Our Top NoSQL Blogs of the Year: Rust, Raft, MongoDB, Books & Tablets

As 2023 comes to an end, a retrospective highlights the top 10 NoSQL blog posts of the year, emphasizing advancements and insights in NoSQL technologies, with a special focus on ScyllaDB. These blogs cover a range of topics, including the introduction of a new book offering guidance on optimizing data-intensive applications, ScyllaDB's shift to a new replication algorithm using tablets for improved elasticity, and comparative analysis of ScyllaDB with MongoDB and PostgreSQL in terms of performance, scalability, and cost. Notable discussions also include Numberly's replacement of Kafka with a Rust-based ScyllaDB application, ScyllaDB's new Raft-based schema management, and intriguing yet overlooked ScyllaDB capabilities. Additionally, the list revisits timeless classics from previous years, showcasing enduring contributions to the NoSQL community, such as performance optimizations in Google's B-Tree implementation and revolutionary programming techniques with io_uring and eBPF.