Cassandra Compliant ScyllaDB with Dor Laor

Apache Cassandra is a distributed database that can handle large amounts of data with no single point of failure. Since 2008, Cassandra has been widely adopted and the software and the community around it have grown steadily. A software developer interacting with Cassandra uses CQL, the Cassandra Query Language. ScyllaDB is another open-source database that has been created to be totally compatible with CQL.
By complying with CQL, the internals of ScyllaDB can be a vastly different rewrite from Cassandra. ScyllaDB uses C++, whereas Cassandra uses Java. ScyllaDB improves upon the performance characteristics of Cassandra, by optimizing for modern hardware, and Dor Laor joins the show today to discuss how ScyllaDB does all of this.