Thoughts on distributed databases, open source, and cloud native
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 MoreIn case you missed the announcement, Ravi Murthy has joined YugaByte as our VP of Engineering. Read on to learn more about his experiences leading the teams who managed the explosive growth of applications and data at Facebook, plus what’s next at YugaByte!
After almost 7 years at Facebook, I am super-excited to start in my new role as YugaByte’s VP of Engineering.
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At YugaByte, our mission is to build a robust, reliable, distributed OLTP database. Needless to say, we take correctness and technical accuracy of our claims very seriously. Therefore, we absolutely love a testing framework like Jepsen which helps verify correctness and are fans of Kyle Kingsbury’s work!
Here is a summary of what we have done so far in regards to Jepsen:
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Read MoreWhenever a venture-funded software infrastructure startup takes the open source route to market, a few questions emerge:
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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 MoreAs we reviewed in “Docker, Kubernetes and the Rise of Cloud Native Databases”, Kubernetes has benefited from rapid adoption to become the de-facto choice for container orchestration. This has happened in a short span of only 4 years since Google open sourced the project in 2014. YugabyteDB’s automated sharding and strongly consistent replication architecture lends itself extremely well to containerized deployments powered by Kubernetes orchestration.
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Read MoreFor ever-growing data workloads such as time series metrics and IoT sensor events, running a highly dense database cluster where each node stores terabytes of data makes perfect sense from a cost efficiency standpoint. If we are spinning up new data nodes only to get more storage-per-node, then there is a significant wastage of expensive compute resources. However, running multi-terabyte data nodes with Apache Cassandra as well as other Cassandra-compatible databases (such as DataStax Enterprise) is not an option.
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Read MorePivotal Container Service (PKS) simplifies the deployment and management of enterprise-grade Kubernetes on both public and private clouds. The PKS APIs and its command line interface make it easy to create and manage Kubernetes clusters without cloud-vendor lock in.
Getting started with PKS is easy
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Apache Cassandra is a distributed open source database that can be referred to as a “NoSQL database” or a “wide column store.” Cassandra was originally developed at Facebook to power its “Inbox” feature and was released as an open source project in 2008. Cassandra is designed to handle “big data” workloads by distributing data,
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