Garbage collection has been the pain point for java based tech like hadoop. Interesting to see databases being written in Golang, which I imagine would have the same issues.
ScyllaDB is written in C++.
ScyllaDB Closes $16M in Series B Funding
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Re: ScyllaDB Closes $16M in Series B Funding
#12Does anyone else find it a bit weird that a post on ScyllaDB's blog announcing their fundraising starts with: "ScyllaDB announced today that it?" It seems weirdly self referential to me. They're definitely not the only ones to do this though. Anyways, congrats on the funding guys, certainly not trying to cast shade.
The founding team is Israeli I believe, and their team is distributed across the world, so this may not have been written by a native English speaker.
It was probably written by their PR firm.
Re: ScyllaDB Closes $16M in Series B Funding
#13I don't get it. Is this just a faster Cassandra? What's their competitive niche?
Re: ScyllaDB Closes $16M in Series B Funding
#14I don't get it. Is this just a faster Cassandra? What's their competitive niche?
A faster, well engineered, drop in replacement for Cassandra is a pretty competitive niche in of itself, don't you think?
Re: ScyllaDB Closes $16M in Series B Funding
#15I don't get it. Is this just a faster Cassandra? What's their competitive niche?
A faster, well engineered, drop in replacement for Cassandra is a pretty competitive niche in of itself, don't you think?
I guess but I don't really know. Lots of people have Cassandra in production. I suppose there is a certain segment of that market that needs a super high performance version, but is it really that big?
Re: ScyllaDB Closes $16M in Series B Funding
#16Congratulations to the team! I would love to move over from Apache Cassandra to Scylla but honestly I'm a bit afraid to do that. I have no doubt that it's much faster but I haven't seen hard numbers about consistency and availability. Apache Cassandra is a much older project with many installations and is battle tested (to a degree) how can I be sure that Scylla will behave as stable as Cassandra in that regard?
We don't use it for any production services, but for internal use it's been pretty darn solid. Really fast too, we benchmarked 80k/sec/node inserts on EC2.
Re: ScyllaDB Closes $16M in Series B Funding
#17I don't get it. Is this just a faster Cassandra? What's their competitive niche?
An order of magnitude faster Cassandra with no GC pauses (because it's C++). It's a literal drop in replacement. Even nodetool is compatible.
Re: ScyllaDB Closes $16M in Series B Funding
#18I like ScyllaDb. But I am not sure, why does it need to run on XFS only ?
Re: ScyllaDB Closes $16M in Series B Funding
#19I like ScyllaDb. But I am not sure, why does it need to run on XFS only ?
Re: ScyllaDB Closes $16M in Series B Funding
#20If I was Datastax I would be scared of Scylla. They have momentum and they are one of the best engineering teams around outside of top teams at Google/FB etc.
I wouldn't.
Enterprise companies care about performance, sure. But far, far less than they care about being on a supported platform. DataStax has done the hard yards over the years to prove themselves capable of supporting Cassandra. SycllaDB has no street cred at all.
So SycllaDB might make some inroads in performance critical startups and web companies. But that is likely to be about it.