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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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July 10, 2020

By Jimmy Guerrero

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GraphQL & Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – July 10, 2020

Welcome to this week’s tips and tricks blog where we explore topics related to combining GraphQL and YugabyteDB to develop scalable APIs and services. We’ll also review upcoming events, new documentation, and blogs that have been published since the last tips and tricks post.

This next section is for those of you who might be new to either GraphQL or distributed SQL.

What’s GraphQL?

GraphQL is a query language (more specifically a specification) for your API,

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June 29, 2020

By Dorian Hoxha

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Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – June 29, 2020

Welcome to this week’s tips and tricks blog where we recap some distributed SQL questions from around the Internet. We’ll also review upcoming events, new documentation, and blogs that have been published since the last post. Got questions? Make sure to ask them on our YugabyteDB Slack channel, Forum, GitHub, or Stackoverflow. Ok, let’s dive right in:

Regular expression queries (or pattern matching queries)

YugabyteDB inherits PostgreSQL upper layer,

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Polymorphism in SQL part two – variadic functions

June 25, 2020

By Bryn Llewellyn

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Polymorphism in SQL part two – variadic functions

YugabyteDB is an open source, high-performance distributed SQL database built on a scalable and fault-tolerant design inspired by Google Spanner. YugabyteDB uses its own special distributed document store called DocDB. But it provides SQL and stored procedure functionality by re-using the “upper half” of the standard PostgreSQL source code. This is explained in the two part blog post “Distributed PostgreSQL on a Google Spanner Architecture”: (1) Storage Layer; and (2) Query Layer.

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Polymorphism in SQL part one – anyelement and anyarray

June 24, 2020

By Bryn Llewellyn

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Polymorphism in SQL part one – anyelement and anyarray

The term “polymorphism”, and its inflections, has various meanings in the context of programming languages in general. Roughly, it means “chameleon-like”. Of course, Wikipedia has something to say about it, here. PostgreSQL uses it with this meaning: “Parametric polymorphism: when one or more types are not specified by name but by… symbols that can represent any type”.

The term “variadic” has a universal meaning,

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SQL Puzzle: Partial Versus Expression Indexes

June 18, 2020

By Karthik Ranganathan

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SQL Puzzle: Partial Versus Expression Indexes

Here is an intriguing SQL puzzle we came across in the context of a real-world use case. This post shows the power of advanced RDBMS features such as partial indexes and expression indexes.

Let us assume we have a table in PostgreSQL named users, where each row in the table represents a user. The table is defined as follows.

CREATE TABLE users (
id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
email VARCHAR DEFAULT NULL,
name VARCHAR
);

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Oracle vs PostgreSQL: First Glance – Testing YugabyteDB’s Compatibility

May 14, 2020

By Jimmy Guerrero

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Oracle vs PostgreSQL: First Glance – Testing YugabyteDB’s Compatibility

This post explores the compatibility of YugabyteDB with Oracle and PostgreSQL by examining 15 different Oracle features and their PostgreSQL equivalents highlighted in Roland Takacs’ blog post “Oracle vs PostgreSQL: First Glance.” As a PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL database, YugabyteDB offers a broad range of SQL features, making it an interesting choice for those looking to migrate from Oracle to a modern tech stack.

Boosting Performance for Small Distributed SQL Data Sets with Colocated Tables

May 12, 2020

By Neha Deodhar

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Boosting Performance for Small Distributed SQL Data Sets with Colocated Tables

In YugabyteDB v2.1, we released a new feature in beta: colocated tables. And we were excited to announce the general availability of colocated tables, along with many other exciting new features, in YugabyteDB 2.2. In this post, we’ll explain what colocated tables are in a distributed SQL database, why you would need them, and how to get started.

May 8, 2020

By Dorian Hoxha

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Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – May 8, 2020

How can I connect YugabyteDB with Apache Spark?

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May 6, 2020

By Jimmy Guerrero

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YugabyteDB Engineering Update – May 6, 2020

YugabyteDB Release Updates

We are excited to announce that YugabyteDB 2.1.5 is GA! The 2.1.5 release shipped with over 40 new enhancements and fixes. Also, yesterday we hit a milestone that we are very proud of–we welcomed our 1000th member to the YugabyteDB community Slack channel! Congrats to Rob Sami for being the 1000th member, and thank you to the entire YugabyteDB community for your contributions and support along the way.

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What’s GraphQL?

Regular expression queries (or pattern matching queries)

How can I connect YugabyteDB with Apache Spark?

YugabyteDB Release Updates

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