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Databases Distributed SQL How It Works How To Open Source YugabyteDB 2.2
August 13, 2020
by Sid Choudhury

Introducing yugabyted, the Simplest Way to Get Started with YugabyteDB

Users familiar with YugabyteDB’s architecture know that it is based on two servers where cluster metadata storage and administrative operations are managed by a YB-Master metadata server that is independent from the YB-TServer database server. The end result is that the YB-Master server can be configured and tuned (in a manner that is completely isolated from YB-TServer) to achieve higher performance and faster resilience than a single-server architecture.

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Community News Company News Databases Distributed SQL
August 7, 2020
by Michelle Brinich

INSERT INTO Yugabyte (We’re Hiring, August 2020 Edition)

Recent Highlights and Happenings

It’s time for another monthly hiring blog post from the Yugabyte team! Although it remains a difficult time nationally and globally, it’s our hope that sharing this information and our currently open positions may be some good news at a time when it’s needed most.

Since our last hiring post, we announced the general availability of YugabyteDB 2.2!

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Community News Databases Distributed SQL How To Open Source
August 6, 2020
by Steve Bang

What’s New and Improved in YugabyteDB Docs – August 2020

Welcome to this month’s edition of what’s new and improved in YugabyteDB Docs. We’re continually adding to and updating the documentation to give you the information you need to make the most out of YugabyteDB. This post covers recent content added, and changes made, to the YugabyteDB documentation since the last posting.

Before we dive into the details,

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Databases Distributed SQL How To
August 5, 2020
by Jimmy Guerrero

Version Control for Distributed SQL Databases with Flyway

Flyway is an open source database version control and migration tool that stresses simplicity and convention over configuration. Changes to the database can be written in SQL (and in some database-specific dialects like PL/SQL and T-SQL) or Java. You interact with Flyway using a command-line client, however there are a variety of plugins that can be leveraged, including Maven,

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Databases Distributed SQL Google Cloud Platform How To Kubernetes
July 30, 2020
by Jimmy Guerrero

Distributed SQL Change Management with Liquibase and YugabyteDB on GKE

Liquibase is an open source and extensible change management project that supports a variety of databases including Snowflake, MySQL, and PostgreSQL via JDBC. Liquibase allows users to easily define changes in SQL, XML, JSON, and YAML. These changes are then managed in a version control system so the changes can be documented, ordered, and standardized. For more information on the features and benefits of Liquibase,

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Databases Distributed SQL Google Cloud Platform How To Kubernetes
July 29, 2020
by Jimmy Guerrero

Getting Started with SQLPad and Distributed SQL on Google Kubernetes Engine

SQLPad is an MIT licensed web app written in React and Node.js for writing and running SQL queries and visualizing the results. SQLPad supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Crate, Vertica, Presto, SAP HANA, Cassandra, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, SQLite, and many more via ODBC. Because YugabyteDB is PostgreSQL compatible, most third-party tools and apps will work “out of the box.” SQLPad is no exception here.

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Community News Databases Distributed SQL How It Works Open Source Performance Benchmarks YugabyteDB 2.2
July 28, 2020
by Karthik Ranganathan

TPC-C Benchmark: 10,000 Warehouses on YugabyteDB

We are excited to announce that the TPC-C benchmark implementation for YugabyteDB is now open source and ready to use! While this implementation is not officially ratified by the TPC organization, it closely follows the TPC-C v5.11.0 specification.

For those new to TPC-C, the aim of the benchmark is to test how a database performs when handling transactions generated by a real-world OLTP application.

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Databases Distributed SQL How To PostgreSQL
July 24, 2020
by Jimmy Guerrero

Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks for PostgreSQL and Oracle DBAs – July 24, 2020

Welcome to this week’s tips and tricks blog where we explore both beginner and advanced YugabyteDB topics for PostgreSQL and Oracle DBAs. First things first, for those of you who might be new to either distributed SQL or YugabyteDB.

What is Distributed SQL?

Distributed SQL databases are becoming popular with organizations interested in moving data infrastructure to the cloud or cloud native environments.

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