Thoughts on distributed databases, open source and cloud native
Note added on October 31, 2019
A lot has happened since this post was published in July 2019. Back then, the current YugabyteDB version was 1.2.10. And now, it’s 2.0.3. My original text included some caveats and comments like “Until this support is added in a future release…”. Now, no caveats are needed. I therefore revised my text and the companion downloadable code to remove all reference to those earlier,
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Read MoreWe are pleased to announce that YugabyteDB 1.2.11 is live! You can read the release notes of this and previous versions here. This release is shipping with stored procedures support, plus 30 new features, enhancements and bug fixes. Here’s a few highlights from the 1.2.11 release.
What’s YSQL? It’s YugabyteDB’s PostgreSQL-compatible, distributed SQL API.
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Read MoreIqbal Farabi and Tara Baskara, Systems Engineers from GO-JEK Indonesia, recently presented the results of their benchmarking of cloud native databases on Kubernetes at KubeCon Europe in Barcelona. The three databases they benchmarked were CockroachDB, TiDB and YugabyteDB. This post brings their presentation (video recording) and slides (PDF) to the attention of our readers.
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Read MoreIn our previous post “Develop IoT Apps with Confluent Kafka, KSQL, Spring Boot & Distributed SQL”, we highlighted how Confluent Kafka, KSQL, Spring Boot and YugabyteDB can be integrated to develop an application responsible for managing Internet-of-Things (IoT) sensor data. In this post, we will review the challenges and best practices associated with deploying such a stateful streaming application on Kubernetes.
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Read MoreEnterprises of all sizes are embracing rapid modernization of user-facing applications as part of their broader digital transformation strategy. The relational database (RDBMS) infrastructure that such applications rely on suddenly needs to support much larger data sizes and transaction volumes. However, a monolithic RDBMS tends to quickly get overloaded in such scenarios. One of the most common architectures to get more performance and scalability in an RDBMS is to “shard” the data.
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Read MoreWe are pleased to announce that YugabyteDB 1.2.10 is live! You can read the release notes of this and previous versions here. This release is shipping with foreign key support plus 16 new features, enhancements and bug fixes. Here’s a few highlights from the 1.2.10 release:
What’s YSQL? It’s YugabyteDB’s PostgreSQL-compatible,
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Read MoreThe Spring application development framework is arguably the most popular framework among Java developers. However, given its extensive breadth and depth, it can be difficult to learn for new users. As the name suggests, Spring Boot makes it easy to boot up with the Spring framework. It shortens development time by taking an opinionated view of the framework and the associated third-party libraries.
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Read MoreRunaway queries are queries that scan through a large set of data. Such queries consume vast amounts of I/O and CPU resources of the database in the background, even if the results appear as harmless timeouts to the end user or the client application. How do runaway queries get executed in the first place, anyway? Everyone who uses databases has at some point or another entered SELECT * from some_large_table,
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Read MoreIn our previous post “5 Reasons Why Apache Kafka Needs a Distributed SQL Database”, we highlighted why Kafka-based data services need a distributed SQL database like YugabyteDB as their highly scalable, long-term persistent data store. In this post, we show how Confluent Kafka, KSQL, Spring Boot and YugabyteDB can be integrated to develop an application for managing Internet-of-Things (IoT) sensor data.
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Read MoreModern enterprise applications must be super-elastic, adaptable, and running 24/7. However, traditional request-driven architectures entail a tight coupling of applications. For example, App 1 asks for some information from App 2 and waits. App 2 then sends the requested information to App 1. This sort of app-to-app coupling hinders development agility and blocks rapid scaling.
In event-driven architectures,
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