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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 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.