Full-Text Search, Object Storage Backend, and More in ScyllaDB 2026.3

This post details the introduction of Full-Text Search (FTS) in ScyllaDB 2026.3, enabling keyword searches via a new `fulltext_index` and `MATCH()` function with BM25 relevance scoring. It also announces a preview of an S3 object storage backend for ScyllaDB clusters, particularly beneficial for write-intensive, storage-bound use cases. The release includes large data guardrails for cluster stability, covering large partitions, rows, cells, and collections with soft and hard limits. A new cluster-wide restore operation from object storage for tablet-based tables is introduced, allowing direct replica downloads from buckets. OCI support is enhanced with native backup and restore to OCI Object Storage.