Thoughts on distributed databases, open source, and cloud native
After 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 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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We announced the general availability of YugabyteDB 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.
YugabyteDB is an open source database for high performance applications that require ACID transactions and multi-region data distribution. By combining transactional NoSQL and distributed SQL in a single database,
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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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Read MoreWhenever a venture-funded software infrastructure startup takes the open source route to market, a few questions emerge:
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In case you missed the news earlier this Summer, YugaByte raised an additional $16M of funding from Dell Technologies Capital and our previous investor Lightspeed Venture Partners. With the additional funding, we are accelerating investments in engineering, sales, and customer success to scale our support for enterprises building business-critical applications in the cloud.
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Read MoreI am excited to announce that YugaByte has raised $16M in additional funding in a round led by Dell Technologies Capital and our previous investor Lightspeed Venture Partners. Combined with our previous funding of $8M, YugaByte has now raised $24M to solve one of the most challenging problems in operational databases today — a cloud-native,
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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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