Project Alternator: The Scylla Open Source Amazon DynamoDB-Compatible API

https://www.scylladb.com/alternator/

by uberdru • 7 years ago

35 3 7 years ago

Design doc here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i4yjF5OSAazAY_-T8CBce9-2...

barrynevio• 7 years ago

So what they're doing is adding a option to Scylla's yaml configuration so Scylla can literally be a drop-in replacement for DynamoDB. No updates to your existing code. Scylla can be downloaded and installed on pretty much any server, so what this means is you are no longer shackled to AWS. Just deploy a Scylla instance anywhere you please, configure it to emulate dynamo's API, point your existing application that normally uses Dynamo to it, and you're up.

My current company has a monthly AWS bill of $100k. C-level people get concerned that all their eggs are in one basket. Also Dynamo is EXPENSIVE when you start scaling. We have been looking into making our applications cloud service agnostic, and Dynamo is a huge blocker.

Scylla is a far superior database anyway, so I think we're going to begin trying this out.

Great job, Scylla team!

Zimnx• 7 years ago

Looks promising, I want to try it outon my project.

Project Alternator: The Scylla Open Source Amazon DynamoDB-Compatible API

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