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How It Works Performance Benchmarks
November 27, 2017
by Mikhail Bautin

YugabyteDB Architecture: Diverse Workloads with Operational Simplicity

YugabyteDB is a transactional, high performance, geo-distributed operational database that converges multiple NoSQL and SQL interfaces into an unified solution. The v0.9 public beta of YugabyteDB includes the YCQL and YEDIS APIs that are compatible with Cassandra Query Language (CQL) and Redis APIs respectively. PostgreSQL-compatible YSQL API is under development. A fundamental design goal for YugabyteDB has been to provide the same transactional,

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Yugabyte Has Arrived!

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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Community News Company News Distributed SQL Release Announcements
November 2, 2017
by Karthik Ranganathan
Cloud Providers Databases
August 18, 2017
by Karthik Ranganathan

NoSQL vs SQL in 2017

Came across the image below here and this made me smile. Not because of the implied complexity of choosing a database, but the reality with which this flow chart captures the state of the database world today in 2017. Of course, running whatever database you end up choosing in production is a whole another order of complexity.

I have been working on distributed systems for the last 10+ years.

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