Thoughts on distributed databases, open source and cloud native
YugaByte DB is an open source, transactional, high-performance database for your business-critical data —and it is compatible with the Redis API. Over the years, many of us fell in love with the simplicity and the intuitiveness of the various Redis commands and data structures. We are excited to share the same love with all the Redis developers out there.
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Read MoreHere at YugaByte, we continuously push the limits of the systems we build. As a part of that, we ran some large cluster benchmarks to scale YugaByte DB to million of reads and writes per second while retaining low latencies. This post goes into the details about our 50 node cluster benchmark. We posted the results of the benchmark on a 25 node cluster in our community forum.
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Read MoreWe have spoken to several developers that have a need to model time series like data in Redis. A few examples of such applications are:
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Read MoreIn an earlier blog on database consistency, we had a detailed discussion on the risks and challenges applications face in dealing with eventually consistent NoSQL databases. We also dispelled the myth that eventually consistent DBs perform better than strongly consistent DBs. In this blog, we will look more closely into how YugaByte DB provides strong consistency while outperforming an eventually consistent DB like Apache Cassandra.
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Read MoreYugabyteDB 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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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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Read MoreIn the world of databases today, consistency is one of the most misunderstood concepts. It is also one of the big reasons NoSQL databases are difficult to reason about.
The CAP theorem states that “in the presence of a network partition, one has to choose between consistency and availability”. In order to provide higher write availability,
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Read MoreUpdated March 2019.
Ever wondered which database Facebook (FB) uses to store the profiles of its 2.3B+ users? Is it SQL or NoSQL? How has FB database architecture evolved over the last 15+ years? As an engineer in FB database infrastructure team from 2007 to 2013, I had a front row seat in witnessing this evolution.
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Read MoreCame 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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