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Databases Distributed SQL How To Open Source PostgreSQL
May 14, 2020
by Jimmy Guerrero

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

Roland Takacs wrote an interesting blog post titled Oracle vs PostgreSQL: First Glance earlier this month. The genesis for his blog post was that he was in the middle of migrating his current Oracle tech stack to Python, parquet files, and PostgreSQL. As such, Roland thought it might be a good exercise to document the various Oracle features he was accustomed to and figure out what the equivalent functionality was in PostgreSQL.

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Databases Distributed SQL How It Works Open Source PostgreSQL YugabyteDB 2.1
May 12, 2020
by Neha Deodhar

Boosting Performance for Small Distributed SQL Data Sets with Colocated Tables

Editor’s note – This post was updated July 2020 with new release information

An Introduction to 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,

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Community News Databases Distributed SQL Open Source PostgreSQL YugabyteDB 2.1
May 6, 2020
by Jimmy Guerrero

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,

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CockroachDB Community News Databases Distributed SQL Performance Benchmarks PostgreSQL
May 4, 2020
by Karthik Ranganathan

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

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

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CockroachDB Community News Databases Distributed SQL PostgreSQL
May 4, 2020
by Karthik Ranganathan

Bringing Truth to Competitive Benchmark Claims – YugabyteDB vs CockroachDB, Part 1

This 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.

Contents of this post

Introduction

At Yugabyte,

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Amazon Aurora CockroachDB Databases Distributed SQL How It Works PostgreSQL
April 24, 2020
by Sid Choudhury

Why We Built YugabyteDB by Reusing the PostgreSQL Query Layer

Reusing PostgreSQL’s native query layer instead of writing a new PostgresQL-compatible query layer ground up has been one of the best design decisions we have made in YugabyteDB. As outlined in the challenges we faced building a distributed SQL database, we have battle scars to prove this insight – we started writing a PostgreSQL-compatible query layer from scratch before realizing that we simply cannot build the world’s best cloud native RDBMS in a timely manner if we persist down this path.

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Containers Databases Distributed SQL Google Cloud Platform Google Spanner How To Kubernetes PostgreSQL
April 16, 2020
by Sid Choudhury

Spanning the Globe without Google Spanner

Open Source Geo-Distributed Relational Database on Multi-Cluster Kubernetes

Google Spanner, conceived in 2007 for internal use in Google AdWords, has been rightly considered a marvel of modern software engineering. This is because it is the world’s first horizontally-scalable relational database that can be stretched not only across multiple nodes in a single data center but also across multiple geo-distributed data centers,

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Community News Databases Distributed SQL PostgreSQL YugabyteDB 2.1
April 13, 2020
by Jimmy Guerrero

YugabyteDB Engineering Update – April 13, 2020

We 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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