Thoughts on distributed databases, open source and cloud native
Welcome to another post from our ongoing series where we highlight a new feature from the latest 1.1 release! Today we are going to look at secondary indexes.
A database index is a data structure that improves the speed of data retrieval operations on a database table. Typically, databases are very efficient at looking up data by the primary key.
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We announced the general availability of YugaByte DB 1.1 earlier this week. You can download the latest version for your OS or use our default container image as documented in our Quick Start page.
YugaByte DB is an open source database for high performance applications that require ACID transactions and multi-region data distribution.
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The team at YugaByte is excited to announce that YugaByte DB 1.1 is officially GA! You can download the latest version from our Quick Start page. New in this release:
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Read MoreIn case you missed the announcement, Ravi Murthy has joined YugaByte as our VP of Engineering. Read on to learn more about his experiences leading the teams who managed the explosive growth of applications and data at Facebook, plus what’s next at YugaByte!
After almost 7 years at Facebook, I am super-excited to start in my new role as YugaByte’s VP of Engineering.
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At YugaByte, our mission is to build a robust, reliable, distributed OLTP database. Needless to say, we take correctness and technical accuracy of our claims very seriously. Therefore, we absolutely love a testing framework like Jepsen which helps verify correctness and are fans of Kyle Kingsbury’s work!
Here is a summary of what we have done so far in regards to Jepsen:
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Read MoreWhenever a venture-funded software infrastructure startup takes the open source route to market, a few questions emerge:
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Read MoreTime for another update from the engineering team at YugaByte! It has been a month since the last update, so let’s dive right in.
On the conference front, YugaByte was at Google Next towards the end of July. YugaByte DB was already very well integrated into the Google Cloud Compute ecosystem,
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Read MoreWelcome to the inaugural edition of the YugaByte DB Community and Engineering update series! Let’s dive in and take a look at what has happened over the last few weeks.
There has been a lot of activity in terms of meetups and events. In June, YugaByte was at DockerCon. We also did a
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Modern user-facing apps, like E-Commerce and SaaS, frequently require features from multiple databases (broadly — SQL, NoSQL and a cache) to support their multi-workload needs. App developers are responsible for understanding and managing which pieces of data should be stored in which SQL and NoSQL database. Furthermore, the app is also responsible for moving data across the tiers (e.g.
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Read MoreTeam YugaByte is delighted to announce the general availability of YugaByte DB 1.0!
It has been an incredibly satisfying experience to, in just two years, build and launch a cloud-scale, transactional and high-performance database that’s already powering real-world production workloads. I wanted to take a moment to share our journey to 1.0 and the road ahead.
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