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ACID Transactions CockroachDB Google Cloud Spanner How It Works
October 11, 2018
by Sid Choudhury

Google Spanner vs. Calvin: Is There a Clear Winner in the Battle for Global Consistency at Scale?

Prof. Daniel Abadi, lead inventor of the Calvin transaction management protocol and the PACELC theorem, wrote a thought-provoking post last month titled “NewSQL database systems are failing to guarantee consistency, and I blame Spanner”. The post takes a negative view of software-only Google Spanner derivative databases such as YugaByte DB and CockroachDB that use Spanner-like partitioned consensus for single shard transactions and a two phase commit (2PC) protocol for multi-shard (aka distributed) transactions.

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How It Works How To YugaByte DB 1.1
October 2, 2018
by Karthik Ranganathan

YugaByte DB 1.1 New Feature: Public IPs to Simplify Multi or Hybrid Cloud Database Deployments

Welcome to another post in our ongoing series that highlights new features from the latest 1.1 release announced last week. Today we are going to look at the importance of public IP addresses and hostnames in simplifying multi-cloud and hybrid cloud deployments.

In modern cloud deployments, servers often have a combination of private IP addresses (used in the private LAN and often the IP address of the network interface on the server),

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Cassandra Community News How It Works MongoDB YugaByte DB 1.1
September 26, 2018
by Karthik Ranganathan

YugaByte DB 1.1 New Feature: Document Data Modeling with the JSON Data Type

Welcome to another post in our ongoing series that highlights new features from the latest 1.1 release announced last week. Today we are going to look at document data modeling using the native JSON data type available in YugaByte DB’s Cassandra compatible YCQL API. Note that this data type is specific to YugaByte DB and is not part of the standard Cassandra Query Language (CQL).

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Cassandra Community News How It Works MongoDB YugaByte DB 1.1
September 25, 2018
by Karthik Ranganathan

YugaByte DB 1.1 New Feature: Speeding Up Queries with Secondary Indexes

Welcome to another post from our ongoing series where we highlight a new feature from the latest 1.1 release! Today we are going to look at secondary indexes.

Defining Secondary Indexes

A database index is a data structure that improves the speed of data retrieval operations on a database table. Typically, databases are very efficient at looking up data by the primary key.

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Cassandra Community News Company News Performance & Benchmarks PostgreSQL Redis Release Announcements YugaByte DB 1.1
September 21, 2018
by Karthik Ranganathan

Technical Deep Dive into YugaByte DB 1.1

We announced the general availability of YugaByte DB 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.

YugaByte DB is an open source database for high performance applications that require ACID transactions and planet-scale data distribution.

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Community News Company News PostgreSQL Release Announcements YugaByte DB 1.1
September 19, 2018
by Kannan Muthukkaruppan

Announcing YugaByte DB 1.1 and Company Update

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:

YugaByte DB Open Source

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Community News Company News
September 19, 2018
by Ravi Murthy

Ravi Murthy: Starting a New Chapter with YugaByte

In 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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ACID Transactions Community News How It Works Performance & Benchmarks
September 17, 2018
by Karthik Ranganathan

Jepsen Testing on YugaByte DB

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:

  • We have performed our own DIY style Jepsen testing
  • The YugaByte DB Jepsen testing repository is open source
  • For the current suite of Jepsen tests for YugaByte DB that we have tested in a loop,

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