Thoughts on distributed databases, open source, and cloud native
While it is still early days, it is exciting to see the YugabyteDB community hit some cool milestones! We wanted to share them with you, plus update you some additional community related news.
First things first. Recent events that resulted in the death of George Floyd at the hands of police have been traumatic and painful for many of us,
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Read MoreThis is our monthly hiring blog post, part of the hiring series that we started a few months ago. Usually we would mention the exciting things happening in the YugabyteDB community, introduce the amazing Yugabeings who work here, and invite those of you who are interested to check out our open positions. Not this time. While we certainly could do that,
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Read MoreToday, we are releasing a new 451 Research report: Distributed SQL, An Enabler for Globally Consistent Transactional Workloads. The report, which we commissioned, explores how database systems, sitting at the heart of the enterprise, play a key role in digital transformation initiatives.
At Yugabyte, we partner with our customers daily to help accelerate their digital initiatives,
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Read MoreWelcome to this week’s tips and tricks blog where we recap some distributed SQL questions from around the Internet. We’ll also review upcoming events, new documentation, and blogs that have been published since the last post. Got questions? Make sure to ask them on our YugabyteDB Slack channel, Forum, GitHub, or Stackoverflow.
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Read MoreThe strong momentum continues here at Yugabyte! This week we set the record straight regarding some misconceptions published by a competitor. We also released YugabyteDB v2.1.5, and now have more than 1000 members in the YugabyteDB community Slack channel! Never a dull moment in distributed SQL!
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Read MoreWe are excited to announce that YugabyteDB 2.1.5 is GA! The 2.1.5 release shipped with over 40 new enhancements and fixes. Also, yesterday we hit a milestone that we are very proud of–we welcomed our 1000th member to the YugabyteDB community Slack channel! Congrats to Rob Sami for being the 1000th member,
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Read MoreIn part 1 of this blog series, we highlighted multiple factual errors in the Cockroach Labs analysis of YugabyteDB. In this second post we provide the next layer of detail behind YugabyteDB’s architecture, with an emphasis on comparing it to that of CockroachDB’s.
Yugabyte SQL is based on a reuse of PostgreSQL’s native query layer.
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Read MoreThis is the first in a two part blog series which highlights factual errors in the Cockroach Labs analysis of YugabyteDB. In the second post in this series, we provide the next layer of detail behind YugabyteDB’s architecture, with an emphasis on comparing it to that of CockroachDB’s.
At Yugabyte,
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Read MoreWe are excited to announce that YugabyteDB 2.1.3 is GA! You can read the official release notes here. This release shipped with over 60 new enhancements and fixes.
The Yugabyte team has been working from home in order to do our part with social distancing and to help with containment efforts. We have also transitioned to online meetings with our customers,
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Read MoreSince our last hiring post, a lot has changed in the world around us (and even that is an understatement). The coronavirus is having a devastating effect on people and communities around the globe. Now more than a million people have gotten sick (or worse), many others are economically impacted, losing jobs, businesses are shutting down, and activities we perhaps once took for granted–everything from dining out,
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