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Databases Distributed SQL PostgreSQL
May 18, 2020
by Bryn Llewellyn

Follow-up: Postgres Conference Webinar – Introduction to YugabyteDB

I delivered the webinar “YugabyteDB: a distributed PostgreSQL database” last week. It was hosted by Postgres Conference in a series that they’d arranged so that the speakers who’d been selected to speak at their big annual conference in New York City in March could reach their audience. COVID-19 brought that event’s cancellation. This brief post tells you where you can find the edited videorecording and the PDF version of the slides that I used.

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Databases Distributed SQL How To Open Source PostgreSQL
May 14, 2020
by Jimmy Guerrero

Oracle vs PostgreSQL: First Glance – Testing YugabyteDB’s Compatibility

Roland Takacs wrote an interesting blog post titled Oracle vs PostgreSQL: First Glance earlier this month. The genesis for his blog post was that he was in the middle of migrating his current Oracle tech stack to Python, parquet files, and PostgreSQL. As such, Roland thought it might be a good exercise to document the various Oracle features he was accustomed to and figure out what the equivalent functionality was in PostgreSQL.

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Community News Company News Databases Distributed SQL
May 13, 2020
by Michelle Brinich

New 451 Research Report: Distributed SQL

Today, we are releasing a new 451 Research report: Distributed SQL, An Enabler for Globally Consistent Transactional Workloads. The report, which we commissioned, explores how database systems, sitting at the heart of the enterprise, play a key role in digital transformation initiatives.

At Yugabyte, we partner with our customers daily to help accelerate their digital initiatives,

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Databases Distributed SQL How It Works Open Source PostgreSQL YugabyteDB 2.1
May 12, 2020
by Neha Deodhar

Boosting Performance for Small Distributed SQL Data Sets with Colocated Tables

An Introduction to Colocated Tables

In YugabyteDB v2.1, we released a new feature in beta: colocated tables. In this post, we’ll explain what colocated tables are in a distributed SQL database, why you would need them, and how to get started.

Relational databases often have a large number of tables and indexes. A lot of these tables are closely related and commonly queried together via joins or subqueries.

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Cloud Providers Containers Databases Distributed SQL How To Kubernetes Microsoft Azure
May 11, 2020
by Jimmy Guerrero

Getting Started with Distributed SQL on Azure Kubernetes Service

Microsoft’s Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) offers a highly available, secure, and fully managed Kubernetes service for developers looking to host their applications on containers in the cloud. AKS features elastic provisioning, an integrated developer experience for rapid application development, enterprise security features, and the most available regions of any cloud provider.

Getting Started with Distributed SQL on Azure Kubernetes Service how to tutorial

YugabyteDB is a natural fit for AKS because it was designed to support cloud native environments since its initial design.

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Community News Databases Distributed SQL Open Source PostgreSQL YugabyteDB 2.1
May 6, 2020
by Jimmy Guerrero

YugabyteDB Engineering Update – May 6, 2020

YugabyteDB Release Updates

We are excited to announce that YugabyteDB 2.1.5 is GA! The 2.1.5 release shipped with over 40 new enhancements and fixes. Also, yesterday we hit a milestone that we are very proud of–we welcomed our 1000th member to the YugabyteDB community Slack channel! Congrats to Rob Sami for being the 1000th member,

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CockroachDB Community News Databases Distributed SQL Performance Benchmarks PostgreSQL
May 4, 2020
by Karthik Ranganathan

Bringing Truth to Competitive Benchmark Claims – YugabyteDB vs CockroachDB, Part 2

In part 1 of this blog series, we highlighted multiple factual errors in the Cockroach Labs analysis of YugabyteDB. In this second post we provide the next layer of detail behind YugabyteDB’s architecture, with an emphasis on comparing it to that of CockroachDB’s.

Contents of this post

TLDR

Yugabyte SQL is based on a reuse of PostgreSQL’s native query layer.

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CockroachDB Community News Databases Distributed SQL PostgreSQL
May 4, 2020
by Karthik Ranganathan

Bringing Truth to Competitive Benchmark Claims – YugabyteDB vs CockroachDB, Part 1

This is the first in a two part blog series which highlights factual errors in the Cockroach Labs analysis of YugabyteDB. In the second post in this series, we provide the next layer of detail behind YugabyteDB’s architecture, with an emphasis on comparing it to that of CockroachDB’s.

Contents of this post

Introduction

At Yugabyte,

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