Thoughts on distributed databases, open source and cloud native
Updated April 2019.
The famed CAP Theorem has been a source of much debate among distributed systems engineers. Those of us building distributed databases are often asked how we deal with it. In this post, we dive deeper into the consistency-availability tradeoff imposed by CAP which is only applicable during failure conditions.
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Today, we are launching YugaByte out of stealth and announcing the availability of YugaByte DB’s first public beta release. YugaByte offers an open-source, cloud-native database for mission-critical applications. Yuga in Sanskrit represents an era or an epoch (about 4.32 million human years), a very long period of time. We picked the name YugaByte to signify data that lives forever without limits.
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Read MoreUpdated March 2019.
Ever wondered which database Facebook (FB) uses to store the profiles of its 2.3B+ users? Is it SQL or NoSQL? How has FB database architecture evolved over the last 15+ years? As an engineer in FB database infrastructure team from 2007 to 2013, I had a front row seat in witnessing this evolution.
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