ScyllaDB has unveiled a new database service named ScyllaDB X, which enhances scalability and reduces costs, building on its wide-column database capability. The service employs Raft for better data distribution and quick scaling of clusters, allowing near-instant service from newly added nodes. This development aims to help businesses manage traffic spikes without overprovisioning, while the company also shifted away from the GNU AGPL licensing to a source-available model, with the first product under this new model expected in April 2025.
"Tablets are designed to support flexible and dynamic data distribution across the cluster. Based on Raft, this new approach provides new levels of elasticity..."
"Since new nodes begin serving requests as soon as they join the cluster, users can spin up new nodes that start serving requests almost instantly..."
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