ScyllaDB on Samsung NVMe Z-SSDs

Organizations are increasingly adopting Solid State Drives (SSDs) like Samsung's Z-SSD in data centers for enhanced performance and reduced latency, making them an ideal match for database solutions such as ScyllaDB. The Samsung Z-SSD, with storage capacities up to 800GB, boasts impressive performance metrics, supporting up to 3.2 GB/s in sequential read and write operations, and significantly outperforming other SSDs in latency tests. At the ScyllaDB Summit 2017, it was demonstrated that running ScyllaDB on the Z-SSD bridges the performance gap between memory and storage, achieving 44-23% of RAM performance at a reduced cost, with up to 75% of requests served from memory. This combination of ScyllaDB with the Z-SSD could lead to further improvements in memory/storage efficiency with future software updates, providing a cost-effective solution for handling large-scale data operations.