--- title: Why Databases Should Bypass the Linux Page Cache | daily.dev description: Databases, like ScyllaDB, should bypass the Linux page cache due to its inefficiency in serving database workloads. ScyllaDB uses its own highly efficient... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-databases-should-bypass-the-linux-page-cache-mlrous9mt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why Databases Should Bypass the Linux Page Cache | daily.dev og:description: Databases, like ScyllaDB, should bypass the Linux page cache due to its inefficiency in serving database workloads. ScyllaDB uses its own highly efficient... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-databases-should-bypass-the-linux-page-cache-mlrous9mt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/MlrOuS9Mt.png og:image:alt: Why Databases Should Bypass the Linux Page Cache og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why Databases Should Bypass the Linux Page Cache **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 10 min read · 4 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Databases, like ScyllaDB, should bypass the Linux page cache due to its inefficiency in serving database workloads. ScyllaDB uses its own highly efficient row-based integrated internal cache instead. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@mykytanikitenko42** · 0 upvotes > Cool article, love Scylla :) --- Tags: [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#backend](https://daily.dev/tags/backend), [#storage](https://daily.dev/tags/storage), [#scylladb](https://daily.dev/tags/scylladb) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/why-databases-should-bypass-the-linux-page-cache-mlrous9mt) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Why Databases Should Bypass the Linux Page Cache","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-databases-should-bypass-the-linux-page-cache-mlrous9mt","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-databases-should-bypass-the-linux-page-cache-mlrous9mt"},"datePublished":"2024-03-13T14:35:48.097Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T08:20:02.615Z","description":"Databases, like ScyllaDB, should bypass the Linux page cache due to its inefficiency in serving database workloads. 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