Scylla Features¶

The following are new features for Scylla Open Source 3.0.x

Scylla Materialized Views - An alternate view table for finding a partition by the value of another column. Experimental in prior versions, this feature was made production ready in Scylla Open Source 3.0.
Global Secondary Indexes - A mechanism for allowing efficient searches on non-partition keys using Materialized Views. Experimental in prior versions, this feature was made production ready in Scylla Open Source 3.0.
Local Secondary Indexes - More efficient Secondary Index searches when the base table and index share the same partition key. Scylla 3.1 and later.
Hinted Handoff - ensures availability and consistency
SSTable 3.0 - new SSTable format
ALLOW FILTERING CQL Command that allows for server side data filtering that is not based on the primary key.

More information in the Release Notes.

The following are new features for Scylla Scylla Enterprise 2019.1.x

Workload Prioritization - Grant a level of service to roles in your organization. This feature is available as Technical Preview.
Scylla Materialized Views - An alternate view table for finding a partition by the value of another column.
Global Secondary Indexes - A mechanism for allowing efficient searches on non-partition keys using Materialized Views.
Local Secondary Indexes - More efficient Secondary Index searches when the base table and index share the same partition key. Scylla 3.1 and later.
ALLOW FILTERING CQL Command that allows for server side data filtering that is not based on the primary key.
Hinted Handoff - ensures availability and consistency
SSTable 3.0 - new SSTable format
Full (multi-partition) blog describing improvements for fulll scans.
Role Based Access Control (RBAC) - compatible with Apache Cassandra 3.x using CQL commands to grant roles to users in an organization.
GoogleCloudSnitch- optimized for use with GCE instances
Large Partitions Support - Scylla supports large partitions.
Encryption at Rest - protects your data persisted in storage or backup.

Read the Release Notes for more information.

The following are new features for Scylla Scylla Enterprise 2018.1.x

Scylla Auditing Guide - allows administrators to know which users performed what action at what time.
Scylla in-memory tables - an alternative table type for storing data in RAM.
Scylla Counters - A data type for counting
Time Window Compaction Strategy - a replacement compaction strategy for Date-Tiered Compaction Strategy, refined for time-series data.
Heat Weighted Load Balancing a blog entry which investigates what happens if one of the nodes loses its cache and the solution Heat Weighted Load Balancing.

Read the Release Notes for more information.