There is no magic behind Scylla, mainly lots of hard work, hundreds of years of engineering, based on the former C* design which is based on Dynamo/Bigtable.
The JVM is part of the problem, not all of it. The main issue is that it hides the hardware and makes tracing harder - instruction level and block level. At Scylla we strive for efficiency, every operation is tagged with a priority class for the CPU and I/O schedulers. Folks are welcome to read the blogs about those topic. Lots of details and hard work
The JVM is part of the problem, not all of it. The main issue is that it hides the hardware and makes tracing harder - instruction level and block level. At Scylla we strive for efficiency, every operation is tagged with a priority class for the CPU and I/O schedulers. Folks are welcome to read the blogs about those topic. Lots of details and hard work