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Getting Started with SQL Workbench/J on a Distributed SQL Database
August 1, 2019
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Distributed SQLEcosystem IntegrationsPostgreSQL

Getting Started with SQL Workbench/J on a Distributed SQL Database

Although most databases ship with a command line utility to administer the instance, these utilities often come with a steep learning curve. If using the command line and learning sometimes arcane syntax makes you uncomfortable, there are graphical tools that can help you speed up many daily DBA tasks. In fact, you can find a comprehensive list of tools on the PostgreSQL wiki here. In a previous blog we explored the DBeaver database management tool,

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PostgreSQL How To: Installing the Chinook Sample DB on a Distributed SQL Database
July 30, 2019
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Distributed SQLHow ToPostgreSQL

PostgreSQL How To: Installing the Chinook Sample DB on a Distributed SQL Database

In this post we are going to walk you through how to download and install the PostgreSQL version of the Chinook sample DB on the YugabyteDB distributed SQL database with a replication factor of 3.

What’s YugabyteDB? It’s a high performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale apps. YugabyteDB is a PostgreSQL-compatible database. Similar to Google Spanner, YugabyteDB gives you all the scalability characteristics of NoSQL, without sacrificing the ACID transactions or strong consistency you are accustomed to with PostgreSQL.

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Getting Started with DBeaver on a Distributed SQL Database
July 26, 2019
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DatabasesDistributed SQLHow ToPostgreSQL

Getting Started with DBeaver on a Distributed SQL Database

Editor’s note: Updated July 7, 2020 with the new DBeaver wizard

If you’re a database developer, you know that you need different SQL statements for creating schemas, ad-hoc querying, initiating backups, or troubleshooting. For these scenarios, finding the right graphical tool can speed up these tasks and make you more productive. Over the years, the PostgreSQL community has developed several open source graphical tools for managing PostgreSQL databases, visualizing the datasets it contains,

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PostgreSQL How-to: SportsDB Running on a Distributed SQL Database
July 25, 2019
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Distributed SQLHow ToPostgreSQL

PostgreSQL How-to: SportsDB Running on a Distributed SQL Database

SportsDB is a sample dataset compiled from multiple sources, encompassing a variety of sports including football, baseball, ice hockey and more. It also cross-references many different types of content media. It is capable of supporting queries for the most intense of sports data applications, yet is simple enough for use by those with minimal database experience. The database itself is comprised of over 100 tables and just as many sequences, unique constraints, foreign keys and indexes.

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YugabyteDB Engineering & Community Update – July 19, 2019
July 19, 2019
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Community NewsDistributed SQLYugabyteDB

YugabyteDB Engineering & Community Update – July 19, 2019

We are pleased to announce that YugabyteDB 1.3.0 is live! You can read the release notes of this and previous versions here. This release is shipping with 24 new features, enhancements and bug fixes. Beyond enhancements and fixes, the other big news is that we have open sourced the entire core database code! This means that previously closed features like distributed backups, data encryption and replicas are now open sourced. This also means that upcoming features like change data capture and 2 datacenter deployments will open source as well.

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Why We Changed YugabyteDB Licensing to 100% Open Source
July 16, 2019
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Why We Changed YugabyteDB Licensing to 100% Open Source

We are excited to announce that YugabyteDB is now 100% open source under the Apache 2.0 license. This means previously closed-source, commercial, enterprise features such as Distributed Backups, Data Encryption, and Read Replicas are now available in the open source project and are completely free to use. The same applies to upcoming new features like Change Data Capture and 2 Data Center Deployments. The result of this change is that we no longer have a Community Edition and an Enterprise Edition of YugabyteDB.

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Announcing YugabyteDB 1.3 with Enterprise Features as Open Source
July 16, 2019
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Announcing YugabyteDB 1.3 with Enterprise Features as Open Source

We are very excited to announce the arrival of YugabyteDB 1.3. This post will outline some of the major milestones in this release.

Enterprise Features Move To Open Source

In this release, all the enterprise features in the core DB are now available in open source under the Apache 2.0 license! Effective v1.3, there is no more EE vs CE distinction, there is just one database with all the features you want.

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Relational Data Modeling with Foreign Keys in a Distributed SQL Database
July 2, 2019
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Distributed SQLHow ToPostgreSQL

Relational Data Modeling with Foreign Keys in a Distributed SQL Database

Note added on October 31, 2019

A lot has happened since this post was published in July 2019. Back then, the current YugabyteDB version was 1.2.10. And now, it’s 2.0.3. My original text included some caveats and comments like “Until this support is added in a future release…”. Now, no caveats are needed. I therefore revised my text and the companion downloadable code to remove all reference to those earlier, interim,

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