Author: Jimmy Guerrero

PostgreSQL Compatibility in YugabyteDB 2.0

September 17, 2019

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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 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. In this post we’d like to take the opportunity to dive a little deeper into the PostgreSQL compatibility features to demonstrate what’s supported and what’s around the corner.

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Getting Started with TablePlus on a Distributed SQL Database

August 23, 2019

By Jimmy Guerrero

Distributed SQL Ecosystem Integrations PostgreSQL

Getting Started with TablePlus on a Distributed SQL Database

If you’re a database developer, you already understand the importance of a tool to manage your databases. Whether it is for creating schemas, ad-hoc querying, backups, or diving deeper to troubleshoot a database issue, a database tool can make your life much easier and increase your productivity. In a previous posts we covered how to get started with DBeaver, PGAdmin, and SQL Workbench/J. in this post we’ll show you how to get up and running with YugabyteDB and TablePlus.

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Getting Started with PGAdmin on a Distributed SQL Database

August 14, 2019

By Jimmy Guerrero

Distributed SQL How To PostgreSQL

Getting Started with PGAdmin on a Distributed SQL Database

If you’re a database developer, you already understand the importance of a tool to manage your databases. Whether it is for creating schemas, ad-hoc querying, backups, or diving deeper to troubleshoot a database issue, a database tool can make your life much easier and increase your productivity. In a previous post we covered how to get started with DBeaver, and in this post we’ll show you how to get up and running with YugabyteDB and PGAdmin.

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2019 Distributed SQL Summit Confirmed Speakers & Schedule is Live!

August 9, 2019

By Jimmy Guerrero

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2019 Distributed SQL Summit Confirmed Speakers & Schedule is Live!

YugaByte is excited to announce that speaker schedule for this year’s Distributed SQL Summit is live!

Distributed SQL Summit is a full day of talks from experts on what it takes to build, deploy and scale distributed SQL databases in the cloud and on Kubernetes.

Presented in partnership with PostgresConf, the inaugural Distributed SQL Summit is taking place on September 20, 2019 in San Jose,

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YugabyteDB Engineering & Community Update – Aug 9, 2019

August 8, 2019

By Jimmy Guerrero

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YugabyteDB Engineering & Community Update – Aug 9, 2019

We are pleased to announce that YugabyteDB 1.3.1 is live! You can read the release notes of this and previous versions here. This release is shipping with 22 new features, enhancements and bug fixes. This release also brings us closer to our 2.0 release which will be shipping in a few weeks. The flagship feature in 2.0 will be the YSQL API becoming generally available.

What’s YSQL?

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Getting Started with SQL Workbench/J on a Distributed SQL Database

August 1, 2019

By Jimmy Guerrero

Distributed SQL Ecosystem Integrations PostgreSQL

Getting Started with SQL Workbench/J on a Distributed SQL Database

Although most databases ship with a command line utility to administer the instance, these utilities often come with a steep learning curve. If using the command line and learning sometimes arcane syntax makes you uncomfortable, there are graphical tools that can help you speed up many daily DBA tasks. In fact, you can find a comprehensive list of tools on the PostgreSQL wiki here. In a previous blog we explored the DBeaver database management tool,

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PostgreSQL How To: Installing the Chinook Sample DB on a Distributed SQL Database

July 30, 2019

By Jimmy Guerrero

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PostgreSQL How To: Installing the Chinook Sample DB on a Distributed SQL Database

In this post we are going to walk you through how to download and install the PostgreSQL version of the Chinook sample DB on the YugabyteDB distributed SQL database with a replication factor of 3.

What’s YugabyteDB? It’s a high performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale apps. YugabyteDB is a PostgreSQL-compatible database. Similar to Google Spanner, YugabyteDB gives you all the scalability characteristics of NoSQL, without sacrificing the ACID transactions or strong consistency you are accustomed to with PostgreSQL.

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Getting Started with DBeaver on a Distributed SQL Database

July 26, 2019

By Jimmy Guerrero

Distributed SQL How To PostgreSQL

Getting Started with DBeaver on a Distributed SQL Database

Editor’s note: Updated July 7, 2020 with the new DBeaver wizard

If you’re a database developer, you know that you need different SQL statements for creating schemas, ad-hoc querying, initiating backups, or troubleshooting. For these scenarios, finding the right graphical tool can speed up these tasks and make you more productive. Over the years, the PostgreSQL community has developed several open source graphical tools for managing PostgreSQL databases, visualizing the datasets it contains,

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PostgreSQL How-to: SportsDB Running on a Distributed SQL Database

July 25, 2019

By Jimmy Guerrero

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PostgreSQL How-to: SportsDB Running on a Distributed SQL Database

SportsDB is a sample dataset compiled from multiple sources, encompassing a variety of sports including football, baseball, ice hockey and more. It also cross-references many different types of content media. It is capable of supporting queries for the most intense of sports data applications, yet is simple enough for use by those with minimal database experience. The database itself is comprised of over 100 tables and just as many sequences, unique constraints, foreign keys and indexes.

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How-to: The PGExercises PostgreSQL Tutorial Running on a Distributed SQL Database

July 21, 2019

By Jimmy Guerrero

Distributed SQL How To PostgreSQL

How-to: The PGExercises PostgreSQL Tutorial Running on a Distributed SQL Database

PgExercises is a sample dataset used to power the PostgreSQL Exercises website. The site is comprised of over 80 exercises designed to be used as a companion to the official PostgreSQL documentation. The exercises on the PGExercises site range from simple SELECT statements and WHERE clauses, through JOINs and CASE statements, then on to aggregations, window functions, and recursive queries.

The dataset consists of 3 tables (members, bookings, and facilities) and table relationships as shown in the ER diagram below:

In this post we are going to walk you through how to download and install PGExercises on the YugabyteDB distributed SQL database with a replication factor of 3.

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