Scylla with Dor Laor

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Dor Laor (@DorLaor) go under the hood of Scylla, the open-source NoSQL database designed for low latency and high throughput in big data applications. Dor and his team have reimplemented Apache Cassandra in C++ from scratch, with additional compatibility for DynamoDB. In today’s episode, Dor shares details on the exciting work coming out of ScyllaDB, including Seastar, their open-source C++ framework. Also, check out Scylla Summit 2021 to learn what’s next for Scylla.

In this episode we discuss:

Enabling Scylla to “gain control” by implementing Apache Cassandra in C++
How Dor and his co-founder were ahead of the curve with their vision for virtualization
Scylla’s unique shard-per-core architecture
Working with distributed teams, even before the COVID-19 pandemic
The growing significance of separating the interface from the engine in open-source
Learn about Project Circe, which is being featured at Scylla Summit 2021 right now

Links:

Scylla
Seastar
Scylla Summit 2021
Apache Cassandra
DynamoDB
MongoDB
Redhat
QEMU
Redis
Vectorized
Apache Hadoop
Apache HBase
Apache Beam
Apache Flink
Apache Spark

People mentioned:

Avi Kivity (@AviKivity)