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YugabyteDB Engineering Update – Feb 28, 2020
February 28, 2020
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YugabyteDB Engineering Update – Feb 28, 2020

We are excited to announce that YugabyteDB 2.1 went GA earlier this week! You can read the official release notes here. This release shipped with almost 70 new enhancements and 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. Yugabyte’s SQL API (YSQL) is PostgreSQL wire compatible.

Highlights of this release include:

Generally Available Features

Geo-distributed,

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Getting Started with Distributed SQL on YugabyteDB Managed
February 27, 2020
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Getting Started with Distributed SQL on YugabyteDB Managed

With the release of YugabyteDB 2.1 earlier this week, we introduced many exciting new features: performance optimizations, 2DC and read replica support, and more. We also announced that YugabyteDB Managed (formerly Yugabyte Cloud) is now officially in Beta! In this blog post we’ll show you how to quickly get up and running with a YugabyteDB cluster on YugabyteDB Managed, build a sample database, and connect to it with JetBrain’s DataGrip database administration tool.

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YugabyteDB 2.1 is GA: Scaling New Heights with Distributed SQL
February 25, 2020
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YugabyteDB 2.1 is GA: Scaling New Heights with Distributed SQL

Team Yugabyte is excited to announce the general availability of YugabyteDB 2.1! The highlight of this release is that Yugabyte SQL (YSQL), YugabyteDB’s PostgreSQL-compatible API, has not only improved performance 10x since the 2.0 release in September 2019 but is also production ready for multiple geo-distributed deployment scenarios. For those of you who are new to distributed SQL, YugabyteDB is a Google Spanner-inspired, cloud native distributed SQL database that is 100% open source.

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Achieving 10x Better Distributed SQL Performance in YugabyteDB 2.1
February 25, 2020
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Achieving 10x Better Distributed SQL Performance in YugabyteDB 2.1

When starting the YugabyteDB project, our founding thesis was to build a high-performance distributed SQL database for the cloud native era. Achieving high performance will always remain an ongoing initiative, especially when additional optimizations are required to support new features and new use cases. We are excited that the current YugabyteDB 2.1 release has a number of improvements that make Yugabyte SQL’s performance 10x better on average than the previous 2.0 release (from September 2019).

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Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – Feb 21, 2020
February 21, 2020
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Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – Feb 21, 2020

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 documentation, and blogs that have been published since the last post. Got questions? Make sure to ask them on our YugabyteDB Slack channel, Forum, GitHub, or Stackoverflow. Ok, let’s dive right in:

When should I use JSON vs JSONB data types?

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Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – Feb 14, 2020
February 14, 2020
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Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – Feb 14, 2020

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 documentation and blogs that have been published since the last post. Got questions? Make sure to ask them on our YugabyteDB Slack channel, Forum, GitHub or Stackoverflow. Ok, let’s dive right in:

How can I get the JSON output of distinct columns?

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Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – Feb 7, 2020
February 7, 2020
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Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – Feb 7, 2020

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 documentation and blogs that have been published since the last post. Got questions? Make sure to ask them on our YugabyteDB Slack channel, Forum, GitHub or Stackoverflow. Ok, let’s dive right in:

Does YugabyteDB have an in-memory storage engine?

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YugabyteDB Engineering Update – Jan 8, 2020
January 8, 2020
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YugabyteDB Engineering Update – Jan 8, 2020

We are pleased to announce that YugabyteDB 2.0.9 launched over the holidays and YugabyteDB 2.0.10 is now live!  You can read the official release notes of this and previous versions here. These two releases shipped with a combined 36 new enhancements and 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. Yugabyte’s SQL API (YSQL) is PostgreSQL wire compatible.

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Getting Started with DbSchema on a Distributed SQL Database
January 7, 2020
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Getting Started with DbSchema on a Distributed SQL Database

If you’re a database developer, you know the time saving value of being able to visually design, document and query SQL and NoSQL databases from a single UI. DbSchema is a well-rounded, visual database tool that supports over 40 databases from a single interface. Because YugabyteDB is PostgreSQL compatible, getting DBSchema to work with a distributed SQL database is relatively simple.

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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YugabyteDB Community Update, Tricks and Tips – Dec 13, 2019
December 13, 2019
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YugabyteDB Community Update, Tricks and Tips – Dec 13, 2019

Welcome 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, Forum, GitHub or Stackoverflow. We’ll also review upcoming events, new blogs and documentation. Ok, let’s dive right in:

How best to configure clusters across deployment types

Ava over on StackOverflow asked how to best setup configurations for different deployment models like single AZ,

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