Getting Started · beginner

Practical First Steps with ScyllaDB

Get started with ScyllaDB: see what makes it fast, launch a ScyllaDB Cloud cluster, run a 1 million ops/sec demo, and run your first queries in a browser-based lab.

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v8dffe70 · last updated 27-10-26

Duration 47min

Units 6

Labs 2

Level beginner

Format Self-paced

An introductory course to get you up and running with ScyllaDB: what makes it fast, launching a ScyllaDB Cloud cluster, a 1 million ops/sec demo you run yourself, and a hands-on quick-start lab.

What you'll build

A ScyllaDB Cloud cluster you launch and connect to, a 1 million ops/sec benchmark you run and monitor yourself, and a ScyllaDB node you start and query in a browser-based lab.

By the end

Understand what ScyllaDB is and how its shard-per-core design delivers low latency at high throughput
Launch a ScyllaDB Cloud cluster and connect to it with cqlsh
Run a 1 million operations per second demo and monitor it on Grafana dashboards
Start a ScyllaDB node and run your first queries in a hands-on lab

Prerequisites

Basic familiarity with databases
The browser-based labs need no local setup
The 1 million ops/sec demo lab needs Docker, an AWS account and a ScyllaDB Cloud account, and creates billable resources