Thoughts on distributed databases, open source, and cloud native
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 document data modeling using the native JSON data type available in YugaByte DB’s Cassandra compatible YCQL API. Note that this data type is specific to YugaByte DB and is not part of the standard Cassandra Query Language (CQL).
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Read MoreWelcome to another post from our ongoing series where we highlight a new feature from the latest 1.1 release! Today we are going to look at secondary indexes.
A database index is a data structure that improves the speed of data retrieval operations on a database table. Typically, databases are very efficient at looking up data by the primary key.
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We announced the general availability of YugabyteDB 1.1 earlier this week. You can download the latest version for your OS or use our default container image as documented in our Quick Start page.
YugabyteDB is an open source database for high performance applications that require ACID transactions and multi-region data distribution. By combining transactional NoSQL and distributed SQL in a single database,
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The team at YugaByte is excited to announce that YugaByte DB 1.1 is officially GA! You can download the latest version from our Quick Start page. New in this release:
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Read MoreTime for another update from the engineering team at YugaByte! It has been a month since the last update, so let’s dive right in.
On the conference front, YugaByte was at Google Next towards the end of July. YugaByte DB was already very well integrated into the Google Cloud Compute ecosystem,
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Read MoreWelcome to the inaugural edition of the YugaByte DB Community and Engineering update series! Let’s dive in and take a look at what has happened over the last few weeks.
There has been a lot of activity in terms of meetups and events. In June, YugaByte was at DockerCon. We also did a hands-on lab about building geo-distributed cloud apps at a Datariders meetup and a talk at Samsung about building modern apps at cloud scale.
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Modern user-facing apps, like E-Commerce and SaaS, frequently require features from multiple databases (broadly — SQL, NoSQL and a cache) to support their multi-workload needs. App developers are responsible for understanding and managing which pieces of data should be stored in which SQL and NoSQL database. Furthermore, the app is also responsible for moving data across the tiers (e.g.
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Read MoreTeam YugaByte is delighted to announce the general availability of YugaByte DB 1.0!
It has been an incredibly satisfying experience to, in just two years, build and launch a cloud-scale, transactional and high-performance database that’s already powering real-world production workloads. I wanted to take a moment to share our journey to 1.0 and the road ahead.
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Today, we are launching Yugabyte out of stealth and announcing the availability of YugabyteDB’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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