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What’s New in YugabyteDB 2.5 – Enterprise-Grade Security Features
November 12, 2020
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What’s New in YugabyteDB 2.5 – Enterprise-Grade Security Features

The YugabyteDB 2.5 release adds many critical enterprise-grade security features. This blog post outlines these newly added features.

Authentication

Adding scram-sha-256 authentication

The first notable addition is the addition of a much improved, password-based authentication mechanism called Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism (or simply SCRAM) as described in RFC5802. This scram-sha-256 authentication mechanism, identical to the most secure PostgreSQL authentication schema,

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Announcing YugabyteDB 2.5
November 12, 2020
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Announcing YugabyteDB 2.5

Support for Geo-Partitioning and Enterprise-Grade Security Features

Our mission at Yugabyte is to build the default distributed SQL database for cloud native applications in a multi cloud world. To further that mission, this release brings major enhancements to multi-region deployments, performance, and security features offered by the database – while simultaneously improving on high availability, horizontal scalability, and ease of managing the database.

  • Enhanced multi-region capabilities with geo-partitioning and follower reads: The YugabyteDB 2.5 release adds row-level geo-partitioning capabilities as well as follower reads to the extensive set of multi-region features that YugabyteDB already had.

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Yugabyte Named a 2020 Gartner Cool Vendor in Data Management
November 2, 2020
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Yugabyte Named a 2020 Gartner Cool Vendor in Data Management

We are incredibly proud to have recently been recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor in Data Management! [1]

The report recommends, “as a data and analytics leader focused on delivering cost-effective innovation, you should evaluate emerging technologies, focusing on those that provide new capabilities in familiar data management paradigms, without requiring sizable investments in new skills.“

We couldn’t agree more. This is why we built YugabyteDB with two APIs that implement the same wire protocol,

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Yugabyte Adopts a New Versioning System
October 8, 2020
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Yugabyte Adopts a New Versioning System

Many users in the YugabyteDB community simply love the velocity with which new and exciting features are introduced through frequent releases. However, as more and more business-critical applications start depending on YugabyteDB as the system of record database, there is an increasing need for enterprises to operate existing versions in production longer and avoid adopting fast-moving releases which can go through radical design changes. It’s clear we have different groups of users, each with important needs: those who need to go into production now with the generally available features,

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INSERT INTO Yugabyte (We’re Hiring, October 2020 Edition)
October 5, 2020
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INSERT INTO Yugabyte (We’re Hiring, October 2020 Edition)

Recent Highlights and Happenings

It’s time for another monthly hiring blog post from the Yugabyte team! Although 2020 remains difficult in many ways both nationally and globally, it’s our hope that sharing this information and our currently open positions may be some good news to some of you at a time when it’s needed most.

Since our last post, we have had some very exciting events and announcements, including these highlights …

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Distributed SQL Summit Schedule Now Live!
September 2, 2020
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Distributed SQL Summit Schedule Now Live!

In two weeks, thought leaders, database builders, and application developers are coming together for a free online conference to push the boundaries of cloud native RDBMS forward. Distributed SQL (Virtual) Summit, now in its second year, is taking place September 15-17.

We’re excited to announce that the 2020 Distributed SQL Summit schedule is now live!

Speakers include:

  • VMware – Joe Beda, Principal Engineer
  • Trifacta/UC Berkeley –

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INSERT INTO Yugabyte (We’re Hiring, August 2020 Edition)
August 7, 2020
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INSERT INTO Yugabyte (We’re Hiring, August 2020 Edition)

Recent Highlights and Happenings

It’s time for another monthly hiring blog post from the Yugabyte team! Although it remains a difficult time nationally and globally, it’s our hope that sharing this information and our currently open positions may be some good news at a time when it’s needed most.

Since our last hiring post, we announced the general availability of YugabyteDB 2.2! The highlight of this release is that YugabyteDB now supports fully-transactional distributed backups thus making mission-critical distributed SQL deployments operationally simple,

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Announcing YugabyteDB 2.2 – Distributed SQL Made Easy
July 15, 2020
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Announcing YugabyteDB 2.2 – Distributed SQL Made Easy

We are excited to announce the general availability of YugabyteDB 2.2! The highlight of this release is that YugabyteDB now supports fully-transactional distributed backups thus making mission-critical distributed SQL deployments operationally simple, even for the most demanding enterprise environments. This release also includes critical new features such as online index builds, colocated tables, and deferred constraints. The end result is that YugabyteDB continues to make distributed SQL easy. For those of you who are new to distributed SQL,

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INSERT INTO Yugabyte (We’re Hiring Developer Advocates)
July 8, 2020
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INSERT INTO Yugabyte (We’re Hiring Developer Advocates)

It has been an exciting last few weeks here at Yugabyte! We closed our Series B funding round, Bill Cook (formerly of Pivotal and Greenplum) joined as our new CEO, we reaffirmed our commitment to open source, and achieved a bunch of cool community adoption milestones. We are hiring for several roles across engineering, customer success, and marketing. Particularly, with a new round of funding and exploding interest in Distributed SQL,

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INSERT INTO Yugabyte (We’re Hiring, July 2020 Edition)
July 7, 2020
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INSERT INTO Yugabyte (We’re Hiring, July 2020 Edition)

Recent Highlights and Happenings

It’s been another fast-moving month here at Yugabyte. Although it remains a difficult time nationally and globally, it’s our hope that sharing this information and our currently open positions may be some good news at a time when it’s needed most.

On the momentum front, we recently announced that we raised $30 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round led by 8VC,

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