Book Excerpt: ScyllaDB, a Different Database

Bo Ingram's book "ScyllaDB in Action" explores the distinctive features of ScyllaDB, a distributed database designed to provide scalability and fault tolerance by replicating data across multiple nodes. Through illustrative hypothetical scenarios, Ingram contrasts ScyllaDB's approach with traditional relational databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL, highlighting the limitations of the latter, such as scalability issues and all-or-nothing availability. ScyllaDB offers a flexible system where users can choose how many nodes must respond to ensure query success, providing a balance between data availability and correctness. This adaptability aims to address the scaling challenges often encountered with conventional databases, making ScyllaDB a compelling alternative for managing large-scale data efficiently.