Layer 7 proxies like NGINX and HAProxy have been popular since the mid-2000s. The term “proxy” refers to their role as an intermediary for the traffic between an application client and an applicat… Read More >
Introducing yugabyted, the Simplest Way to Get Started with YugabyteDB
Users familiar with YugabyteDB’s architecture know that it is based on two servers where cluster metadata storage and administrative operations are managed by a YB-Master metadata server that is ind… Read More >
Announcing YugabyteDB 2.2 – Distributed SQL Made Easy
We are excited to announce the general availability of YugabyteDB 2.2! The highlight of this release is that YugabyteDB now supports fully-transactional distributed backups thus making mission-critica… Read More >
Why We Built YugabyteDB by Reusing the PostgreSQL Query Layer
Reusing PostgreSQL’s native query layer instead of writing a new PostgresQL-compatible query layer ground up has been one of the best design decisions we have made in YugabyteDB. As outlined in the … Read More >
Spanning the Globe without Google Spanner
Open Source Geo-Distributed Relational Database on Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Google Spanner, conceived in 2007 for internal use in Google AdWords, has been rightly considered a marvel of modern softwar… Read More >
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 impro… Read More >
Distributed SQL vs. NewSQL
Our previous post in this series “What is Distributed SQL?” highlights the common architectural principles as well as the business benefits of distributed SQL databases. In this post, we compare d… Read More >
What is Distributed SQL?
SQL has been the de-facto language for relational databases (aka RDBMS) for almost four decades. Relational databases are therefore also known as SQL databases. However, the original SQL databases lik… Read More >
Announcing YugabyteDB on Crossplane, the Open Source Multicloud Control Plane
We are excited to announce that YugabyteDB is now available as a self-managed database service on Crossplane, the open-source multicloud control plane. Built on top of our recent Rook Kubernetes Opera… Read More >
9 Techniques to Build Cloud-Native, Geo-Distributed SQL Apps with Low Latency
This post is an in-depth look at the various techniques that applications needing low latency and high availability can leverage while using a geo-distributed SQL database like YugabyteDB so that the … Read More >