New release introduces enterprise support for Amazon DynamoDB-compatible API, transactions, streaming API and enhanced query capabilities
PALO ALTO, CALIF. — August 19, 2020 — ScyllaDB today announced ScyllaDB Enterprise 2020, the latest major release of its high-performance NoSQL database for real-time big data workloads. As ScyllaDB’s premium database product, ScyllaDB Enterprise offers the highest level of performance, scale, security and availability. New production-ready features in ScyllaDB Enterprise 2020 provide greater consistency, new querying capabilities, an Amazon DynamoDB-compatible API and numerous product enhancements.
ScyllaDB Enterprise is a drop-in replacement for Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB, delivering better, more consistent performance, significantly lower total cost of ownership and greater deployment flexibility. ScyllaDB Enterprise 2020 extends ScyllaDB’s already impressive advantages over Cassandra, including the ability to scale up to any number of cores, multi-petabyte capacity with nodes as large as 60TB, built-in schedulers, unified cache and self-tuning operations.
Benchmarks demonstrate that ScyllaDB is about 1/8 the total cost of Amazon DynamoDB for the same workloads. Performance comparisons show ScyllaDB Enterprise 2020 delivers more than 5X greater throughput and nearly 10X lower P99 latencies than Apache Cassandra. ScyllaDB Enterprise scales out 24X faster than Apache Cassandra, allowing users to run without overprovisioning.
New Capabilities in ScyllaDB Enterprise 2020
- Alternator, a DynamoDB-compatible API: ScyllaDB Enterprise 2020 provides a production-ready Amazon DynamoDB-compatible API that lets DynamoDB users switch to ScyllaDB without changing a single line of application code. ScyllaDB significantly reduces the total cost of ownership, delivers lower and more consistent latencies and expands the limitations DynamoDB places on object size, partition size, etc. ScyllaDB can also run as a complement to DynamoDB, extending an existing DynamoDB implementation to additional deployment options. Teams can run on-premises, on their preferred cloud platforms or on ScyllaDB’s fully managed database as a service, ScyllaDB Cloud. They are free to access their data as they like, without pay-per-operation fees and with more deployment options, including open source Docker and Kubernetes.
- Lightweight Transactions (LWT): ScyllaDB’s Lightweight Transactions (LWT) extends ScyllaDB’s options for data consistency. By employing Paxos consensus for two-phase-commits, ScyllaDB LWT makes operations strongly consistent and enables compare-and-set conditional updates. The implementation requires one less round trip than the original Cassandra design and is safer with regard to commitlog disk flushes.
- CQL Enhancements: ScyllaDB has extended the Cassandra Query Language (CQL) to provide more granular and efficient results, including new clauses such as GROUP BY and BYPASS CACHE, enhancements in ALLOW FILTERING and a LIKE operator to enable searching for patterns in user data.
- Change Data Capture: Allows users to track changes in their data, recording both the original data values and the new values to records. With CDC, ScyllaDB streams changes to a standard CQL table that can be indexed or filtered to find critical changes to data. The new API offers functionality that’s superior to both Cassandra and DynamoDB. (Production ready in ScyllaDB Enterprise 2020.2)
Additional features and enhancements since ScyllaDB Enterprise 2019.1 include:
- Incremental Compaction Strategy to get the most out of available infrastructure
- Local (in addition to global) secondary indexes that provide data flexibility
- IPv6 support to expanded network address space
- Encryption at Rest, including local, replicated and KMIP providers
- Large Cell/Collection Detector to proactively find problematic anomalies in a database
- Nodetool TopPartitions to identify the top “hot” partitions
- MC SSTable format for more efficient storage
- Row-level repair to provide a fast, granular anti-entropy mechanism
- Support for AWS i3en “meganode” servers with up to 60TB/node
- Improved CQL server admission control
- New deployment options for Debian 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, CentOS 8
“After 5,568 commits from five open source releases, we’re excited to now move forward with ScyllaDB Enterprise 2020,” said Dor Laor, CEO and co-founder, ScyllaDB. “Our superior performance and lower total cost of ownership have led so many Cassandra users to migrate to ScyllaDB, and we now expect the same shift from users of Amazon DynamoDB. Developers don’t want to be locked into a single platform, especially one that’s so expensive.”
ScyllaDB Enterprise received the InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award for 2020. Selected by editors and reviewers of IDG’s InfoWorld, the annual awards identify the best and most innovative products on the IT landscape. Other winners included Atlassian, Confluent, Databricks, Datadog, HashiCorp and Snowflake.
ScyllaDB also offers a fully managed NoSQL DBaaS – built on ScyllaDB Enterprise – ScyllaDB Cloud, which is now available with a free trial.
For more information on ScyllaDB Enterprise 2020, please visit scylladb.com.
