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 >
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 >
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 >
2019 Distributed SQL Summit Recap and Highlights
Well, that’s a wrap! Yugabyte would like to extend a special thanks to JD and Amanda from the Postgreconf.org team, and to all the speakers from Facebook, Google, Amazon, Pivotal, Salesforce, Narvar… Read More >
The Effect of Isolation Levels on Distributed SQL Performance Benchmarking
This post addresses a concern raised about a benchmarking result we recently published comparing the performance of YugabyteDB, Amazon Aurora and CockroachDB. It was pointed out that we unfairly used … Read More >
Comparing Distributed SQL Performance – YugabyteDB vs. Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL vs. CockroachDB
Update: A new post "The Effect of Isolation Levels on Distributed SQL Performance Benchmarking" includes performance results from running these workloads at serializable isolation level in YugabyteDB.… Read More >
6 Technical Challenges Developing a Distributed SQL Database
You can join the discussion on HackerNews here. We crossed the three year mark of developing YugabyteDB in February of 2019. It has been a thrilling journey thus far, but not without its fair share o… 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 >
