Databases

Highly Available Prometheus Metrics for Distributed SQL with Thanos on GKE

May 26, 2020

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Highly Available Prometheus Metrics for Distributed SQL with Thanos on GKE

In the last few years, Prometheus has gained huge popularity as a tool for monitoring distributed systems. It has a simple yet powerful data model and query language, however, it can often pose a bit of a challenge when it comes to high availability as well as for historical metric data storage. Adding more Prometheus replicas can be used to improve availability, but otherwise, Prometheus does not offer continuous availability. For example, if one of the Prometheus replicas crashes,

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Follow-up: Evaluating CockroachDB vs YugabyteDB Webinar

May 22, 2020

By Michelle Brinich

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Follow-up: Evaluating CockroachDB vs YugabyteDB Webinar

Earlier this week, Yugabyte CTO Karthik Ranganathan presented the live webinar: Evaluating CockroachDB vs YugabyteDB, with a spotlight on comparing PostgreSQL features, architecture, and the latest performance benchmarks between the two databases. We were delighted to see such interest in the topic, dive deeper into some of the topics we raised in parts 1 and parts 2 of the blog series, Bringing Truth to Competitive Benchmark Claims – YugabyteDB vs CockroachDB, and answer questions from the audience.

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Building the Cloud Native Future – Why I Joined Yugabyte

May 19, 2020

By Bill Cook

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Building the Cloud Native Future – Why I Joined Yugabyte

I am incredibly proud and honored to be taking on a new role as CEO of Yugabyte. When I started talking with Yugabyte’s founders, Karthik, Kannan and Mikhail, about joining the Yugabyte executive team, I was hooked. I immediately felt a strong alignment between my experiences and goals, and the opportunities ahead at Yugabyte. A lot goes into finding the right role at the right time, but three things in particular really stood out and inspired me to join Yugabyte.

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May 19, 2020

By Kannan Muthukkaruppan

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Welcome Bill Cook as Yugabyte’s New CEO

I’m excited to welcome Bill Cook to the team as the new CEO of Yugabyte! Bill is an extraordinary leader with an exemplary record of building and scaling enterprise infrastructure companies. Bill joins us from Pivotal Software where, as co-founder and President, he was part of the leadership team that helped solidify the company as the gold standard in cloud native software development and led Pivotal through its IPO and subsequent merger with VMware in 2019.

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Oracle vs PostgreSQL: First Glance – Testing YugabyteDB’s Compatibility

May 14, 2020

By Jimmy Guerrero

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Oracle vs PostgreSQL: First Glance – Testing YugabyteDB’s Compatibility

This post explores the compatibility of YugabyteDB with Oracle and PostgreSQL by examining 15 different Oracle features and their PostgreSQL equivalents highlighted in Roland Takacs’ blog post “Oracle vs PostgreSQL: First Glance.” As a PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL database, YugabyteDB offers a broad range of SQL features, making it an interesting choice for those looking to migrate from Oracle to a modern tech stack.

New 451 Research Report: Distributed SQL

May 13, 2020

By Michelle Brinich

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New 451 Research Report: Distributed SQL

Today, 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, and we get a front-row seat as their business-critical applications scale to billions and billions of operations per day,

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Boosting Performance for Small Distributed SQL Data Sets with Colocated Tables

May 12, 2020

By Neha Deodhar

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Boosting Performance for Small Distributed SQL Data Sets with Colocated Tables

In YugabyteDB v2.1, we released a new feature in beta: colocated tables. And we were excited to announce the general availability of colocated tables, along with many other exciting new features, in YugabyteDB 2.2. In this post, we’ll explain what colocated tables are in a distributed SQL database, why you would need them, and how to get started.

May 8, 2020

By Dorian Hoxha

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Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – May 8, 2020

Welcome 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. Ok, let’s dive right in:

How can I connect YugabyteDB with Apache Spark?

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May 6, 2020

By Jimmy Guerrero

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YugabyteDB Engineering Update – May 6, 2020

YugabyteDB Release Updates

We 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, and thank you to the entire YugabyteDB community for your contributions and support along the way.

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Bringing Truth to Competitive Benchmark Claims – YugabyteDB vs CockroachDB, Part 2

May 4, 2020

By Karthik Ranganathan

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Bringing Truth to Competitive Benchmark Claims – YugabyteDB vs CockroachDB, Part 2

In 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.

Contents of this post

TLDR
Query layer – reusing PostgreSQL
Storage layer – engineered for performance at scale
A deep dive into performance at large data sizes
Detailed YCSB results
Understanding performance in distributed SQL
- Large vs small data sets
- Range vs hash sharding
Conclusion

TLDR

Yugabyte SQL is based on a reuse of PostgreSQL’s native query layer.

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Databases

How can I connect YugabyteDB with Apache Spark?

YugabyteDB Release Updates

Contents of this post

TLDR

Explore Distributed SQL and YugabyteDB in Depth