In case you missed the news, on Tuesday we announced our acquisition of Seastar.io database-as-a-service technology from our partner Network Redux.
This acquisition was in response to the growing requests we’ve received for cloud-hosted ScyllaDB. As part of our enterprise product and service portfolio, core Seastar.io technology will enable developers to use fully managed ScyllaDB over popular public clouds such as AWS, GCE, and Azure.
We’re excited to now make it even easier for our users to gain the benefits of DBaaS, such as rapid provisioning, scalability, standardization, lower hardware and software costs, and reduced administration resources.
I’d like to add that Seastar.io was the right solution at the right time. We’ve been looking at Seastar.io since it first emerged with the explicit goal of solving the automation and security challenges users face when deploying stateful, container-native, Apache Cassandra-compatible databases in the cloud. With this technology, you can have a ScyllaDB cluster up and running in minutes with a dashboard and API that simplify the provisioning process.
As an early-bird integration of Seastar.io, we present ScyllaDB Test Drive. ScyllaDB Test Drive allows you to get an up-and-running cluster of 3 server machines (i3.4xl on AWS) and 8 loader machines, and log in to a private benchmark… all with a single click. You can login to the machines using SSH and modify the running load to match your use case. The machines are yours for an hour. As we complete the integration of Seastar.io (later in 2018), ScyllaDB will add a fully self-service product to our portfolio.
We’ll show off our new DBaaS capabilities (and much more!) next week at our ScyllaDB Summit 2017. If you haven’t yet registered, please take the time do so. We hope to see you there!
