# Alternator (for DynamoDB)

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## Building a New Rust Driver for ScyllaDB's DynamoDB API - with 58% More Throughput

DevFeed: [Building a New Rust Driver for ScyllaDB's DynamoDB API - with 58% More Throughput](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/building-a-new-rust-driver-for-scylladb-s-dynamodb-api-with-58-more-throughput-4881.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.scylladb.com/2026/08/27/new-rust-driver-for-scylladbs-dynamodb-api/>)

Author: Cynthia Dunlop

Published: 2026-08-27T13:10:38Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [ScyllaDB](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/scylladb.md>)

Topics: [SDKs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sdks.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>)

Tags: [alternator-for-dynamodb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/alternator-for-dynamodb.md>), [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [benchmarking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmarking.md>), [drivers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/drivers.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/optimization.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [routing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/routing.md>), [rust](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rust.md>)

### AI overview

The article describes a dedicated Rust driver for ScyllaDB Alternator that load-balances DynamoDB-style requests across cluster nodes. It also covers extending the Latte benchmarking tool for the DynamoDB API and reports approximately 58% higher throughput than the AWS SDK driver on a three-node cluster.

### Source excerpt

How our new Rust driver load-balances DynamoDB-style requests across a ScyllaDB cluster, and how we extended Latte to measure its performance