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Why We Built YugabyteDB by Reusing the PostgreSQL Query Layer

April 24, 2020

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Why We Built YugabyteDB by Reusing the PostgreSQL Query Layer

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 challenges we faced building a distributed SQL database, we have battle scars to prove this insight – we started writing a PostgreSQL-compatible query layer from scratch before realizing that we simply cannot build the world’s best cloud native RDBMS in a timely manner if we persist down this path.

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9 Techniques to Build Cloud-Native, Geo-Distributed SQL Apps with Low Latency

October 17, 2019

By Sid Choudhury

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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 negative impacts of a high-latency, unreliable Wide Area Network (WAN) are minimized.

Geo-Distributed SQL is the Future of RDBMS

Enterprises are increasingly moving to cloud native applications powered by microservices architecture. These applications run on elastic cloud infrastructure such as serverless frameworks and containers.

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2019 Distributed SQL Summit Recap and Highlights

October 2, 2019

By Jimmy Guerrero

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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, Plume Design and others that presented at the first-ever Distributed SQL Summit on Sept 20, 2019.

If you couldn’t make it out to this year’s event, have no fear!

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The Effect of Isolation Levels on Distributed SQL Performance Benchmarking

September 24, 2019

By Karthik Ranganathan

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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 the default isolation level for each database rather than use serializable isolation level in all databases (even though serializable level was not required for these workloads). In addition, we are also happy to share additional results with the workloads run at YugabyteDB’s serializable isolation level.

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Comparing Distributed SQL Performance – YugabyteDB vs. Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL vs. CockroachDB

September 17, 2019

By Karthik Ranganathan

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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.

We are 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 YugabyteDB SQL (YSQL) API. In this blog post, we will look at the performance and scalability of YSQL as compared to two other PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL databases –

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6 Technical Challenges Developing a Distributed SQL Database

April 26, 2019

By Karthik Ranganathan

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6 Technical Challenges Developing a Distributed SQL Database

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We crossed the three year mark of developing the YugabyteDB database in February of 2019. It has been a thrilling journey thus far, but not without its fair share of technical challenges. There were times when we had to go back to the drawing board and even sift through academic research to find a better solution than what we had at hand.

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Rise of Globally Distributed SQL Databases – Redefining Transactional Stores for Cloud Native Era

January 16, 2019

By Sid Choudhury

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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 Kubernetes and the associated cloud native infrastructure ecosystem. The CNCF End User Community page today lists 50+ enterprises and 21+ case studies including those from industry bellwethers such as Capital One, Netflix, Nordstrom and Pinterest. There is a common adoption pattern among all these case studies —

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