ScyllaDB CEO and co-founder Dor Laor shares his vision for Scylla and announces Scylla 2.0, a big step towards the first autonomous NoSQL database—one that dynamically tunes itself to varying conditions while always maintaining a high level of performance.

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Dor Laor
CEO, ScyllaDB
SCYLLA
SUMMIT 2017
KEYNOTE

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fail·ure
ˈfālyər/
noun
lack of success.
an unsuccessful person, enterprise, or thing.
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“I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways
that won't work.”
Thomas A. Edison
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per·sist·ent
pərˈsist(ə)nt/
adjective
continuing firmly or obstinately in a course
of action in spite of difficulty or opposition.
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Scylla by the numbers
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Scylla by the numbers
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Scylla by the numbers
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Scylla by the numbers
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▪ 2nd annual conference
▪ > 200 attendees
▪ 43 Employees <hiring>
▪ 2 offices
▪ 14 countries
▪ $25M in funding
▪ > 50 production installations
▪ 50 node, 5 DC production
clusters
▪ 200 node QA clusters
▪ 5 open source releases
▪ First Enterprise release
▪ 1.5 million OPS on i3.16xl
▪ 1PB cluster with 30 nodes
▪ 0.5msec server latency with
super fast drives
▪ 4 CPU Architectures!
▪ 2X Commits/day than C*
▪ Same amount of active
committers as C*

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2015-2017 Themes
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Stability Performance Compatibility

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What did we achieve this year?
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Materialized
Views
Secondary
indexes
Repair that repairs
Auto repairs
Hinted handoff
Efficient repair
CPU
Scheduler
Heat based
load balancing
Enterprise
release
DTCS, TWCS,
Hybrid
Compaction
Wide row support
Counters
CQL tracing

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Scylla Enterprise 2017.1.x, 2017.2.y
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▪ 24x7 support
▪ Proprietary license
▪ Long lifetime
▪ Audit
▪ Encryption at rest
▪ New Hybrid Compaction Strategy
▪ Enterprise per-shard repair with SLA guarantee
o Towards a full management console

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New Partnership
Scylla is 68% faster on
Power than on X86
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IBM Power - 20 core, 160 cpus

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The best alignment with modern hardware
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▪ IBM’s Power, Mainframe, ARM, X86
▪ Faster drives: NVMe, Optane, ZSSD
▪ Fastest NICs: 10Gbps, 25Gbps, 100Gbps
▪ Bypass Linux with shard per core

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sea·sta·r
sea-star
noun
Kicka** asynchronous engine that makes your
hardware sing
SMF - Fastest RPC in the west
Pedis - Parallel Redis by Baidu

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The Autonomous NoSQL Database
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▪ SLA for Requests over maintenance operations
▪ Automatic tuning
▪ Automatic backpressure
▪ Scale up/down easily and stream as fast as possible
▪ Ongoing repair
▪ Smoothes complex data models

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sim·plic·i·ty
sim-ˈpli-sə-tē
noun
the, quality, or an instance of being simple.
freedom from complexity.

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DBaaS IP Acquisition of
Seastar.io/NetworkRedux
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The Database Product-Market fit
An average user with average
use case meets
a non average product
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3 years past, what will happen in the next 3
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First 3 years
2015 - Beta (Alpha), launch out of stealth mode
2016 - GA (beta)
2017 - GA (GA), Enterprise sales, DBaaS gen 1,
feature complete

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3 years past, what will happen in the next 3
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Next 3 years
First 3 years
2015 - Beta (Alpha), launch out of stealth mode
2016 - GA (beta)
2017 - GA (GA), Enterprise sales, DBaaS gen 1,
feature complete
DBaaS gen2, gen 3, Map reduced, more Seastar
applications, Newer file formats, new replication
algorithms, more

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▪ Multi tenant DBaaS mean to break the node segmentation
▪ One gigantic cluster to rule them all
▪ No need to auto scale.
The future
Serverless Autonomous Fast DBAAS

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The Present
DBAAS
Hardware
Drivers
Presto
Elastic
Search
K/V
Large
blob
store
Cache/
in-memory
Wide
row/
Time
series Secondary
index Graph Spark
Kafka

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Hear the story of our users/customers/partners
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Building queries
dor@scylladb.com
@dorlaor