This document discusses the attributes of a high-performance, low-latency database like ScyllaDB. It begins with introductions and an overview of ScyllaDB. It then summarizes how hardware has evolved over 20 years with more cores, memory, and faster disks. ScyllaDB was redesigned from first principles to take advantage of modern hardware, using an asynchronous, shared-nothing architecture with one shard per core. This allows it to achieve significantly higher performance than Cassandra. The document shows benchmark results demonstrating ScyllaDB's lower latencies and ability to scale to higher throughput. It also discusses how ScyllaDB uses workload prioritization to manage different types of workloads.