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by dorlaor 629 days ago
Some additional nuggets by ScyllaDB co-founder: - Discord couldn't complete repair with Cassandra. Not the case with Scylla - Scylla has a lot in common with Cassandra, from a good reason, like the LSM tree, compaction etc. However, Scylla has a unique CPU&IO schedulers which allows us to prioritize the queries over compaction, and defer compaction to the half milisecond where we have enough idle bandwidth. We have plenty of articles about it - Scylla has a new (1.5 years) tombstone_gc=repair - a much safer mode - Scylla's new architecture of Raft and tablets was recently launched and is the next big thing for our users. Watch the cool youtube video of those tablet load balancing