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Articles by Sid Choudhury

Databases, Distributed SQL, Docker, Ecosystem Integrations, How To, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL

Using Envoy Proxy’s PostgreSQL & TCP Filters to Collect Yugabyte SQL Statistics

By Sid Choudhury
August 26, 2020

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 >

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Databases, Distributed SQL, How It Works, How To, Open Source, YugabyteDB 2.2

Introducing yugabyted, the Simplest Way to Get Started with YugabyteDB

By Sid Choudhury
August 13, 2020

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 >

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Community News, Company News, Databases, Distributed SQL, PostgreSQL, YugabyteDB 2.2

Announcing YugabyteDB 2.2 – Distributed SQL Made Easy

By Sid Choudhury
July 15, 2020

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 >

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Amazon Aurora, CockroachDB, Databases, Distributed SQL, How It Works, PostgreSQL

Why We Built YugabyteDB by Reusing the PostgreSQL Query Layer

By Sid Choudhury
April 24, 2020

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 >

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Containers, Databases, Distributed SQL, Google Cloud Platform, Google Spanner, How To, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL

Spanning the Globe without Google Spanner

By Sid Choudhury
April 16, 2020

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 >

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Databases, Distributed SQL, GraphQL, Open Source, PostgreSQL, YugabyteDB 2.1

YugabyteDB 2.1 is GA: Scaling New Heights with Distributed SQL

By Sid Choudhury
February 25, 2020

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 >

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Databases, Distributed SQL

Distributed SQL vs. NewSQL

By Sid Choudhury
January 28, 2020

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 >

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Amazon Aurora, CockroachDB, Databases, Distributed SQL, Google Spanner, How It Works, PostgreSQL

What is Distributed SQL?

By Sid Choudhury
November 25, 2019

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 >

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Community News, Distributed SQL, Ecosystem Integrations, How To, Kubernetes, Open Source

Announcing YugabyteDB on Crossplane, the Open Source Multicloud Control Plane

By Sid Choudhury
November 18, 2019

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 >

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ACID Transactions, Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, CockroachDB, Distributed SQL, Google Spanner, How It Works, PostgreSQL

9 Techniques to Build Cloud-Native, Geo-Distributed SQL Apps with Low Latency

By Sid Choudhury
October 17, 2019

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 >

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