-customers-higher-nosql-performance-with-support-for-new-amazon-ec2-i4i-instances/ http://www.businesstimesoman.com/scylladb-gives-customers-higher-nosql-performance-with-support-for-new-amazon-ec2-i4i-instances/#respond Thu, 28 Apr 2022 13:00:00 +0000 http://www.businesstimesoman.com/?p=306531 PALO ALTO, Calif., April 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ScyllaDB, the company behind the ScyllaDB database for data–intensive applications that require high performance and low latency, announced that it is achieving staggering performance results on a range of new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). This includes the Amazon EC2 I4i instances which are x86 processor based, and im4gn and is4gen instances which use AWS Arm–based Graviton2 processors.

ScyllaDB uses Amazon EC2 I4i Instances to provide customers with performance improvements
Amazon EC2 I4i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and feature up to 30 TB of local AWS Nitro Solid State Drives (SSD) storage. Nitro SSDs are Non–Volatile Memory Express (NVMe)–based and custom–designed by AWS to provide high I/O performance, low latency, minimal latency variability, and security with always–on encryption. Amazon EC2 Im4gn and Is4gen instances are next–generation, storage–optimized instances designed for running applications that require high throughput and low–latency access to large amounts of data on local SSD storage. They are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and provide up to 30 TB of storage with AWS Nitro SSDs.

ScyllaDB's NoSQL database is built with deep architectural advancements (asynchronous, shared–nothing, shard–per–core) that enable teams to harness the ever–increasing computing power of modern infrastructures "" eliminating barriers to scale as data grows.

Benchmarking Performance: I4i vs i3
Results from benchmarking tests with ScyllaDB running on I4i family instances surpassed performance expectations.

“ScyllaDB is a high–performance NoSQL database that can take advantage of high–performance cloud computing instances. When we tested I4i instances, we observed up to 2.7x increase in throughput per vCPU compared to I3 instances for reads,” explained Avi Kivity, Chief Technology Officer and Co–Founder at ScyllaDB. “With an even mix of reads and writes, we observed 2.2x higher throughput per vCPU, with a 40% reduction in average latency than I3 instances. We are excited for the incredible performance and value these new instances will enable for our customers going forward.”

ScyllaDB's benchmark details can be reviewed in an on–demand presentation with ScyllaDB VP of Product, Tzach Livyatan, and Head of Specialized Solution Architects, Compute at AWS, Ken Krupa.

About ScyllaDB
ScyllaDB is the database for data–intensive apps that require high performance and low latency. It enables teams to harness the ever–increasing computing power of modern infrastructures "" eliminating barriers to scale as data grows. Unlike any other database, ScyllaDB is built with deep architectural advancements that enable exceptional end–user experiences at radically lower costs. Over 400 game–changing companies like Disney+ Hotstar, Expedia, FireEye, Discord, Zillow, Starbucks, Comcast, and Samsung use ScyllaDB for their toughest database challenges. ScyllaDB is available as free open source software, a fully–supported enterprise product, and a fully managed service on multiple cloud providers. For more information: ScyllaDB.com

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Cloud Database Demand Spurs 198% Growth for ScyllaDB http://www.businesstimesoman.com/cloud-database-demand-spurs-198-growth-for-scylladb/ http://www.businesstimesoman.com/cloud-database-demand-spurs-198-growth-for-scylladb/#respond Tue, 25 Jan 2022 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.businesstimesoman.com/?p=306396 PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 25, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ScyllaDB, the database for data–intensive apps that require high performance and low latency, today announced that the company achieved 106% overall year–over–year growth in net new ARR. The majority of this growth came from Scylla Cloud, the company's Database–as–a–Service (DBaaS), which grew 198% over 2021.

The impressive 2021 results were a direct response to the growing number of game–changing organizations challenged with scaling for rapid data growth. The ScyllaDB database "" which is available in open source, enterprise, and cloud options "" features deep architectural advancements that enable consistently high performance at extreme scale and efficiency. It is increasingly the database of choice for hard–core engineers who have experienced the constraints of the first generation of NoSQL databases (e.g. Apache Cassandra, MongoDB) and require a fundamentally different approach to powering their applications.

Notable 2021 milestones include:

  • Welcoming industry leaders across social media, food delivery, travel planning, exercise tracking, telecom, adtech, and cybersecurity as new customers
  • Launching Scylla Cloud on GCP in addition to AWS
  • Offering Scylla Cloud and Scylla Enterprise on AWS Marketplace
  • Introducing the industry's first fully–managed NoSQL DBaaS that runs in the customer's own cloud account (BYOA)
  • Achieving record enrollment and engagement in Scylla University, which achieved a 165% increase in certifications year–over–year
  • Completing extensive benchmarking vs CockroachDB and Apache Cassandra 4.0
  • Recognizing the accomplishments of users such as Zillow, GE Healthcare, Disney+ Hotstar, and Fanatics with ScyllaDB User Awards
  • Launching P99CONF, a highly–interactive virtual conference that attracted 5K developers obsessed with P99 percentiles and high–performance, low–latency applications

"One interesting business impact of COVID is the dramatic increase in the demand to build and accelerate data–intensive applications," explained ScyllaDB CEO and co–founder Dor Laor. "As the expectations for online services surged across B2B as well as B2C, the need for organizations to become digitally efficient increased significantly. This drove major growth across all our products. For our organization, one of the most notable impacts of 2021 was increased demand from industry disruptors: organizations leveraging data to change the game (for example, Discord, Disney+ Hotstar, Expedia, FireEye, and Zillow). They select ScyllaDB because of our ability to deliver consistent high performance with ultra–low latency."

Scylla Summit 2022
Scylla Summit 2022 will be unveiling more details about the company's progress as well as a broad array of expert perspectives on what's ahead in this next tech cycle (cloud infrastructure, distributed databases, event streaming, and more). The conference, which occurs on February 9 and 10, is virtual, free, and highly interactive. In addition to ScyllaDB leaders and engineers, it features speakers from:

  • AWS
  • Oxide Computer Company
  • Palo Alto Networks
  • Amdocs
  • Rakuten
  • IOTA
  • Confluent

Register at https://www.scylladb.com/scylla–summit–2022/ to attend live or to unlock full access to the on–demand session recordings plus the speakers' slide decks.

About ScyllaDB

ScyllaDB is the database for data–intensive apps that require high performance and low latency. It enables teams to harness the ever–increasing computing power of modern infrastructures "" eliminating barriers to scale as data grows. Unlike any other database, ScyllaDB is built with deep architectural advancements that enable exceptional end–user experiences at radically lower costs. Over 400 game–changing companies like Disney+ Hotstar, Expedia, FireEye, Discord, Crypto.com, Zillow, Starbucks, Comcast, and Samsung use ScyllaDB for their toughest database challenges. ScyllaDB is available as free open source software, a fully–supported enterprise product, and a fully managed service on multiple cloud providers. For more information: For more information: ScyllaDB.com

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