Thoughts on distributed databases, open source, and cloud native
A lot is happening at YugabyteDB since we announced 1.2, so we thought we’d provide the community with a quick recap of engineering highlights, announcements and shout outs to catch everyone up. Let’s dive in!
Check out our “Roadmap for YugabyteDB 2.0” to get more details on the exciting features shipping in the next big release this Summer!
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Read MoreThe YugabyteDB community is eagerly looking forward to v2.0, the next major release expected in Summer 2019. Needless to say, we are very excited about the depth and breadth of features in this release. Here’s an overview of the various areas we expect the new release to cover.
YSQL is YugabyteDB’s PostgreSQL wire-compatible distributed SQL API.
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Read MoreI’m thrilled at the prospect of what lies ahead of me in my new job at YugaByte. I’ve just started in the role of Developer Advocate for YugaByte DB. This is an open source, cloud native, distributed SQL database—in other words, a database for the modern world. There’s an excellent brief description here.
I made this move a couple of weeks ago after almost thirty years at Oracle.
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Read MoreIf you missed the April 30 webinar with Kyle Kingsbury, the creator of Jepsen and Karthik Ranganathan, CTO at YugaByte, you can check out the playback here and download the slides here.
Kyle did a great deep-dive into his testing approach, research methodology and what he found when applied to YugaByte DB.
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You can join the discussion about the results on HackerNews here.
Last year we published our DIY Jepsen testing results – including the tests and failure modes implemented as well as the bugs found. We recently engaged Kyle Kingsbury, the creator of the Jepsen test suite, for an official analysis and are happy to report that YugabyteDB 1.2 formally passes Jepsen tests using the YCQL API.
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The team at YugaByte is excited to announce that YugaByte DB 1.2 is officially GA! You can download the latest version from our Quick Start page.
YugaByte SQL (YSQL) is our PostgreSQL v11 compatible, distributed SQL API. It is ideal for powering microservices that require low latency,
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Read MoreAfter launching YugaByte DB in November 2017, Team YugaByte celebrated 2018 as its first full year in the market as a cloud native, transactional database company. Exhilarating is the one word that best summarizes our 2018 experience. From a product and engineering standpoint, we launched two major releases (and tens of minor releases) and saw users adopt each of the releases at an amazing pace.
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YugaByte is excited to be at KubeCon today to announce Kubernetes StatefulSets support for our distributed SQL API which complements the transactional NoSQL APIs already generally available. YSQL is YugaByte DB’s PostgreSQL-compatible Distributed SQL API (currently in Beta). This new feature, available in YugaByte DB 1.1.7, cloud-native applications and microservices can rely on SQL and NoSQL to take full advantage of Kubernetes StatefulSets to power horizontally scalable,
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Read MoreLots has happened since our last engineering update about 3 months ago. Below are some of the highlights.
We have made a lot of progress on YSQL, the PostgreSQL compatible distributed SQL API for YugaByte DB! You can also read about YSQL architecture which covers how distributed SQL is implemented in YugaByte DB.
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Read MoreYugaByte’s mission from day one has been to simplify operational database infrastructure. We are doing so by bringing together the best aspects of SQL and NoSQL into a single transactional, high-performance database. I am pleased to announce a key milestone in our mission with the formal introduction of YSQL, YugaByte DB’s PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL API, as part of the recent 1.1 release.
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