Distributed SQL

Achieving Fast Failovers After Network Partitions in a Distributed SQL Database
May 15, 2019
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Achieving Fast Failovers After Network Partitions in a Distributed SQL Database

In February of this year, Kyle Kingsbury of Jepsen.io was conducting formal testing of YugabyteDB for correctness under extreme and unorthodox conditions. Obviously, simulating all manner of network partitions is part of his testing methodology. As a result, during his testing he spotted the fact that although nodes would reliably come back after a failure, the recovery itself was taking roughly 25 seconds to occur. We certainly didn’t like the sound of that!

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YugabyteDB 2.0: A Distributed SQL Roadmap
May 13, 2019
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YugabyteDB 2.0: A Distributed SQL Roadmap

The YugabyteDB community is eagerly looking forward to v2.0, the next major release expected in Summer 2019. Needless to say, we are very excited about the depth and breadth of features in this release. Here’s an overview of the various areas we expect the new release to cover.

Distributed SQL

YSQL is YugabyteDB’s PostgreSQL wire-compatible distributed SQL API. Thanks to our design decision to use the existing PostgreSQL query layer as a starting point,

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Why Distributed SQL Beats Polyglot Persistence for Building Microservices?
May 2, 2019
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Why Distributed SQL Beats Polyglot Persistence for Building Microservices?

Today’s microservices rely on data with different models and read/write access patterns. Polyglot persistence, first introduced in 2008, states that each such data model should be powered by an independent database that is purpose-built for that model. This post highlights the loss of agility that microservices development and operations suffer when adopting polyglot persistence. We review how distributed SQL serves as an alternative approach that doesn’t compromise this agility.

E-Commerce Example

Polyglot Persistence in Action at an E-Commerce App (Source: Martin Fowler)

Breaking down monolithic applications into smaller,

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6 Technical Challenges Developing a Distributed SQL Database
April 26, 2019
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6 Technical Challenges Developing a Distributed SQL Database

You can join the discussion on HackerNews here.

We crossed the three year mark of developing the YugabyteDB database in February of 2019. It has been a thrilling journey thus far, but not without its fair share of technical challenges. There were times when we had to go back to the drawing board and even sift through academic research to find a better solution than what we had at hand.

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Distributed SQL on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with YugabyteDB’s Helm Chart
April 10, 2019
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Distributed SQL on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with YugabyteDB’s Helm Chart

The glory days of the heavy-weight hypervisor are slowly fading away, and in the last few years, containerization of applications and services is the new reality. With containerization, enterprises can prototype, deploy, and meet scale demands more quickly. To systematically and efficiently manage these large-scale deployments, enterprises have bet on technologies like Kubernetes (aka k8s), a powerful container orchestrator, to get the job done. Kubernetes was originally developed by Google, but it has been open sourced since 2014 and is today developed by a large community of contributors.

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Distributed PostgreSQL on a Google Spanner Architecture – Query Layer
March 18, 2019
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Distributed PostgreSQL on a Google Spanner Architecture – Query Layer

Our previous post dived into the details of the storage layer of YugabyteDB called DocDB, a distributed document store inspired by Google Spanner. This post focuses on Yugabyte SQL (YSQL), a distributed, highly resilient, PostgreSQL-compatible SQL API layer powered by DocDB. A follow-up post will highlight the challenges faced and lessons learned when engineering such a database.

YSQL, Distributed PostgreSQL Made Real

Yugabyte SQL (YSQL) is a distributed and highly resilient SQL layer,

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Announcing YugabyteDB 1.2 and Company Update
March 13, 2019
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Announcing YugabyteDB 1.2 and Company Update

The team at YugaByte is excited to announce that YugabyteDB 1.2 is officially GA! You can download the latest version from our Quick Start page.

New in 1.2: YugaByte SQL Beta 3

YugaByte SQL (YSQL) is our PostgreSQL v11 compatible, distributed SQL API. It is ideal for powering microservices that require low latency, internet scale, geographic data distribution and extreme resilience to failures but want the data modeling flexibility of SQL (joins,

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How We Built a High Performance Document Store on RocksDB?
February 20, 2019
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How We Built a High Performance Document Store on RocksDB?

This blog post was co-authored by Mikhail Bautin and Kannan Muthukkaruppan

RocksDB is a popular embeddable persistent key-value store. First open sourced by Facebook in 2012 as a fork of the Google LevelDB project, it has been adapted over the years to a wide range of workloads including database storage engines and application data caching.

In this post, we explain our rationale for selecting RocksDB as a foundational building block for YugabyteDB.

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