SLOconf is the only event dedicated to the
practice and application of Service Level Objectives (SLOs). Taking place May
15-18, SLOconf 2023 is a virtual event now in its third year. The agenda will include
more than 70 speakers with presentations laser-focused on all aspects of SLOs.
In this exclusive pre-show Q&A, we're
speaking with Wayne Ariola, CxO at ScyllaDB. ScyllaDB is a distributed
database for data-intensive apps that require high performance and low latency.
VMblog: To kick things off, give VMblog readers a
quick overview of the company.
Wayne Ariola: ScyllaDB is the database
for data-intensive
applications that
require high throughput and low latency. It enables teams to harness the
ever-increasing computing power of modern infrastructures - eliminating
barriers to scale as data grows. Unlike any other database, ScyllaDB is built
with deep architectural advancements that enable exceptional end-user
experiences at radically lower costs. Over 400 game-changing companies like Disney+ Hotstar,
Expedia, Discord, Crypto.com, Zillow, Starbucks, Comcast, and Samsung use
ScyllaDB for their toughest database challenges.
VMblog: What are the market needs or problems that
your company is solving for these attendees?
Ariola: ScyllaDB enables today's top gamechangers (Discord, Disney+
Hotstar, Hulu, Zillow, Tripadvisor, Expedia...) to power engaging experiences
with impressive speed - and at rapidly-increasing scale. We help
data-intensive applications handle more data, faster, and at a lower cost
because we efficiently tap the power of modern cloud infrastructure. ScyllaDB
is scalable to terabytes or petabytes storage, and capable of millions of IOPS
at single-digit millisecond latencies.
VMblog: What sets you apart from the
competition?
Ariola: ScyllaDB is uniquely architected to capitalize on
continuing hardware innovations. Its close-to-the-metal, shared nothing design
delivers greater performance for a fraction of the cost of DynamoDB, Apache
Cassandra, MongoDB, and Google Bigtable. While other NoSQL databases are
effectively insulated from the underlying hardware, ScyllaDB fully capitalizes
on processor, memory, network, and storage innovation to maximize performance
and use less infrastructure.
VMblog: Is your company launching anything new at the
show? Can
you give us a sneak peek?
Ariola: We recently announced some major ScyllaDB updates,
including ScyllaDB Serverless, extensions to our open source DynamoDB API, and
a major milestone on our path to strong consistency. There are a number of
posts about these topics on the ScyllaDB blog.
VMblog: What are the trends your company is seeing
that we should be aware of in 2023 and beyond?
Ariola: The forces driving this next tech cycle not only mean more
data, but also new pressures on the database. Organizations are now performing
up to 100x more queries than before, on data sets that are often 10x larger
than before. Data is being enriched, cleaned, streamed, fed into AI/ML
pipelines, replicated, and cached from multiple sources. That's why it's more
important than ever to have a database that's up to the task.
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