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Scylla Open Source Release 4.3 — Scylla is an open source, NoSQL database focused on performance and low latency.

Making a Scalable and Fault-tolerant Database System: Partitioning and Replication — Learn how data partitioning and replication work in Scylla, to ensure that it is a database both scalable and fault tolerant.

Comparing CQL and the DynamoDB API — A comparison of the Cassandra Query Language (CQL) with DynamoDB’s API, both of which are now supported in Scylla Open Source (we featured the release of Scylla 4.0 last week).

Introducing Scylla Open Source 4.0 — Scylla (a Cassandra-compatible NoSQL data store aiming to be the “world’s fastest column-store database”) now provides production-ready lightweight Transactions (LWT), a DynamoDB-compatible API (Alternator), and operator for Kubernetes, and more.

How Scylla Scaled to One Billion Rows a Second — The technical details behind how Scylla (a Cassandra-compatible NoSQL data store) has managed to scale to reading a billion rows per second across 83 nodes on Packet’s bare metal servers.

Project Gemini: An Open Source Automated Random Testing Suite for Scylla and Cassandra Clusters — Project Gemini is ScyllaDB’s new automated random testing suite for data integrity of Scylla and Cassandra databases, now released as open source software.

Scylla's Take on AWS's New Managed Cassandra Service — ScyllaDB is a high-performance ‘drop in’ Cassandra alternative so it’s no surprise its authors have some opinions about AWS’s new Cassandra service (above) and its architecture.

Scylla Open Source 3.1 Released — Scylla is an open source NoSQL database that’s designed to be compatible with Apache Cassandra but offering significantly higher performance (it’s written in C++ vs Java for Cassandra).

Scylla Alternator: An Open Source DynamoDB-Compatible API for Scylla — Alternator is an open source project that brings DynamoDB compatibility to Scylla, a Cassandra-inspired distributed NoSQL store. The ScyllaDB company themselves have also just raised $25m.

Scylla Cloud: The Fastest NoSQL Database as a Managed Service — ScyllaDB is a real-time, big data database heavily influenced by Apache Cassandra. This cloud version is AWS only for now, but Azure and GCP are to follow.

ValuStor: A memcached Alternative Built on Scylla — Scylla itself is a highly scalable, distributed low-latency database (based on Apache Cassandra’s design) and ValuStor is an open source memcached alternative built on top of it that brings several interesting features to the party.