ScyllaDB Enterprise 2018.1.7 Release Announcement

ScyllaDB has announced the release of ScyllaDB Enterprise 2018.1.7, a minor yet production-ready update to its enterprise NoSQL database solution, focusing on new features and bug fixes for the 2018.1 branch. A highlight of this release is the introduction of in-memory tables, which combine RAM and persistent storage for SSTables to achieve lower and more consistent read latency, making them suitable for mostly-read workloads with small data sizes. These in-memory tables incorporate a proprietary compaction strategy optimized for RAM storage and maintain high availability and persistence by mirroring data to disk. Users can enable this feature in the scylla.yaml configuration and modify table properties using CREATE or ALTER CQL commands. The release also introduces new metrics for monitoring in-memory storage usage and addresses specific bugs, such as stale gossiper application states affecting schema change propagation. ScyllaDB Enterprise customers are encouraged to upgrade to this version with the support of the ScyllaDB team.