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April 10, 2019

Distributed SQL on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with YugaByte DB’s Helm Chart

The 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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Docker How To Kubernetes

February 12, 2019

by Sid Choudhury

How to Monitor YugaByte DB with Prometheus on Docker?

Observability is absolutely vital to operating business-critical data infrastructure at scale. This is why observability is not an afterthought in the YugaByte DB architecture. Every layer of YugaByte DB exposes metrics in the Prometheus format at the /prometheus-metrics endpoint. Given that Prometheus is essentially the de-facto standard for build-your-own infrastructure monitoring and alerting, you can get started with monitoring YugaByte DB in almost no time.

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Apache Cassandra How It Works How To

January 23, 2019

by Jimmy Guerrero

How to Migrate Data from Cassandra or MySQL to YugaByte DB?

If you work with databases, at some point you are going to need to get data in and out them using a format that can be consumed by a completely different system. YugaByte DB makes use of CSV files to make this as easy as possible. The CSV format is arguably the most universally portable way to get data migrations accomplished.

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Apache Cassandra Community News How It Works How To Performance Benchmarks

November 27, 2018

by Karthik Ranganathan

YugaByte Database Engineering Update – Nov 27, 2018

Lots has happened since our last engineering update about 3 months ago. Below are some of the highlights.

PostgreSQL API Updates & PostgresConf Silicon Valley Wrap-Up

We have made a lot of progress on YSQL, the PostgreSQL compatible distributed SQL API for YugaByte DB! You can also read about YSQL architecture which covers how distributed SQL is implemented in YugaByte DB.

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How It Works How To Performance Benchmarks YugaByte DB 1.1

November 19, 2018

by Alan Caldera

Distributed Backups in Multi-Region YugaByte DB Clusters

Our post Getting Started with Distributed Backups in YugaByte DB details the core architecture powering distributed backups in YugaByte DB. It also highlights a few backup/restore operations in a single region, multi-AZ cluster. In this post, we perform distributed backups in a multi-region YugaByte DB cluster and verify that we achieve performance characteristics similar to those observed in a single region cluster.

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How It Works How To Performance Benchmarks YugaByte DB 1.1

November 19, 2018

by Kannan Muthukkaruppan

Getting Started with Distributed Backups in YugaByte DB

YugaByte DB is a distributed database with a Google Spanner-inspired strongly consistent replication architecture that is purpose-built for high availability and high performance. This architecture allows administrators to place replicas in independent fault domains, which can be either availability zones or racks in a single region or different regions altogether. These types of multi-AZ or multi-region deployments have the immediate advantage of guaranteeing organizations a higher order of resilience in the event of a zone or region failure.

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Apache Cassandra How To PostgreSQL

November 14, 2018

by Ravi Murthy

Presto on YugaByte DB: Interactive OLAP SQL Queries Made Easy

Presto is a distributed SQL query engine optimized for OLAP queries at interactive speed. It was created by Facebook and open-sourced in 2012. Since then, it has gained widespread adoption and become a tool of choice for interactive analytics. It supports standard ANSI SQL, including complex queries, aggregations, joins, and window functions. It has a connector architecture to query data from many data sources such as SQL and NoSQL databases as well as traditional big data platforms such as Hive/Hadoop.

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How It Works How To YugaByte DB 1.1

October 2, 2018

by Karthik Ranganathan

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 To Kubernetes

August 17, 2018

by Sid Choudhury

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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