ScyllaDB Adds Amazon DynamoDB-compatible API to Database-as-a-Service Offering

ScyllaDB Cloud simplifies migration for DynamoDB users, adds Grafana integration and extends flexible new deployment options

PALO ALTO, CALIF. — June 10, 2020 — ScyllaDB today announced that it has added its recently launched Amazon DynamoDB-compatible API, Alternator, to ScyllaDB Cloud, the fully managed version of its NoSQL database. Other new features in ScyllaDB Cloud include integration with popular open source monitoring tool Apache Grafana and the ability for users to run ScyllaDB Cloud on their own AWS accounts.

ScyllaDB Cloud offers a cost-effective alternative to other database-as-a-service (NoSQL DBaaS) options. Running the same workloads as Amazon DynamoDB and Google Cloud BigTable, ScyllaDB Cloud comes in at roughly one-fifth the cost. Built on ScyllaDB Enterprise, ScyllaDB Cloud handles petabytes of data, performing millions of operations per second with predictable low latencies. It allows rapid prototyping, deployment and scaling of applications without the overhead of database administration, minimizing downtime and allowing developers to move high-performance applications quickly into production.

“We are very impressed with the performance and ease of operations with ScyllaDB Cloud,” said David Zhao, Director of Engineering at popular online publishing platform Medium. “ScyllaDB Cloud gives us a fully managed database that frees us from having to spend valuable engineering time on DB operations. We’ve been fans of ScyllaDB for a long time. For our applications, it delivers the best cost/performance compared to other RDBMS or NoSQL databases.”

Other recent ScyllaDB Cloud updates include:

• Run ScyllaDB Cloud in Your Own AWS Account: ScyllaDB now gives users a choice of where they deploy their fully managed ScyllaDB Cloud database — via their ScyllaDB Cloud account, or in their own AWS account. This new option allows ScyllaDB Cloud users to keep all ScyllaDB resources (EC2, VPC, S3 buckets, etc.) while maintaining their own AWS pricing, company policies and geographic regulations.
• Grafana Integration: ScyllaDB Cloud now integrates directly with the widely used Grafana multi-platform open source solution for running data analytics, improving the observability of ScyllaDB Cloud cluster performance.
• Extract Metrics for Prometheus: ScyllaDB Cloud now supports extracting cluster metrics in Prometheus format. Extracted statistics can be viewed with either ScyllaDB Monitoring Stack or any other monitoring tool that supports the Prometheus format, such as Datadog.
  “DynamoDB users who have experienced sticker shock from high database costs can now easily migrate to a much more cost-effective alternative, one with many more deployment options,” said Dor Laor, ScyllaDB Co-founder and CEO. “They can also now take advantage of other open source tools like Grafana and Prometheus.”

For more information on ScyllaDB Cloud, or to sign up for an account, please visit scylladb.com.