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YugaByte DB 1.1 New Feature: Public IPs to Simplify Multi or Hybrid Cloud Database Deployments

Welcome to another post in our ongoing series that highlights new features from the latest 1.1 release announced last week. Today we are going to look at the importance of public IP addresses and hostnames in simplifying multi-cloud and hybrid cloud deployments.

In modern cloud deployments, servers often have a combination of private IP addresses (used in the private LAN and often the IP address of the network interface on the server),

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How It Works How-To YugaByte DB 1.1

October 2, 2018

by Karthik Ranganathan

Understanding How YugaByte DB Runs on Kubernetes

As we reviewed in “Docker, Kubernetes and the Rise of Cloud Native Databases”, Kubernetes has benefited from rapid adoption to become the de-facto choice for container orchestration. This has happened in a short span of only 4 years since Google open sourced the project in 2014. YugaByte DB’s automated sharding and strongly consistent replication architecture lends itself extremely well to containerized deployments powered by Kubernetes orchestration.

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How-To Kubernetes

August 17, 2018

by Sid Choudhury

A Quick Guide to Secondary Indexes in YugaByte DB

When creating a Cassandra-compatible YCQL table in YugaByte DB, you are required to create a primary key consisting of one or more columns of the table. Primary key based retrievals are efficient because YugaByte DB automatically indexes/organizes the data by the primary key. However, there are many use-cases where you may need to retrieve data using columns that are not a part of the primary key.

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How It Works How-To

August 1, 2018

by Karthik Ranganathan

Yes We Can! Distributed ACID Transactions with High Performance

ACID transactions are a fundamental building block when developing business-critical, user-facing applications. They simplify the complex task of ensuring data integrity while supporting highly concurrent operations. While they are taken for granted in monolithic SQL/relational DBs, distributed NoSQL/non-relational DBs either forsake them completely or support only a highly restrictive single-row flavor (see sections below). This loss of ACID properties is usually justified with a gain in performance (measured in terms of low latency and/or high throughput).

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ACID Transactions How It Works How-To Performance & Benchmarks

April 24, 2018

by Karthik Ranganathan

Orchestrating Stateful Apps with Kubernetes StatefulSets

Kubernetes, the open source container orchestration engine that originated from Google’s Borg project, has seen some of the most explosive growth ever recorded in an open source project. The complete software development lifecycle involving stateless apps can now be executed in a more consistent, efficient and resilient manner than ever before. However, the same is not true for stateful apps — containers are inherently stateless and Kubernetes did not do anything special in the initial days to change that.

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How It Works How-To Kubernetes

April 17, 2018

by Sid Choudhury

Overcoming MongoDB Sharding and Replication Limitations with YugaByte DB

A few of our early users have chosen to build their new cloud applications on YugaByte DB even though their current primary datastore is MongoDB. Starting with the v3.4 release in Nov 2016, MongoDB has made improvements in its sharding and replication architecture that has allowed it to be re-classified as a Consistent and Partition-tolerant (CP) database and move away from its Available and Partition-tolerant (AP) origins.

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How It Works How-To MongoDB

March 7, 2018

by Sid Choudhury

Building Scalable Cloud Services — An Instant Messaging App

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47276519/how-should-i-or-should-not-use-cassandra-and-redis-together-to-build-a-scalable

This is the first post in a series about building real-world, distributed cloud services using a transactional cloud database like YugaByte DB.

We are going to look at how to build a scalable chat or messaging application like Facebook Messages. This is close to heart to a number of us at YugaByte — we were the team behind the database platform that powers the Facebook Messages app.

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How-To

February 2, 2018

by Karthik Ranganathan