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What’s New in YugabyteDB 2.5 – Enterprise-Grade Security Features

November 12, 2020

Community News Company News Databases Distributed SQL Release Announcements

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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November 12, 2020

By Karthik Ranganathan

Databases Distributed SQL

Geo-Partitioning of Data in YugabyteDB

Achieve high performance and regulatory compliance for global apps

We are excited to announce the availability of row-level geo-partitioning in YugabyteDB, a feature heavily requested by our user community and enterprise customers alike. This feature allows fine-grained control over pinning data in a user table (at a per-row level) to geographic locations, thereby allowing the data residency to be managed at the database level.

Making the nodes of a multi-region database cluster aware of the location characteristics of the data they store allows conforming to regulatory compliance requirements such as GDPR by keeping the appropriate subset of data local to different regions,

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November 12, 2020

By Karthik Ranganathan

Community News Company News Databases Distributed SQL PostgreSQL Release Announcements

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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Introducing Yugabyte Platform on Microsoft Azure

November 12, 2020

By Chirag Narang

Databases Distributed SQL Microsoft Azure

Introducing Yugabyte Platform on Microsoft Azure

We have been hard at work expanding our ecosystem to be available across major cloud infrastructure providers so we can power applications in any cloud or across clouds. In addition to deploying the YugabyteDB Anywhere (formerly YugabytDB Platform), our commercial database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offering, natively in AWS and GCP, we’re excited to announce the beta release of the Yugabyte Platform on Microsoft Azure. While it’s true Yugabyte Anywhere can already be deployed on Azure as an on premise cloud provider,

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Envoy and Service Meshes for Databases: What the Future Holds

November 11, 2020

By Michelle Brinich

Databases Distributed SQL How It Works PostgreSQL

Envoy and Service Meshes for Databases: What the Future Holds

At the Distributed SQL Summit 2020, Christoph Pakulski, software engineer at Tetrate, and Prasad Radhakrishnan, VP of data engineering at Yugabyte presented the talk “Envoy and Service Meshes for Databases: What the Future Holds”. In the talk, they explored the topics of Envoy, service meshes–specifically Istio, and how they intersect with the database world. Christoph explained the Envoy PostgreSQL network filter extension released earlier in the year,

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YugabyteDB Community Fundamentals Training and Certification Recap

November 10, 2020

By Jimmy Guerrero

Community News Databases Distributed SQL

YugabyteDB Community Fundamentals Training and Certification Recap

We recently held our first ever free “YugabyteDB Fundamentals” community training and certification class. A special thanks to Karen Tamrazyan and all 6000+ the members of the Cloud Study Network for hosting us! If you weren’t able to make it, here’s what you missed…

Course Content

Over the span of 90 minutes we covered the following topics in depth:

Distributed SQL terms, definitions, and comparisons
YugabyteDB architecture and design principles
YSQL API development
Course review and exam prep

We also worked through a variety of hands-on exercises including:

Single and multi-node cluster installs on Mac,

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Yugabyte Named a 2020 Gartner Cool Vendor in Data Management

November 2, 2020

By Michelle Brinich

Company News Databases Distributed SQL

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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Monitoring YugabyteDB in Kubernetes with the Prometheus Operator and Grafana

October 27, 2020

By Bhavin Gandhi

Databases Distributed SQL Kubernetes

Monitoring YugabyteDB in Kubernetes with the Prometheus Operator and Grafana

This blog post is written by guest author Bhavin Gandhi, Software Engineer at InfraCloud Technologies, Inc. InfraCloud helps startups, SMBs, and enterprises scale by adopting cloud-native technologies.

Using the Prometheus Operator has become a common choice when it comes to running Prometheus in a Kubernetes cluster. It can manage Prometheus and Alertmanager for us with the help of CRDs in Kubernetes. The kube-prometheus-stack Helm chart (formerly known as prometheus-operator) comes with Grafana,

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Service Mesh Era: Building Modern Apps with YugabyteDB and Istio

October 21, 2020

By Chirag Narang

Databases Distributed SQL How To Kubernetes

Service Mesh Era: Building Modern Apps with YugabyteDB and Istio

Microservices architectures are becoming the de facto way developers are thinking about how their applications are constructed. But security remains a top concern for many organizations. Given the general trends of the proliferation of threats within the production network and the increased points of privileged access, it is increasingly necessary to adopt a zero-trust network security approach for microservices architectures.

One of the most common security approaches is to set up mTLS.

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Distributed SQL Summit Recap: Mainframe Modernization

October 20, 2020

By Jimmy Guerrero

Databases Distributed SQL How To PostgreSQL

Distributed SQL Summit Recap: Mainframe Modernization

At the Distributed SQL Summit 2020, Brenesh Stanslas Flower Mary – Senior Architect, Wipro Digital, presented the talk “Monolith to Microservices.” In the talk he demonstrated how it is possible to take a large, intertwined mainframe monolith and break it down into microservices using a practical approach. The end-to-end approach he demonstrated made use of Wipro’s “moderniZ” platform which addresses the modernization (or transformation) of UIs, data, and services.

Challenges with Mainframes Today

Brenesh pointed out that although many organizations are well down the path of moving new (and some legacy applications) to the cloud or cloud-native technologies so they can take advantage of the cost savings,

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Databases

Authentication

Adding scram-sha-256 authentication

Achieve high performance and regulatory compliance for global apps

Support for Geo-Partitioning and Enterprise-Grade Security Features

Course Content

Challenges with Mainframes Today

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