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YugabyteDB Engineering Update – Dec 19, 2019

YugabyteDB Engineering Update – Dec 19, 2019

We are pleased to announce that YugabyteDB 2.0.8 is live!  You can read the official release notes of this and previous versions here. This release is shipping with 12 new enhancements and fixes.

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. Yugabyte’s SQL API (YSQL) is PostgreSQL wire compatible.

YSQL Changes

  • Enable client-to-server TLS encryption for the postgres process in case use_client_to_server_encryption is set to true.

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Getting Started with PostgreSQL’s Row Level Security in YugabyteDB

Getting Started with PostgreSQL’s Row Level Security in YugabyteDB

In this blog post we are going to introduce you to how PostgreSQL’s row level security feature works in the latest YugabyteDB 2.0.6 release. YugabyteDB supports RLS and a host of other security and encryption features “out-of-the-box,” as part of the open source distribution.

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. Yugabyte’s SQL API (YSQL) and drivers are PostgreSQL wire compatible.

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Using Stored Procedures in Distributed SQL Databases

Using Stored Procedures in Distributed SQL Databases

These days, most monolithic SQL databases support stored procedures. This support first emerged in commercially available offerings in the late nineteen eighties. However, stored procedure support is not yet standard in distributed SQL databases. In fact, YugabyteDB is just one of two in this category—supporting stored procedures written in PostgreSQL’s PL/pgSQL. (Aurora also supports stored procedures.) This post recaps the case for stored procedures that motivated their introduction all those years ago. And it describes a performance experiment that measures one of the benefits brought by using stored procedures: the reduction in client-server round trips for multi-statement business transactions.

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Announcing YugabyteDB on Crossplane, the Open Source Multicloud Control Plane

Announcing YugabyteDB on Crossplane, the Open Source Multicloud Control Plane

We are excited to announce that YugabyteDB is now available as a self-managed database service on Crossplane, the open-source multicloud control plane. Built on top of our recent Rook Kubernetes Operator for YugabyteDB, this offering makes YugabyteDB one of the first distributed SQL databases available on Crossplane.

Benefits of the Joint Solution

With Crossplane as the single control plane, users can provision and manage multiple YugabyteDB clusters across Google Kubernetes Engine,

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YugabyteDB Community Engineering Update, Tricks and Tips – Oct 18, 2019

YugabyteDB Community Engineering Update, Tricks and Tips – Oct 18, 2019

Welcome to this week’s community update where we recap a few interesting questions that have popped up in the last week or so on the YugabyteDB Slack channel, the Forum, GitHub or Stackoverflow. We’ll also review upcoming events, new blogs and documentation that has been published since the last update. Ok, let’s dive right in:

Running yb-ctl status does not give node information

Question

AndrewLiuRM over on the forums asked why the yb-ctl command doesn’t give node information when issued after a manual deployment onto a Docker container.

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Getting Started with PostgreSQL Triggers in a Distributed SQL Database

Getting Started with PostgreSQL Triggers in a Distributed SQL Database

Triggers are a basic feature that all monolithic SQL systems like Oracle, SQL Server and PostgreSQL have supported for many years. They are very useful in a variety of scenarios ranging from simple audit logging, to advanced tasks like updating remote databases in a federated cluster. In this blog, we’ll look at examples of INSERT, UPDATE and INSTEAD OF triggers in Yugabyte DB.

What’s Yugabyte DB? 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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Announcing the Rook Operator for YugabyteDB

Announcing the Rook Operator for YugabyteDB

We are excited to congratulate the Rook community on the release on 1.1! We are also pleased to announce that the Rook operator for YugabyteDB is now available from rook.io and also on Github. This release extends the Rook storage operator as a custom resource, as well as provides an additional way to easily create, natively view and manage YugabyteDB within a Kubernetes cluster. In this blog we’ll summarize how to get started with the operator.

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Best Practices and Recommendations for Distributed SQL on Kubernetes

Best Practices and Recommendations for Distributed SQL on Kubernetes

YugabyteDB and Kubernetes have very complementary design principles because they both rely on an extensible and flexible API layer, as well as a scale-out architecture for performance and availability. In this blog post we’ll look at best practices and recommendations when choosing Kubernetes as the cluster foundation for a distributed SQL system. This will begin with a review of relevant architectural decisions of the YugabyteDB. Then we’ll walk you through how to handle the provisioning,

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Getting Started with PGAdmin on a Distributed SQL Database

Getting Started with PGAdmin on a Distributed SQL Database

If you’re a database developer, you already understand the importance of a tool to manage your databases. Whether it is for creating schemas, ad-hoc querying, backups, or diving deeper to troubleshoot a database issue, a database tool can make your life much easier and increase your productivity. In a previous post we covered how to get started with DBeaver, and in this post we’ll show you how to get up and running with YugabyteDB and PGAdmin.

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