Thoughts on distributed databases, open source and cloud native
Welcome to this week’s tips and tricks blog where we recap some distributed SQL questions from around the Internet. We’ll also review upcoming events, new blogs and documentation that has been published since the last blog. Got questions? Make sure to ask them on our YugabyteDB Slack channel, Forum, GitHub or Stackoverflow.
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Read MoreIn this blog post we are going to introduce you to how PostgreSQL’s row level security feature works in the latest YugabyteDB 2.0.6 release. YugabyteDB supports RLS and a host of other security and encryption features “out-of-the-box,” as part of the open source distribution.
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 MoreThese days, most monolithic SQL databases support stored procedures. This support first emerged in commercially available offerings in the late nineteen eighties. However, stored procedure support is not yet standard in distributed SQL databases. In fact, YugabyteDB is just one of two in this category—supporting stored procedures written in PostgreSQL’s PL/pgSQL. (Aurora also supports stored procedures.) This post recaps the case for stored procedures that motivated their introduction all those years ago.
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Read MoreWe are pleased to announce that YugabyteDB 2.0.6 is live! You can read the official release notes of this and previous versions here. This release is shipping with almost 30 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 MoreEnterprises deploy YugabyteDB clusters across multiple availability zones (AZs) in order to ensure continuous availability of their business-critical services even when faced with cloud infrastructure failures like zone outages. On November 12, 2019, there was one such outage of an entire availability zone in the eu-central-1 region of AWS. This was reported on the AWS status page on that day,
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SQL has been the de-facto language for relational databases (aka RDBMS) for almost four decades. Relational databases are therefore also known as SQL databases. However, the original SQL databases like Oracle, PostgreSQL and MySQL are monolithic from an architectural standpoint. They are unable to distribute data and queries across multiple instances automatically. NewSQL databases emerged to make SQL scalable. However,
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Read MoreWelcome to this week’s community update where we recap a few interesting questions that have popped up in the last week or so on the YugabyteDB Slack channel, the Forum, GitHub or Stackoverflow. We’ll also review upcoming events, new blogs and documentation that has been published since the last update.
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Read MoreWe are pleased to announce that YugabyteDB 2.0.5 is live! You can read the offical release notes of this and previous versions here. This release is shipping with over 40 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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We are excited to announce that YugabyteDB is now available as a self-managed database service on Crossplane, the open-source multicloud control plane. Built on top of our recent Rook Kubernetes Operator for YugabyteDB, this offering makes YugabyteDB one of the first distributed SQL databases available on Crossplane.
With Crossplane as the single control plane,
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Read MoreWelcome to this week’s community update where we recap a few interesting questions that have popped up in the last week or so on the YugabyteDB Slack channel, the Forum, GitHub or Stackoverflow. We’ll also review upcoming events, new blogs and documentation that has been published since the last update.
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