Overview

Scuttle is managed MariaDB. You get databases and database accounts on a highly available cluster, reachable through one TLS endpoint per cluster, and you create them yourself through the console or the API. ScaiLabs runs the servers, the replication, the failover, the backups and the upgrades.

What you get#

Each cluster is a MariaDB Galera cluster: every committed transaction is replicated synchronously before the commit returns, so a node failure does not lose committed data. You connect to a single endpoint such as db.nlwest-std.scuttle.scailabs.ai:3306. Any MySQL or MariaDB client works; there is no SDK to install.

How it is organised#

Your organisation is a tenant. Inside it you create realms — one per team or product — and hand out roles on them. Databases and accounts live in a realm, and their names carry the tenant and realm as a prefix, for example acme_shop_orders. That prefix is what keeps tenants apart on a shared cluster. See Tenants, realms and names.

Regions and service levels#

A cluster is one region at one service level, named <region>-<level>. At launch there are two: nlwest-std and nlsouth-std, both in the Netherlands. std is a shared cluster. Your databases are served from the region you chose. Backups are encrypted and stored in the other region, also in the Netherlands, so losing one region never takes a database and its backups at once. You can restore any moment of the last 14 days — see The console.

When to use it#

Use Scuttle for transactional application databases that need high availability without running MariaDB yourself. It is not the right fit if you need server-level privileges, MyISAM tables, or the event scheduler — read Limitations before you migrate.