YugaByte DB

The Distributed SQL Blog

Thoughts on distributed databases, open source, and cloud native

Databases Distributed SQL How To PostgreSQL
December 1, 2020
by Bryn Llewellyn

Using PostgreSQL Aggregate Functions in YugabyteDB to Analyze COVID-19 Data

YugabyteDB is an open source, high-performance distributed SQL database built on a scalable and fault-tolerant design inspired by Google Spanner. YugabyteDB uses its own special distributed document store called DocDB. But it provides SQL and stored procedure functionality by re-using the “upper half” of the standard PostgreSQL source code. This is explained in the two part blog post “Distributed PostgreSQL on a Google Spanner Architecture”: (1) Storage Layer;

…

Read More
Databases Distributed SQL Google Cloud Platform
November 23, 2020
by Jimmy Guerrero

Distributed SQL Summit Recap: How Admiral Scales Globally and Achieves Single Digit Latency

At the Distributed SQL Summit 2020, James Hartig – Co-Founder at Admiral, presented the talk “How Admiral Scales Globally with YugabyteDB on Google Cloud While Maintaining Single-Digit Latency.”

Admiral’s Go application runs in Google Cloud across 5 regions in 3 continents. This geo-distributed architecture is powered by a single YugabyteDB cluster that delivers an average global read latency of 3ms!

…

Read More
Databases Distributed SQL
November 20, 2020
by Dillon Pinto

Distributed SQL Summit Recap: Transforming the Omni-Channel Experience at Kroger

At the Distributed SQL Summit 2020, Mahesh Tyagarajan – VP Engineering, Kroger – presented the talk “Technology Strategy and Transformation”. The talk focused around the technology infrastructure, current challenges, and the need faced by Kroger to transform its technology stack.

Kroger is as big as retail gets

Kroger is the largest supermarket in the US,

…

Read More
Community News Databases Distributed SQL Open Source
November 18, 2020
by Jimmy Guerrero

YugabyteDB Open Source Community Update – November 2020

We just released YugabyteDB 2.5, and open source software like this doesn’t happen without an awesome open source community backing it. As the year draws to a close, we’d like to take the opportunity to call out some YugabyteDB community highlights from 2020.

Our commitment to open source

First, it is worth restating that YugabyteDB doesn’t pay lip service to open source like other database projects.

…

Read More
Community News Company News Databases Distributed SQL Release Announcements
November 12, 2020
by Karthik Ranganathan

What’s New in YugabyteDB 2.5 – Enterprise-Grade Security Features

YugabyteDB Enterprise-Grade Security Features

The YugabyteDB 2.5 release adds many critical enterprise-grade security features. This blog post outlines these newly added features.

Authentication

Adding scram-sha-256 authentication

The first notable addition is the addition of a much improved, password-based authentication mechanism called Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism (or simply SCRAM) as described in RFC5802.

…

Read More
Community News Company News Databases Distributed SQL PostgreSQL Release Announcements
November 12, 2020
by Karthik Ranganathan

Announcing YugabyteDB 2.5

Support for Geo-Partitioning and Enterprise-Grade Security Features

YugabyteDB Adds Support for Geo-Partitioning and Enterprise-Grade Security Features Announcement

Our mission at Yugabyte is to build the default distributed SQL database for cloud native applications in a multi cloud world. To further that mission, this release brings major enhancements to multi-region deployments, performance, and security features offered by the database – while simultaneously improving on high availability,

…

Read More
Databases Distributed SQL Microsoft Azure
November 12, 2020
by Chirag Narang

Introducing Yugabyte Platform on Azure – Beta Release Announcement

We have been hard at work expanding our ecosystem to be available across major cloud infrastructure providers so we can power applications in any cloud or across clouds. In addition to deploying the Yugabyte Platform, our commercial database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offering, natively in AWS and GCP, we’re excited to announce the beta release of the Yugabyte Platform on Microsoft Azure.

…

Read More