Thoughts on distributed databases, open source, and cloud native
The first answer to this question is the usual “it depends“. The second answer, thanks to YugabyteDB’s auto-splitting feature and distributed SQL sharding principles, is “don’t worry, this is managed automatically.”
However, it’s still important to understand how sharding works, how to handle corner cases correctly, and how to split tablets to save resources.
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Read MoreKubernetes has become widely adopted in the Fortune 500. Many companies are now using the platform to run stateless and stateful applications on-premises or as hybrid cloud deployments in production. Of course, with any new technology, there are growing pains when running resilient Kubernetes workloads. But most executives and developers agree that the benefits far outweigh the challenges.
Data on the Kubernetes ecosystem is evolving rapidly with the rise of stateful applications.
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Read MoreWe held our second annual Distributed SQL Summit (DSS) Asia annual conference on the 30th and 31st of March 2022, following great feedback from our initial event and user demand.
This two-day online conference was packed with fascinating presentations, discussions, and demos from customers, partners, and our own experts.
With 35 engaging sessions to choose from,
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Read MoreWelcome back to our distributed SQL tips and tricks blog! I have the pleasure of recapping distributed SQL questions from around the Internet.
This blog series would not be possible without Dorian Hoxha, Franck Pachot, and Frits Hoogland. We also thank our incredible user community for not being afraid to ask questions.
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Read MoreA distributed SQL database is a single logical relational database deployed on a cluster of servers. The database automatically replicates and distributes data across multiple servers. These databases are strongly consistent and support consistency across availability and geographic zones in the cloud.
At a minimum, a distributed SQL database has the following characteristics:
But should you run a distributed SQL database in Kubernetes?
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Read MoreI’ve been working with distributed systems, platforms, and databases for the last seven years. Back in 2015, many architects began using distributed databases to scale beyond the boundaries of a single machine or server. They selected such a database for its horizontal scalability, even if its performance remained comparable to a conventional single-server database.
Now, with the rise of cloud native applications and serverless architecture,
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Read MoreIn the first post in this series, we covered how to secure YugabyteDB’s internal RPC protocol using the TLS encryption protocol, also referred to as server-to-server encryption in transit. In this post, we secure the communication between SQL clients and the PostgresQL query interface of YugabyteDB, also called client-to-server encryption in transit.
YugabyteDB—a 100% open source,
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Read MoreGitOps is an operational framework for declarative-driven systems such as Kubernetes. More specifically, it provides a set of best practices that converge the runtime state of the services with the declarative state defined in Git. On the other hand, Argo CD is a declarative, continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. Argo CD follows the GitOps pattern of using Git repositories as the source of truth for defining the desired application state.
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Read MoreDatabases are systems of records in any enterprise. However, unlocking the true business potential of data requires availability across the entire enterprise ecosystem. This means different applications, services, and systems powering the business processes and use cases of the organization. As a result, change data capture (CDC) is an ideal mechanism for integrating downstream applications and services to a database efficiently,
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Read MoreWelcome back to our distributed SQL tips and tricks blog! I have the pleasure of recapping distributed SQL questions from around the Internet.
This blog series would not be possible without Dorian Hoxha, Franck Pachot, and Frits Hoogland. We also thank our incredible user community for not being afraid to ask questions.
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