Overview
- ScyllaDB announced general availability of X Cloud, a fully managed NoSQL service positioned as a high-performance alternative to DynamoDB.
- The company guarantees X Cloud bills at 50% or less of DynamoDB costs for equivalent storage and workloads.
- ScyllaDB reports scaling from 100,000 to 2 million operations per second in minutes with single-digit millisecond P99 latency during scaling, backups, and recovery.
- New capabilities include tablet-level autoscaling, advanced compression up to 80%, data streaming up to 25X faster with nearly 3X less transfer, higher storage utilization near 90%, storage autoscaling, and mixed node sizes.
- Elastic scaling now covers CDC, materialized views, secondary indexes, and the DynamoDB-compatible Alternator API, with analysts citing improved predictability and urging progress on tiered storage, vector features, and simpler migrations.