Data is going to the cloud in real-time, and so is ScyllaDB 5.0

ScyllaDB started with the aim of becoming a drop-in replacement for Cassandra. It’s growing to become more than that.
Two years is a long time in technology these days. That was true before COVID-19, and it certainly is true now. It’s been almost two years since the last major version 4.0 of open-source NoSQL database ScyllaDB was released in 2020. A couple of years later, with ScyllaDB announcing version 5.0, it’s a good time to check back.
How have the realities of databases and data management in general been evolving? And how has ScyllaDB been keeping up? We connected with ScyllaDB co-founder and CEO Dor Laor to discuss the details of the new release, as well developments in the database world.
We first covered ScyllaDB on ZDNet back in 2017. Its story is one of deep tech, open source, and pivots. Started by Hypervisor and Linux Red Hat veterans Dor Laor and Avi Kivity, the database that positions itself as a faster Apache Cassandra did not set out as a database at all. Having embarked on that course, however, it remains set.
Laor is a very technically oriented CEO, who prefers to dive in head-first to an analysis of what ScyllaDB 5.0 brings to the table on the technical front. However, we thought we’d start with the overall trends driving technical developments, which Laor also acknowledged.