Thoughts on distributed databases, open source and cloud native
We are excited to announce the general availability of YugabyteDB 2.0! The highlight of this release is that it delivers production readiness for Yugabyte SQL (YSQL), our high-performance, fully-relational distributed SQL API. For those of you new to distributed SQL, YugabyteDB is a Google Spanner-inspired, cloud-native distributed SQL database that is 100% open source.
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Update: A new post “The Effect of Isolation Levels on Distributed SQL Performance Benchmarking” includes performance results from running these workloads at serializable isolation level in YugabyteDB.
We are excited to announce the general availability of YugabyteDB 2.0 this week! One of the flagship features of the release was the production readiness of the PostgreSQL-compatible YugabyteDB SQL (YSQL) API.
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The team at Yugabyte and members of the community were excited to announce the general availability of Yugbyte 2.0 this week. One of the flagship features of the release was the production readiness of the PostgreSQL compatible, Yugabyte SQL API (YSQL). In other blogs we covered Jepsen testing results, new performance benchmarks and ecosystem integrations including the GraphQL projects Hasura and Prisma.
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Read MoreYugabyte and Kubernetes have very complementary design principles because they both rely on an extensible and flexible API layer, as well as a scale-out architecture for performance and availability. In this blog post we’ll look at best practices and recommendations when choosing Kubernetes as the cluster foundation for a distributed SQL system. This will begin with a review of relevant architectural decisions of the Yugabyte DB.
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Read MoreThe 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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Read MoreWe are excited to announce that YugabyteDB 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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Read MoreWe are very excited to announce the arrival of YugabyteDB 1.3. This post will outline some of the major milestones in this release.
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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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.
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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Read MoreLots has happened since our last engineering update about 3 months ago. Below are some of the highlights.
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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Read MoreTeam 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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