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Announcing YugabyteDB 1.2 and Company Update
March 13, 2019
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Announcing YugabyteDB 1.2 and Company Update

The team at YugaByte is excited to announce that YugabyteDB 1.2 is officially GA! You can download the latest version from our Quick Start page.

New in 1.2: YugaByte SQL Beta 3

YugaByte SQL (YSQL) is our PostgreSQL v11 compatible, distributed SQL API. It is ideal for powering microservices that require low latency, internet scale, geographic data distribution and extreme resilience to failures but want the data modeling flexibility of SQL (joins,

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Recapping YugaByte’s 2018 Milestones and a Preview of the 2019 Roadmap
January 8, 2019
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Recapping YugaByte’s 2018 Milestones and a Preview of the 2019 Roadmap

After launching YugabyteDB in November 2017, Team YugaByte celebrated 2018 as its first full year in the market as a cloud native, transactional database company. Exhilarating is the one word that best summarizes our 2018 experience. From a product and engineering standpoint, we launched two major releases (and tens of minor releases) and saw users adopt each of the releases at an amazing pace. This story of exceeded expectations repeated itself at every other function in the company whether it be sales,

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YugaByte Announces Kubernetes StatefulSets Support to Enable Scale-Out PostgreSQL Deployments
December 10, 2018
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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 YugabyteDB’s PostgreSQL-compatible Distributed SQL API (currently in Beta). This new feature, available in YugabyteDB 1.1.7, cloud-native applications and microservices can rely on SQL and NoSQL to take full advantage of Kubernetes StatefulSets to power horizontally scalable, highly fault-tolerant data services,

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YugaByte Database Engineering Update – Nov 27, 2018
November 27, 2018
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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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YugabyteDB 1.1 New Feature: Document Data Modeling with the JSON Data Type
September 26, 2018
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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
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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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Technical Deep Dive into YugabyteDB 1.1
September 21, 2018
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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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Ravi Murthy: Starting a New Chapter with YugaByte
September 19, 2018
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Ravi Murthy: Starting a New Chapter with YugaByte

In case you missed the announcement, Ravi Murthy has joined YugaByte as our VP of Engineering. Read on to learn more about his experiences leading the teams who managed the explosive growth of applications and data at Facebook, plus what’s next at YugaByte!

After almost 7 years at Facebook, I am super-excited to start in my new role as YugaByte’s VP of Engineering. This post provides a brief history of my career through the years,

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Jepsen Testing on YugabyteDB
September 17, 2018
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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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