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Amazon Aurora Amazon Web Services CockroachDB Distributed SQL Performance Benchmarks YugabyteDB 2.0
September 17, 2019
by Karthik Ranganathan

Comparing Distributed SQL Performance – YugabyteDB vs. Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL vs. CockroachDB

Update: A new post “The Effect of Isolation Levels on Distributed SQL Performance Benchmarking” includes performance results from running these workloads at serializable isolation level in YugabyteDB.

We are excited to announce the general availability of YugabyteDB 2.0 this week! One of the flagship features of the release was the production readiness of the PostgreSQL-compatible YugabyteDB SQL (YSQL) API.

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ACID Transactions CockroachDB Distributed SQL How It Works PostgreSQL YugabyteDB 2.0
September 17, 2019
by Jimmy Guerrero

PostgreSQL Compatibility in YugabyteDB 2.0

The team at Yugabyte and members of the community were excited to announce the general availability of YugabyteDB 2.0 this week. One of the flagship features of the release was the production readiness of the PostgreSQL compatible, Yugabyte SQL API (YSQL). In other blogs we covered Jepsen testing results, new performance benchmarks and ecosystem integrations including the GraphQL projects Hasura and Prisma.

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Distributed SQL Ecosystem Integrations YugabyteDB 2.0
September 17, 2019
by Rajkumar Sen

Zero-Downtime Migrations from Oracle to a Cloud-Native PostgreSQL

Today, we are proud to announce that Blitzz and Yugabyte have partnered to accelerate database modernization. Both these companies were founded by engineering leaders with a proven track record in databases and share a common vision of enabling enterprises to replicate and migrate their existing databases to a cloud-native platform. With Yugabyte DB’s Postgres-compatible YSQL API,

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Distributed SQL Ecosystem Integrations PostgreSQL
August 23, 2019
by Jimmy Guerrero

Getting Started with TablePlus on a Distributed SQL Database

If you’re a database developer, you already understand the importance of a tool to manage your databases. Whether it is for creating schemas, ad-hoc querying, backups, or diving deeper to troubleshoot a database issue, a database tool can make your life much easier and increase your productivity. In a previous posts we covered how to get started with DBeaver,

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ACID Transactions Distributed SQL How It Works
August 20, 2019
by Karthik Ranganathan

Low Latency Reads in Geo-Distributed SQL with Raft Leader Leases

Note: This post contains interactive animations that explain how some of these complex algorithms work. Please view this post in a suitable media (at least 1000px by 600px screen resolution) for best results.

In this blog post, we are going to dive deep into the read performance of Raft – why read performance can take a hit and how it can be improved using leader leases.

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Distributed SQL How To PostgreSQL
August 14, 2019
by Jimmy Guerrero

Getting Started with PGAdmin on a Distributed SQL Database

If you’re a database developer, you already understand the importance of a tool to manage your databases. Whether it is for creating schemas, ad-hoc querying, backups, or diving deeper to troubleshoot a database issue, a database tool can make your life much easier and increase your productivity. In a previous post we covered how to get started with DBeaver,

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Community News Company News Distributed SQL YugabyteDB 1.3
August 8, 2019
by Jimmy Guerrero

YugaByte DB Engineering & Community Update – Aug 9, 2019

We are pleased to announce that YugabyteDB 1.3.1 is live! You can read the release notes of this and previous versions here. This release is shipping with 22 new features, enhancements and bug fixes. This release also brings us closer to our 2.0 release which will be shipping in a few weeks. The flagship feature in 2.0 will be the YSQL API becoming generally available.

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Distributed SQL Ecosystem Integrations PostgreSQL
August 1, 2019
by Jimmy Guerrero

Getting Started with SQL Workbench/J on a Distributed SQL Database

Although most databases ship with a command line utility to administer the instance, these utilities often come with a steep learning curve. If using the command line and learning sometimes arcane syntax makes you uncomfortable, there are graphical tools that can help you speed up many daily DBA tasks. In fact, you can find a comprehensive list of tools on the PostgreSQL wiki here.

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