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We are pleased to announce that YugabyteDB 2.0.1 is live! You can read the release notes of this and previous versions here. This release is shipping with 36 new enhancements and bug fixes.
What’s YugabyteDB? It is an open source, high-performance distributed SQL database built on a scalable and fault-tolerant design inspired by Google Spanner.
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Read MoreWell, that’s a wrap! Yugabyte would like to extend a special thanks to JD and Amanda from the Postgreconf.org team, and to all the speakers from Facebook, Google, Amazon, Pivotal, Salesforce, Narvar, Plume Design and others that presented at the first-ever Distributed SQL Summit on Sept 20,
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Read MoreIt was a warm day in early October, and two large white tents occupied the lawn that sits between the Gates, Hewlett, and Packard buildings. Companies pasted the word “AI” in big bold letters across their banners, and students formed long lines, resumes in-hand, eager to learn about the Next Big Thing and how often the company cafeteria serves Poké.
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Read MoreTriggers are a basic feature that all monolithic SQL systems like Oracle, SQL Server and PostgreSQL have supported for many years. They are very useful in a variety of scenarios ranging from simple audit logging, to advanced tasks like updating remote databases in a federated cluster. In this blog, we’ll look at examples of INSERT, UPDATE and INSTEAD OF triggers in Yugabyte DB.
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This post addresses a concern raised about a benchmarking result we recently published comparing the performance of YugabyteDB, Amazon Aurora and CockroachDB. It was pointed out that we unfairly used the default isolation level for each database rather than use serializable isolation level in all databases (even though serializable level was not required for these workloads). In addition,
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Read MoreWe are excited to announce the general availability of YugabyteDB 2.0! The highlight of this release is that it delivers production readiness for Yugabyte SQL (YSQL), our high-performance, fully-relational distributed SQL API. For those of you new to distributed SQL, YugabyteDB is a Google Spanner-inspired, cloud-native distributed SQL database that is 100% open source.
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Update: A new post “The Effect of Isolation Levels on Distributed SQL Performance Benchmarking” includes performance results from running these workloads at serializable isolation level in YugabyteDB.
We are excited to announce the general availability of YugabyteDB 2.0 this week! One of the flagship features of the release was the production readiness of the PostgreSQL-compatible YugabyteDB SQL (YSQL) API.
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The team at Yugabyte and members of the community were excited to announce the general availability of YugabyteDB 2.0 this week. One of the flagship features of the release was the production readiness of the PostgreSQL compatible, Yugabyte SQL API (YSQL). In other blogs we covered Jepsen testing results, new performance benchmarks and ecosystem integrations including the GraphQL projects Hasura and Prisma.
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Read MoreToday, we are proud to announce that Blitzz and Yugabyte have partnered to accelerate database modernization. Both these companies were founded by engineering leaders with a proven track record in databases and share a common vision of enabling enterprises to replicate and migrate their existing databases to a cloud-native platform. With Yugabyte DB’s Postgres-compatible YSQL API,
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Read MoreWe are excited to congratulate the Rook community on the release on 1.1! We are also pleased to announce that the Rook operator for YugabyteDB is now available from rook.io and also on Github. This release extends the Rook storage operator as a custom resource, as well as provides an additional way to easily create, natively view and manage YugabyteDB within a Kubernetes cluster.
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