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Part 2: Airflow DAGs for Migrating PostgreSQL Data to Distributed SQL
May 21, 2020
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Part 2: Airflow DAGs for Migrating PostgreSQL Data to Distributed SQL

Welcome to part two of our series on how to integrate Apache Airflow and YugabyeDB. In part one we showed you how to get Airflow configured to use YuagbyteDB as a backend. In this second post we’ll show you how to build an Airflow workflow that will migrate data between PostgreSQL and YugabyteDB.

What’s YugabyteDB? It is an open source, high-performance distributed SQL database built on a scalable and fault-tolerant design inspired by Google Spanner.

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Part 1: Deploying a Distributed SQL Backend for Apache Airflow on Google Cloud
May 20, 2020
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Part 1: Deploying a Distributed SQL Backend for Apache Airflow on Google Cloud

Apache Airflow is a popular platform for programmatically authoring, scheduling, and monitoring workflows. Airflow has been deployed by companies like Adobe, Airbnb, Etsy, Instacart, and Square. The advantage of defining workflows as code is that they become more maintainable, versionable, testable, and collaborative. Airflow is used to author these workflows as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) of tasks. Airflow’s scheduler executes your tasks on an array of workers while following the specified dependencies.

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Building the Cloud Native Future – Why I Joined Yugabyte
May 19, 2020
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Building the Cloud Native Future – Why I Joined Yugabyte

I am incredibly proud and honored to be taking on a new role as CEO of Yugabyte. When I started talking with Yugabyte’s founders, Karthik, Kannan and Mikhail, about joining the Yugabyte executive team, I was hooked. I immediately felt a strong alignment between my experiences and goals, and the opportunities ahead at Yugabyte. A lot goes into finding the right role at the right time, but three things in particular really stood out and inspired me to join Yugabyte.

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Welcome Bill Cook as Yugabyte’s New CEO
May 19, 2020
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Welcome Bill Cook as Yugabyte’s New CEO

I’m excited to welcome Bill Cook to the team as the new CEO of Yugabyte! Bill is an extraordinary leader with an exemplary record of building and scaling enterprise infrastructure companies. Bill joins us from Pivotal Software where, as co-founder and President, he was part of the leadership team that helped solidify the company as the gold standard in cloud native software development and led Pivotal through its IPO and subsequent merger with VMware in 2019.

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New 451 Research Report: Distributed SQL
May 13, 2020
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New 451 Research Report: Distributed SQL

Today, we are releasing a new 451 Research report: Distributed SQL, An Enabler for Globally Consistent Transactional Workloads. The report, which we commissioned, explores how database systems, sitting at the heart of the enterprise, play a key role in digital transformation initiatives.

At Yugabyte, we partner with our customers daily to help accelerate their digital initiatives, and we get a front-row seat as their business-critical applications scale to billions and billions of operations per day,

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Boosting Performance for Small Distributed SQL Data Sets with Colocated Tables
May 12, 2020
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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.

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Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – May 8, 2020
May 8, 2020
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Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – May 8, 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:

How can I connect YugabyteDB with Apache Spark?

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YugabyteDB Engineering Update – May 6, 2020
May 6, 2020
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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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Bringing Truth to Competitive Benchmark Claims – YugabyteDB vs CockroachDB, Part 2
May 4, 2020
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Bringing Truth to Competitive Benchmark Claims – YugabyteDB vs CockroachDB, Part 2

In part 1 of this blog series, we highlighted multiple factual errors in the Cockroach Labs analysis of YugabyteDB. In this second post we provide the next layer of detail behind YugabyteDB’s architecture, with an emphasis on comparing it to that of CockroachDB’s.

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TLDR

Yugabyte SQL is based on a reuse of PostgreSQL’s native query layer.

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Bringing Truth to Competitive Benchmark Claims – YugabyteDB vs CockroachDB, Part 1
May 4, 2020
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Bringing Truth to Competitive Benchmark Claims – YugabyteDB vs CockroachDB, Part 1

This is the first in a two part blog series which highlights factual errors in the Cockroach Labs analysis of YugabyteDB. In the second post in this series, we provide the next layer of detail behind YugabyteDB’s architecture, with an emphasis on comparing it to that of CockroachDB’s.

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Introduction

At Yugabyte,

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