Project Circe January Update

In the January update for Project Circe, ScyllaDB highlights the release of ScyllaDB Open Source 4.3, which marks the general availability of the Change Data Capture feature and introduces an experimental feature for Alternator Streams. This version also involves a significant change by removing the seed node concept in gossip, though it remains in the initialization process. Additionally, ScyllaDB Cloud is now in a beta program for Google Cloud Platform, enabling users to run Apache Cassandra or DynamoDB-compatible workloads. The company also announced the General Availability of the ScyllaDB Operator, allowing Kubernetes management of ScyllaDB clusters, and introduced a new IO scheduler in ScyllaDB 4.4-rc0 aimed at improving performance by balancing bandwidth and IOPS across all shards. These updates were part of the ScyllaDB Summit 2021, with sessions available for on-demand viewing.