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Databases How To
July 27, 2021
by Suda Srinivasan

Geo-Distribution in YugabyteDB: Engineering Around the Physics of Latency

Customers today expect always-on, highly responsive access to services wherever they are in the world. This is driving businesses to deploy globally distributed applications that deliver better customer experiences. Moving to a geo-distributed database is a key part of this. Moving data closer to where the end-users are enables lower latency access. Geo-distribution can make the data service resilient to zone and region failures in the cloud.

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Distributed SQL How To PostgreSQL
July 23, 2021
by Franck Pachot

Connecting to YugabyteDB with Arctype, a Collaborative SQL Client

YugabyteDB is PostgreSQL compatible. It uses the same protocol and SQL layer as PostgreSQL. This makes YugabyteDB compatible with a majority of database tools, because PostgreSQL is the most popular open source database on the planet. Here is an example with Arctype, a user-friendly collaborative SQL client to query and visualize data.

Setting up a database connection

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Apache Kafka How To
July 21, 2021
by Suranjan Kumar

Getting Started with the Kafka Connect for YugabyteDB (beta)

Kafka Connect is a popular tool for scaling and reliably streaming data between Apache Kafka and other data systems. It ships with a JDBC Sink which is used to insert data from Kafka to a database. Although the default JDBC Sink is good for many popular RDBMS it isn’t optimized for distributed SQL databases that provide linear scalability and high availability like YugabyteDB.

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Databases Distributed SQL How To
July 16, 2021
by Dillon Pinto

Distributed SQL Summit Asia Recap: How Xignite Delivers Financial Data at Scale

At Distributed SQL Summit Asia, Qin Yu – VP, Engineering, Xignite – presented a talk on how Xignite uses YugabyteDB to power its technology infrastructure to meet the current and future data needs of its financial services and fintech customers.

Xignite – A pioneer in market data innovation

Xignite is on a mission of “making market data easy.” It does this by offering a cloud-based Market Data Management Solution that aggregates and manages market data in the cloud,

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Databases Distributed SQL How To
July 9, 2021
by Marko Rajcevic

Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – July 9th, 2021

Welcome back to our bi-weekly tips and tricks blog where I have the pleasure of recapping some distributed SQL questions from around the Internet. This blog series would not be possible without all of the behind the scenes and community work done by YugabyteDB members such as Dorian Hoxha and Frits Hoogland. All of us here at Yugabyte also have to thank our incredible user community for their work with the technology,

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Databases Distributed SQL How To
June 29, 2021
by Sanket Kedia

Auto-Balancing Data in YugabyteDB, a Distributed SQL Database

YugabyteDB is a distributed, fault tolerant and highly available database with extremely low latencies for reads and writes. Data in YugabyteDB is sharded, replicated and balanced across multiple nodes that can potentially be in different availability zones, regions or even clouds for that matter. In this blog post, we look at how data balancing happens in YugabyteDB and some of the key features of YugabyteDB’s “Cluster Balancer.”

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Community News Company News Distributed SQL How To
June 23, 2021
by Nikhil Chandrappa

Deploy a Real-Time Polling App with Hasura Cloud and Yugabyte Cloud

Hasura is a leading vendor in the GraphQL ecosystem, offering a powerful alternative to REST for building microservices and mobile applications. Hasura’s open source GraphQL Engine connects to your database and instantly auto-generates a production-ready GraphQL API backend. YugabyteDB, the open source distributed SQL database, is a perfect complement to GraphQL giving you horizontal scalability, fault tolerance, and global data distribution in a single system.

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Databases Distributed SQL How To
June 17, 2021
by Aravind Nallan

Reads in YugabyteDB – Tuning Consistency, Latency and Fault Tolerance

Introduction

YugabyteDB is built primarily to be a CP database per the CAP theorem. It supports two interfaces – YSQL for SQL workloads and YCQL for Cassandra-like workloads. In this blog, we will primarily talk about the YCQL interface. When an application interacts with the database using the YCQL interface, the writes are always consistent and reads are consistent by default.

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Databases Distributed SQL Docker How To
June 11, 2021
by Eric Pratt

Migrating MySQL to YugabyteDB Using pgloader

We understand that database migrations can be painful. We have helped users successfully migrate from MySQL to YugabyteDB, a PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL database. A very popular tool to accomplish this task is pgloader. In this post, we will cover how to migrate both your MySQL schema as well as data to YugabyteDB.

Prerequisites

Before starting the migration there are a few prerequisites you’ll need to address.

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