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YugabyteDB vs CockroachDB Performance Benchmarks for Internet-Scale Transactional Workloads

January 24, 2019

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YugabyteDB vs CockroachDB Performance Benchmarks for Internet-Scale Transactional Workloads

Enterprises building cloud native services are gravitating towards transactional NoSQL and globally distributed SQL databases as their next-generation transactional stores. There are at least two distinct usage patterns among these cloud native services – internet-scale transactional workloads and scale-out RDBMS workloads. They have a lot of common demands from the database they use, such as transactions/strong consistency, data modeling flexibility, ease of scaling out and fault tolerance. However, there are some notable differences between these workloads:

Internet-scale transactional workloads are optimized for scale and performance without any compromises to data correctness.

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YugaByte Database Engineering Update – Nov 27, 2018

November 27, 2018

By Karthik Ranganathan

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YugaByte Database Engineering Update – Nov 27, 2018

Lots has happened since our last engineering update about 3 months ago. Below are some of the highlights.

PostgreSQL API Updates & PostgresConf Silicon Valley Wrap-Up

We have made a lot of progress on YSQL, the PostgreSQL compatible distributed SQL API for YugabyteDB! You can also read about YSQL architecture which covers how distributed SQL is implemented in YugabyteDB.

We were at the first ever PostgresConf Silicon Valley in October 2018.

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YSQL Architecture: Implementing Distributed SQL in YugabyteDB

October 25, 2018

By Karthik Ranganathan

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YSQL Architecture: Implementing Distributed SQL in YugabyteDB

In this post, we will look at the architecture of YSQL, the PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL API in YugabyteDB. We will also touch on the current state of the project and the next steps in progress. Here is a quick overview:

YugabyteDB has a common distributed storage engine that powers both SQL and NoSQL
For supporting NoSQL apps, YugabyteDB is designed for low latency, sub-millisecond reads and massive write scalability. It can handle millions of requests and many TBs of data per node with linear scalability and high resilience.

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Introducing YSQL: A PostgreSQL Compatible Distributed SQL API for YugabyteDB

October 25, 2018

By Karthik Ranganathan

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Introducing YSQL: A PostgreSQL Compatible Distributed SQL API for YugabyteDB

YugaByte’s mission from day one has been to simplify operational database infrastructure. We are doing so by bringing together the best aspects of SQL and NoSQL into a single transactional, high-performance database. I am pleased to announce a key milestone in our mission with the formal introduction of YSQL, YugabyteDB’s PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL API, as part of the recent 1.1 release. YSQL (currently in beta) becomes the third member of our multi-API family that previously included two NoSQL APIs,

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YugabyteDB 1.1 New Feature: Public IPs to Simplify Multi or Hybrid Cloud Database Deployments

October 2, 2018

By Karthik Ranganathan

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YugabyteDB 1.1 New Feature: Public IPs to Simplify Multi or Hybrid Cloud Database Deployments

Welcome to another post in our ongoing series that highlights new features from the latest 1.1 release announced last week. Today we are going to look at the importance of public IP addresses and hostnames in simplifying multi-cloud and hybrid cloud deployments.

In modern cloud deployments, servers often have a combination of private IP addresses (used in the private LAN and often the IP address of the network interface on the server),

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YugabyteDB 1.1 New Feature: Document Data Modeling with the JSON Data Type

September 26, 2018

By Karthik Ranganathan

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YugabyteDB 1.1 New Feature: Document Data Modeling with the JSON Data Type

Welcome to another post in our ongoing series that highlights new features from the latest 1.1 release announced last week. Today we are going to look at document data modeling using the native JSON data type available in YugabyteDB’s Cassandra compatible YCQL API. Note that this data type is specific to YugabyteDB and is not part of the standard Cassandra Query Language (CQL).

With YugabyteDB’s native JSON support,

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YugabyteDB 1.1 New Feature: Speeding Up Queries with Secondary Indexes

September 25, 2018

By Karthik Ranganathan

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YugabyteDB 1.1 New Feature: Speeding Up Queries with Secondary Indexes

Welcome to another post from our ongoing series where we highlight a new feature from the latest 1.1 release! Today we are going to look at secondary indexes.

Defining Secondary Indexes

A database index is a data structure that improves the speed of data retrieval operations on a database table. Typically, databases are very efficient at looking up data by the primary key. A secondary index can be created using one or more columns of a database table,

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September 21, 2018

By Karthik Ranganathan

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Technical Deep Dive into YugabyteDB 1.1

We announced the general availability of YugabyteDB 1.1 earlier this week. You can download the latest version for your OS or use our default container image as documented in our Quick Start page.

YugabyteDB is an open source database for high performance applications that require ACID transactions and multi-region data distribution. By combining transactional NoSQL and distributed SQL in a single database, YugabyteDB eliminates the need for multiple databases.

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September 17, 2018

By Karthik Ranganathan

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Jepsen Testing on YugabyteDB

At YugaByte, our mission is to build a robust, reliable, distributed OLTP database. Needless to say, we take correctness and technical accuracy of our claims very seriously. Therefore, we absolutely love a testing framework like Jepsen which helps verify correctness and are fans of Kyle Kingsbury’s work!

Here is a summary of what we have done so far in regards to Jepsen:

We have performed our own DIY style Jepsen testing
The YugabyteDB Jepsen testing repository is open source
For the current suite of Jepsen tests for YugabyteDB that we have tested in a loop,

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August 20, 2018

By Karthik Ranganathan

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Author: Karthik Ranganathan

YugabyteDB vs CockroachDB Performance Benchmarks for Internet-Scale Transactional Workloads

YugaByte Database Engineering Update – Nov 27, 2018

PostgreSQL API Updates & PostgresConf Silicon Valley Wrap-Up

YSQL Architecture: Implementing Distributed SQL in YugabyteDB

Introducing YSQL: A PostgreSQL Compatible Distributed SQL API for YugabyteDB

YugabyteDB 1.1 New Feature: Public IPs to Simplify Multi or Hybrid Cloud Database Deployments

YugabyteDB 1.1 New Feature: Document Data Modeling with the JSON Data Type

YugabyteDB 1.1 New Feature: Speeding Up Queries with Secondary Indexes

Defining Secondary Indexes

Technical Deep Dive into YugabyteDB 1.1

Jepsen Testing on YugabyteDB

YugaByte Database Engineering Update – August 20, 2018

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