What’s Trending on the ScyllaDB Community Forum: Summer 2023

The ScyllaDB Community Forum serves as a hub for both new and experienced users of ScyllaDB, the high-performance NoSQL database, to exchange knowledge and troubleshoot issues, with recent discussions covering a broad range of topics. Participants have explored the feasibility and impact of maintaining up to a trillion records in a single table, the practical limits on the number of tables in a keyspace, and the differences in CPU consumption under various Linux kernels after executing specific commands. Other discussions have focused on the redistribution of data when nodes are added or removed, potential performance degradation with large row sizes, and the evolution of Cassandra’s data model from schema-less to schema-based. Additionally, participants have debated strategies for querying tables efficiently, such as using paging to minimize latency.