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 >
PostgreSQL Compatibility in YugabyteDB 2.0
The team at Yugabyte and members of the community were excited to announce the general availability of YugabyteDB 2.0 this week. One of the flagship features of the release was the production readines… Read More >
Low Latency Reads in Geo-Distributed SQL with Raft Leader Leases
Note: This post contains interactive animations that explain how some of these complex algorithms work. Please view this post in a suitable media (at least 1000px by 600px screen resolution) for best … Read More >
YugabyteDB 1.2 Passes Jepsen Testing
You can join the discussion about the results on HackerNews here. Last year we published our DIY Jepsen testing results - including the tests and failure modes implemented as well as the bugs found. … Read More >
YugaByte DB High Availability & Transactions for PostgreSQL & MongoDB Developers
In the first post of our series comparing YugaByte DB with PostgreSQL and MongoDB, we mapped the core concepts in YugaByte DB to the two popular databases. This post is a deeper dive into the high av… Read More >
7 Issues to Consider When Evaluating FoundationDB
FoundationDB enjoys a unique spot in the transactional NoSQL space given its positioning as a basic key-value database that can be used to build new, more application-friendly databases. Given that ma… Read More >
Rise of Globally Distributed SQL Databases – Redefining Transactional Stores for Cloud Native Era
At last month’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Seattle, the single biggest change from previous container-related conferences was the excitement among the end user companies around their adoption of Ku… Read More >
Why are NoSQL Databases Becoming Transactional?
The NoSQL database revolution started with the publication of the Google BigTable and Amazon Dynamo papers in 2006 and 2007 respectively. These original designs focused on horizontal write scalability… Read More >
YugaByte Announces Kubernetes StatefulSets Support to Enable Scale-Out PostgreSQL Deployments
YugaByte is excited to be at KubeCon today to announce Kubernetes StatefulSets support for our distributed SQL API which complements the transactional NoSQL APIs already generally available. YSQL is Y… Read More >
Are MongoDB’s ACID Transactions Ready for High Performance Applications?
Web app developers initially adopted MongoDB for its ability to model data as “schemaless” JSON documents. This was a welcome relief to many who were previously bitten by the rigid structure and s… Read More >
