ScyllaDB recently launched our Scylla Cloud database as a service, which combines the speed and power of the Scylla NoSQL database with the ease of a fully managed cloud service. Scylla Cloud relieves your team of day-to-day cluster management so you can focus on creating modern, interactive applications that respond to queries in milliseconds. Join us for an overview of Scylla Cloud, including a live demo of how to launch and connect to a cluster, how to create and query a table, and how to run a few operations, all in minutes.

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3. + Intro to ScyllaDB and Scylla Cloud
+ Benefits & Benchmarks
+ Demo
+ Deployment Options
+ Working with Scylla Cloud
+ Next Steps
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+ The Real-Time Big Data Database
+ Drop-in replacement for Cassandra
+ 10X the performance & consistent, low latency
+ New: Scylla Cloud, DBaaS
+ Open source and enterprise editions
+ Founded by the creators of KVM hypervisor
+ HQs: Palo Alto, CA; Herzelia, Israel

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90% 80% 50X
Reduce CAPEX and OPEX
Unstructured dataIncreasing cloud
budget
Unstructured data
growth compared
to structured

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8. + Symmetric Nodes (no master)
+ Deployed on multiple AWS Availability Zones per Region
+ Flexible Replication Factor (minimum: 3 copies of the data)
+ Eventual Consistency: Lose up to 2 nodes without data loss
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9. + Operated by Scylla’s skilled cloud DevOps team (24x7)
+ Always on the latest Scylla Enterprise release
+ Automatic daily health check reports
+ Automatic managed repairs
+ Automatic alerts
+ Complete Scylla support stack
+ Scylla Enterprise grade support (tiers 1 - 4)
+ Support Portal
+ PagerDuty and Slack notification
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+ Daily backup to S3 buckets
+ Retention Policy:
+ Last 3 days
+ One week, 2 weeks
+ Restoring backup
+ By customer request
+ Restore into a new, independent cluster

11. + Integrated with AWS Secrets Manager (no local keys)
+ Clusters are isolated with security groups, Virtual Private Cloud
Network (VPC)
+ Applying the principle of least privilege per element (AMI, roles, ...)
+ Hotfix for Scylla, underline OS and relevant libraries
+ Encryption At Rest
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12. + Intro to ScyllaDB and Scylla Cloud
+ Benefits & Benchmarks
+ Demo
+ Deployment Options
+ Working with Scylla Cloud
+ Next Steps
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Cassandra
Compatibility
Drop-in
replacement,
compatible with
full C* ecosystem
(drivers, etc.)
No
Lock-in
Scylla runs
anywhere and
migrates easily
Less
Expensive
10X less expensive
vs DynamoDB and
Bigtable
High
Performance
Millions of
OPS on
a single node
Low
Latencies
Consistent
single-digit
millisecond
p99 latencies

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Cassandra’s and Memcached latency
Scylla’s latency
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Scylla Cassandra
Requests/
Minute
12,000,000 500,000
AVG Latency 4 ms 8 ms
Max Latency 8 ms 35 ms

16. + CQL native protocol
+ JMX management protocol
+ Management command line
+ SSTable file format
+ Configuration file format
+ CQL language
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https://www.scylladb.com/wp-content/uploads/comp-scylladb-vs-dynamodb.pdf
https://www.scylladb.com/2018/12/13/scylla-vs-amazon-dynamodb/
the cost of the latency of
1/10 1/3

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How does compare to ?

20. + YCSB, prepared statements
+ Workload A, 50%:50% read:update
+ Requested SLA: 60k write ops, 60k read ops, < 10ms P95
+ 1TB dataset
+ i3.8xlarge | 32 vCPU | 244 GiB RAM | 4 x 1.9TB NVMe
+ 3-node cluster on single DC | RF=3
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+ YCSB, prepared statements

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Provisioned
amount
Partitions
New Provisioned
amount

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27. + Intro to ScyllaDB and Scylla Cloud
+ Benefits & Use Cases
+ Demo
+ Deployment Options
+ Working with Scylla Cloud
+ Next Steps
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— Jason Mills,
+ Multi-region deployment
+ Migrating from Apache Cassandra 2.1
+ Use VPC peering (per region)

30. + Intro to ScyllaDB and Scylla Cloud
+ Benefits & Benchmarks
+ Demo
+ Deployment Options
+ Working with Scylla Cloud
+ Next Steps
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Instance Type vCPUs RAM (GB) Storage (TB)
t2.micro 1 .5 .005 EBS
i3.large 2 15.25 0.475 SSD
i3.xlarge 4 30.5 0.95 SSD
i3.2xlarge 8 61 1.9 SSD
i3.4xlarge 16 122 3.8 SSD
i3.8xlarge 32 244 7.6 SSD
i3.16xlarge 64 488 15.2 SSD
Hourly Annual/Monthly Annual/Upfront
t2.micro ✔
i3 family ✔ ✔ ✔
Flexible Pricing OptionsRange of Instances

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Region
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DC
AWS Scylla
Region DC
Zone Rack
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DC
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DC
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DC
Zone A Zone B
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37. Zone 1A Zone 1B Zone 1C
Region 1
Zone 2A Zone 2B Zone 2C
Region 2
Zone 3A Zone 3B Zone 3C
Region 3
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38. + Intro to ScyllaDB and Scylla Cloud
+ Benefits & Benchmarks
+ Demo
+ Deployment Options
+ Working with Scylla Cloud
+ Next Steps
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39. App
App
App
App
App
App
Read and Write with
RF= { 'class' : 'NetworkTopologyStrategy', 'EU' : 3, US : 3};
CL=LOCAL_QUORUM
Write
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40. Read and Write with
RF= { 'class' : 'NetworkTopologyStrategy', 'EU' : 3, US : 3};
CL=LOCAL_QUORUM
App
App
App
App
App
App Read
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41. + What happens if the server I’m connected to is gone?! How do we balance
+ Drivers can set HA policy and multi-dc setting for resiliency
>>> from cassandra.policies import DCAwareRoundRobinPolicy
>>> cluster = Cluster(
contact_points=['12.9.31.182, 12.9.31.183, 12.9.31.184'],
load_balancing_policy=
TokenAwarePolicy(DCAwareRoundRobinPolicy(local_dc='EU')),
default_retry_policy = RetryPolicy()
)

42. SSTable
Loader
SSTables CQL
CQL CQL
Client
CQLCQL
Client
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+ Dual Write
Application logic is updated to write to
both DBs
+ Forklifting
Migrate historical data from Cassandra
SSTables to Scylla
+ Dual Reads
Ongoing validation of data sync
between the two DBs

43. + Intro to ScyllaDB and Scylla Cloud
+ Benefits & Use Cases
+ Demo
+ Deployment Options
+ Working with Scylla Cloud
+ Next Steps
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Sign up and get started now

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