We are excited to announce that Yugabyte has closed $188 million in oversubscribed Series C funding. Sapphire Ventures led the round with participation from Alkeon Capital, Meritech Capital, and Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, as well as existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, 8VC, Dell Technologies Capital, Wipro Ventures, and others. This round comes seven months after our previous round in March 2021,
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A distributed SQL database reads from remote nodes, which increases the need for optimal data access. From my 20 years of experience as a database consultant, here is the most overlooked optimization technique for any database that supports it: performance-critical queries should find their columns from the index structure, without making extra hops to the table.
Many myths against SQL, such as “joins don’t scale” or “analytic queries need a separate column store”,
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The Yugabyte community is always active and its members are constantly having interesting conversations and making valuable contributions. We spotlight members of the community to recognize their contributions to making the Yugabyte community a great place.
Warren Wilfred L. Cruz, Data Solutions Architect @ EXIST Software Labs, Inc.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/wawicruz and LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/warrencruzpostgrex
If you’re on the Yugabyte community Slack,
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In this blog post, you’ll learn how to implement a timer for multi-statement operations using SQL with YugabyteDB or PostgreSQL. These tools are commonly used for various tasks, but their native timing feature only times individual SQL statements and doesn’t support end-to-end timing or output to spool files.
The Yugabyte community is always active and its members are constantly having interesting conversations and making valuable contributions. We spotlight members of the community to recognize their contributions to making the Yugabyte community a great place.
Martin Roos, Head of Technology @ Fortumo
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-roos-16ab7532/
If you’re on the Yugabyte community Slack often, you’ve seen Martin Roos. He’s an active member of the community,
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YugabyteDB is the database of choice for building stateful cloud native apps that require resilience and scale. YugabyteDB offers Spring developers an easy way to deploy a transactional, resilient and geo-distributed database in their application stack from the outset, while also providing flexibility and scalability as requirements change. The Spring community has always been a major influence on what we build at Yugabyte. Many of our customers rely on the immensely popular Spring Boot framework to build microservices.
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As developers, many of us are aware of source versioning which helps us easily track and manage changes to the source code of our applications. Schema versioning is to databases what source versioning is to the applications. It helps track and manage the changes to the databases that our applications rely on.
In this blog post, we will talk about using Flyway – one of the most popular tools that simplify schema versioning for databases –
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Welcome back to our bi-weekly tips and tricks blog where I have the pleasure of recapping some distributed SQL questions from around the Internet. I had a month long hiatus this summer, so we are making it up by adding an extra entry into this week’s edition. As always, this blog series would not be possible without all of the behind the scenes work done by Yugabeings such as Dorian Hoxha and Frits Hoogland.
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Yugabyte is on a mission to build the default database for cloud native applications and simplify operational data infrastructure. Our latest release, YugabyteDB 2.6, is a big step forward towards that goal. YugabyteDB 2.6 includes significant enhancements to the open source database and our self-managed DBaaS offering, Yugabyte Platform. These enhancements, including point in time recovery (PITR), default encryption in transit, availability of Yugabyte Platform on Microsoft Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, and VMware Tanzu, and Yugabyte Platform high availability,
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The Yugabyte community is always active and its members are constantly having interesting conversations and making valuable contributions. We spotlight members of the community to recognize their contributions to making the Yugabyte community a great place.
Radek Gruchalski, Managing Director & Software Engineer @ Klarrio GmbH
GitHub: https://github.com/radekg/, LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/radgruchalski,
Blog: https://gruchalski.com/
If you’re on the Yugabyte community Slack often,
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