Scylla formerly known as Cloudius Systems, is the distributed database for data-intensive apps that require high performance and low latency.
ScyllaDB enables teams to harness the ever-increasing computing power of modern infrastructures--eliminating barriers to scale as data grows.
ScyllaDB was founded in 2012 by Dor Laor & Avi Kivity. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with an additional office in Herzliya, Israel.
Scylladb's NoSQL database that was originally designed to be a drop-in replacement for the open-source Apache Cassandra database, with the promise of providing more scale and performance. The technology has expanded in recent years to also be a competitive replacement for the Amazon DynamoDB database.
ScyllaDB has the ability to perform millions of operations per second with “single-digit millisecond” latency. Running across multiple clouds, on a hybrid cloud setup or on-premises, ScyllaDB automatically tunes I/O and CPU performance with workload prioritization, which co-locate workloads under a single server cluster.
ScyllaDB's database is used by more than 400 companies, including Discord, Epic Games, Disney+ Hotstar, Starbucks, Comcast, Samsung, Expedia, FireEye, and Palo Alto Networks.
ScyllaDB is backed by Qualcomm Ventures, Eight Roads Ventures, Samsung Ventures, AB Private Credit Investors, AllianceBernstein, TLV Partners, Magma Venture Partners, and others. The company raised $43M in a new round on Oct 17, 2023. This brings ScyllaDB's total funding to $93M to date.