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July 17, 2019

How-to: The Northwind PostgreSQL Sample Database Running on a Distributed SQL Database

The Northwind database is a sample database that was originally created by Microsoft and used as the basis for their tutorials in a variety of database products for decades. The Northwind database contains the sales data for a fictitious company called “Northwind Traders,” which imports and exports specialty foods from around the world. The Northwind database is an excellent tutorial schema for a small-business ERP,

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Community News Company News Distributed SQL YugaByte DB 1.3

July 16, 2019

by Karthik Ranganathan

Why We Changed YugaByte DB Licensing to 100% Open Source

We are excited to announce that YugaByte DB is now 100% open source under the Apache 2.0 license. This means previously closed-source, commercial, enterprise features such as Distributed Backups, Data Encryption and Read Replicas are now available in the open source project and are completely free to use. Same applies to upcoming new features like Change Data Capture and 2 Data Center Deployments.

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Community News Company News Distributed SQL YugaByte DB 1.3

July 16, 2019

by Sid Choudhury

Announcing YugaByte DB 1.3 with Enterprise Features as Open Source

We are very excited to announce the arrival of YugaByte DB 1.3. This post will outline some of the major milestones in this release.

Enterprise Features Move To Open Source

In this release, all the enterprise features in the core DB are now available in open source under the Apache 2.0 license! Effective v1.3,

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CockroachDB Community News Company News Distributed SQL Jepsen Tests Kubernetes Performance Benchmarks Release Announcements YugaByte DB 1.2

March 13, 2019

by Kannan Muthukkaruppan

Announcing YugaByte DB 1.2 and Company Update

The team at YugaByte is excited to announce that YugaByte DB 1.2 is officially GA! You can download the latest version from our Quick Start page.

New in 1.2: YugaByte SQL Beta 3

YugaByte SQL (YSQL) is our PostgreSQL v11 compatible, distributed SQL API. It is ideal for powering microservices that require low latency,

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Apache Cassandra Community News How It Works How To Performance Benchmarks

November 27, 2018

by Karthik Ranganathan

YugaByte Database Engineering Update – Nov 27, 2018

Lots has happened since our last engineering update about 3 months ago. Below are some of the highlights.

PostgreSQL API Updates & PostgresConf Silicon Valley Wrap-Up

We have made a lot of progress on YSQL, the PostgreSQL compatible distributed SQL API for YugaByte DB! You can also read about YSQL architecture which covers how distributed SQL is implemented in YugaByte DB.

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Announcing YugaByte DB 1.0! 🍾 🎉

Team YugaByte is delighted to announce the general availability of YugaByte DB 1.0!

It has been an incredibly satisfying experience to, in just two years, build and launch a cloud-scale, transactional and high-performance database that’s already powering real-world production workloads. I wanted to take a moment to share our journey to 1.0 and the road ahead.

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Community News Company News Release Announcements

May 2, 2018

by Kannan Muthukkaruppan

How It Works Performance Benchmarks

November 27, 2017

by Mikhail Bautin

YugaByte DB Architecture: Diverse Workloads with Operational Simplicity

YugaByte DB is a transactional, high performance, geo-distributed operational database that converges multiple NoSQL and SQL interfaces into an unified solution. The v0.9 public beta of YugaByte DB is compatible with Apache Cassandra (CQL) and Redis APIs, with PostgreSQL under development. A fundamental design goal for YugaByte DB has been to provide the same transactional, performance and operational simplicity guarantees irrespective of the API used.

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