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ACID Transactions Google Cloud Spanner How It Works How To Performance & Benchmarks
April 24, 2018
by Karthik Ranganathan

Yes We Can! Distributed ACID Transactions with High Performance

ACID transactions are a fundamental building block when developing business-critical, user-facing applications. They simplify the complex task of ensuring data integrity while supporting highly concurrent operations. While they are taken for granted in monolithic SQL/relational DBs, distributed NoSQL/non-relational DBs either forsake them completely or support only a highly restrictive single-key flavor (see sections below). This loss of ACID properties is usually justified with a gain in performance (measured in terms of low latency and/or high throughput).

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How It Works How To Kubernetes
April 17, 2018
by Sid Choudhury

Orchestrating Stateful Apps with Kubernetes StatefulSets

Kubernetes, the open source container orchestration engine that originated from Google’s Borg project, has seen some of the most explosive growth ever recorded in an open source project. The complete software development lifecycle involving stateless apps can now be executed in a more consistent, efficient and resilient manner than ever before. However, the same is not true for stateful apps — containers are inherently stateless and Kubernetes did not do anything special in the initial days to change that.

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How It Works How To MongoDB
March 7, 2018
by Sid Choudhury

Overcoming MongoDB Sharding and Replication Limitations with YugaByte DB

A few of our early users have chosen to build their new cloud applications on YugaByte DB even though their current primary datastore is MongoDB. Starting with the v3.4 release in Nov 2016, MongoDB has made improvements in its sharding and replication architecture that has allowed it to be re-classified as a Consistent and Partition-tolerant (CP) database and move away from its Available and Partition-tolerant (AP) origins.

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Building Scalable Cloud Services — An Instant Messaging App

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47276519/how-should-i-or-should-not-use-cassandra-and-redis-together-to-build-a-scalable

This is the first post in a series about building real-world, distributed cloud services using a transactional cloud database like YugaByte DB.

We are going to look at how to build a scalable chat or messaging application like Facebook Messages. This is close to heart to a number of us at YugaByte — we were the team behind the database platform that powers the Facebook Messages app.

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How To
February 2, 2018
by Karthik Ranganathan
Amazon Web Services Cloud Providers Google Cloud Platform How It Works Microsoft Azure Performance & Benchmarks
January 26, 2018
by Kannan Muthukkaruppan

Achieving Sub-ms Latencies on Large Datasets in Public Clouds

One of our users was interested to learn more about YugaByte DB’s behavior for a random read workload where the data set does not fit in RAM and queries need to read data from disk (i.e. an uncached random read workload).

The intent was to verify if YugaByte DB was designed well to handle this case with the optimal number of IOs to the disk subsystem.

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Amazon Web Services Azure Cosmos DB Google Cloud Platform Google Cloud Spanner Microsoft Azure
January 25, 2018
by Sid Choudhury

Practical Tradeoffs in Google Cloud Spanner, Azure Cosmos DB and YugaByte DB

The famed CAP Theorem has been a source of much debate among distributed systems engineers. Those of us building distributed databases are often asked how we deal with it. In this post, we dive deeper into the consistency-availability tradeoff imposed by CAP which is only applicable during failure conditions. We also highlight the lesser-known-but-equally-important consistency-latency tradeoff imposed by the PACELC Theorem that extends CAP to normal operations.

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How It Works Performance & Benchmarks
January 12, 2018
by Bharat Baddepudi

Scaling YugaByte DB to Millions of Reads and Writes

Here at YugaByte, we continuously push the limits of the systems we build. As a part of that, we ran some large cluster benchmarks to scale YugaByte DB to million of reads and writes per second while retaining low latencies. This post goes into the details about our 50 node cluster benchmark. We posted the results of the benchmark on a 25 node cluster in our community forum.

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Cassandra Performance & Benchmarks
December 20, 2017
by Robert Pang

Building a Strongly Consistent Cassandra with Better Performance

In an earlier blog on database consistency, we had a detailed discussion on the risks and challenges applications face in dealing with eventually consistent NoSQL databases. We also dispelled the myth that eventually consistent DBs perform better than strongly consistent DBs. In this blog, we will look more closely into how YugaByte DB provides strong consistency while outperforming an eventually consistent DB like Apache Cassandra.

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