Thoughts on distributed databases, open source, and cloud native
We are excited to announce the general availability of YugabyteDB 2.0! The highlight of this release is that it delivers production readiness for Yugabyte SQL (YSQL), our high-performance, fully-relational distributed SQL API. For those of you new to distributed SQL, YugabyteDB is a Google Spanner-inspired, cloud-native distributed SQL database that is 100% open source.
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Read MoreI recently joined Yugabyte as a Developer Advocate focused on Kubernetes. I will focus on the usability and extensibility of YugabyteDB as a data platform within the Kubernetes and public cloud ecosystem. However, in broader terms, I will be able to leverage YugabyteDB as a cloud-native database that can easily deployed in multi-cloud environments. There are a few things I am looking forward to in my new role:
When I was graduating from college with a degree in Software Engineering,
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Read MoreYugaByte is excited to announce that speaker schedule for this year’s Distributed SQL Summit is live!
Distributed SQL Summit is a full day of talks from experts on what it takes to build, deploy and scale distributed SQL databases in the cloud and on Kubernetes.
Presented in partnership with PostgresConf,
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Read MoreWe are pleased to announce that YugabyteDB 1.3.1 is live! You can read the release notes of this and previous versions here. This release is shipping with 22 new features, enhancements and bug fixes. This release also brings us closer to our 2.0 release which will be shipping in a few weeks. The flagship feature in 2.0 will be the YSQL API becoming generally available.
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Read MoreWe are excited to announce that YugabyteDB is now 100% open source under the Apache 2.0 license. This means previously closed-source, commercial, enterprise features such as Distributed Backups, Data Encryption and Read Replicas are now available in the open source project and are completely free to use. Same applies to upcoming new features like Change Data Capture and 2 Data Center Deployments.
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Read MoreWe are very excited to announce the arrival of YugabyteDB 1.3. This post will outline some of the major milestones in this release.
In this release, all the enterprise features in the core DB are now available in open source under the Apache 2.0 license! Effective v1.3,
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Read MoreA 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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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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