Boosting Performance for Small Distributed SQL Data Sets with Colocated Tables

An Introduction to Colocated Tables

In YugabyteDB v2.1, we released a new feature in beta: colocated tables. In this post, we’ll explain what colocated tables are in a distributed SQL database, why you would need them, and how to get started.

Relational databases often have a large number of tables and indexes. A lot of these tables are closely related and commonly queried together via joins or subqueries.

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