Thoughts on distributed databases, open source and cloud native
In this short blog post we are going to give you a quick overview of the components that make up a YugabyteDB universe.
YugabyteDB is composed of nodes. We collectively refer to this collection of all nodes as a universe. These nodes can be physical machines, virtual machines or containers (e.g. Kubernetes).
A YugabyteDB universe is made up of one or more clusters.
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Read MoreEnterprises building cloud native services are gravitating towards transactional NoSQL and globally distributed SQL databases as their next-generation transactional stores. There are at least two distinct usage patterns among these cloud native services – internet-scale transactional workloads and scale-out RDBMS workloads. They have a lot of common demands from the database they use, such as transactions/strong consistency,
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Read MoreIf 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. YugabyteDB 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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At last month’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Seattle, the single biggest change from previous container-related conferences was the excitement among the end user companies around their adoption of Kubernetes and the associated cloud native infrastructure ecosystem. The CNCF End User Community page today lists 50+ enterprises and 21+ case studies including those from industry bellwethers such as Capital One,
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Read MoreIn this blog post we are going to give you a quick overview of YugaByte DB’s security features . We’ll cover authentication, authorization, encryption, plus a simple security checklist to help lock down your install. For the purposes of this walk-through, we are going to use the Cassandra-compatible, flexible-schema YCQL API as an example.
First things first,
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Read MoreAfter launching YugaByte DB in November 2017, Team YugaByte celebrated 2018 as its first full year in the market as a cloud native, transactional database company. Exhilarating is the one word that best summarizes our 2018 experience. From a product and engineering standpoint, we launched two major releases (and tens of minor releases) and saw users adopt each of the releases at an amazing pace.
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Read MoreThe NoSQL database revolution started with the publication of the Google BigTable and Amazon Dynamo papers in 2006 and 2007 respectively. These original designs focused on horizontal write scalability without compromising the performance observed in the single node databases dominant at that time. The compromises instead came either in the form of eventual consistency (i.e. inability to read the last update) or loss of multi-key access patterns (such as SQL integrity/foreign key constraints,
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YugaByte is excited to be at KubeCon today to announce Kubernetes StatefulSets support for our distributed SQL API which complements the transactional NoSQL APIs already generally available. YSQL is YugaByte DB’s PostgreSQL-compatible Distributed SQL API (currently in Beta). This new feature, available in YugaByte DB 1.1.7, cloud-native applications and microservices can rely on SQL and NoSQL to take full advantage of Kubernetes StatefulSets to power horizontally scalable,
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Read MoreTeam YugaByte was at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas last week. While AWS was announcing a flurry of new product releases and existing product updates, we had some excellent deep dive conversations at our booth on the future of transactional databases and how YugaByte DB is playing its part in shaping that future. This post summarizes our key learnings from the conference,
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Read MoreLots has happened since our last engineering update about 3 months ago. Below are some of the highlights.
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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