Our chairman Benny Schnaider explaining the NOSQL evolution and his vision for Scylla.

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Benny Schnaider
Chairman
NEXTGEN NOSQL

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GOOD TO SEE YOU
▪ More than doubled number of attendees
o From 2016
▪ Production sites have grown X6
o 8 -> 50 (the known ones)
▪ More people know about Scylla

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NOSQL EVOLUTION
▪ Traditional DB did not scale
▪ Key new factors:
o COTS
o OSS
▪ Massively scale modern apps
• Google, Facebook, AWS
▪ An amazing eco system
o Cambrian Explosion

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NOSQL GEN #1
▪ Inefficient and unstable
o But much better than competition
▪ Application level changes to
compensate for DB issues
o Make code even less stable
o Hard to maintain
▪ We got some runway increase
o Works better with the cloud

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NOSQL NEXT-GEN
▪ A modern implementation
o Written in C++
o Written by OS and storage experts
▪ Better understanding of the environment
o Above – the apps
o Below – the infrastructure
▪ Building on almost 20 years of evolution
o DynamoDB grandson
▪ Scale-up and Scale-out
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THE STRATEGY
Generic
Seastar
Cassandra
Other
NoSQL
It is a HUGE

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BUILDING QUERIES
bschnaider@gmail.com
@BennySchnaider