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We crossed the three year mark of developing YugabyteDB in February of this year. It has been a thrilling journey thus far, but not without its fair share of technical challenges. There were times when we had to go back to the drawing board and even sift through academic research to find a better solution than what we had at hand.
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Read MoreThe glory days of the heavy-weight hypervisor are slowly fading away, and in the last few years, containerization of applications and services is the new reality. With containerization, enterprises can prototype, deploy, and meet scale demands more quickly. To systematically and efficiently manage these large-scale deployments, enterprises have bet on technologies like Kubernetes (aka k8s), a powerful container orchestrator, to get the job done.
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Read MoreToday’s developers understand that the key requirement to converting and retaining customers is all about delivering fast and responsive experiences, while remaining resilient to failures and compliant with data governance regulations. YugaByte DB is purpose built for geo-distributed applications that require high availability, high performance and regulatory compliance. In this blog, we are going to “look under the hood,” to explore exactly how YugaByte DB distributes data across multiple clouds,
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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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Read MoreOur previous post dived into the details of the storage layer of YugabyteDB called DocDB, a distributed document store inspired by Google Spanner. This post focuses on Yugabyte SQL (YSQL), a distributed, highly resilient, PostgreSQL-compatible SQL API layer powered by DocDB. A follow-up post will highlight the challenges faced and lessons learned when engineering such a database.
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Read MoreIn this post, we’ll dive into the architecture of the distributed storage layer of YugabyteDB, which is inspired by Google Spanner’s design. Our subsequent post covers the Query Layer, where the storage layer meets PostgreSQL as the SQL API. Finally, here is a follow-up post that highlights the key technical challenges we faced while engineering a distributed SQL database like YugabyteDB.
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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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Read MoreIn the first post of our series comparing YugaByte DB with PostgreSQL and MongoDB, we mapped the core concepts in YugaByte DB to the two popular databases. This post is a deeper dive into the high availability and transactions architecture of these databases.
Almost all databases including YugaByte DB use replication to ensure that the database remains highly available under failures.
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Read MoreIf you are developing a new distributed application or are extending an existing one with a new set of microservices, chances are you are going to need to store data in a distributed SQL database. The plethora of niche databases that have emerged over the last decade make the task of selecting a database challenging. With many databases, each with its own nomenclature and nuances to choose from,
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Read MoreThis blog post was co-authored by Mikhail Bautin and Kannan Muthukkaruppan
As described in our previous post “How We Built a High Performance Document Store on RocksDB?”, YugabyteDB’s distributed document store (DocDB) uses RocksDB as its per-node storage engine. We made multiple performance and data density related enhancements to RocksDB in the course of embedding it into DocDB’s document storage layer (figure below).
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