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YugabyteDB 2.1 is GA: Scaling New Heights with Distributed SQL
February 25, 2020
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YugabyteDB 2.1 is GA: Scaling New Heights with Distributed SQL

Team Yugabyte is excited to announce the general availability of YugabyteDB 2.1! The highlight of this release is that Yugabyte SQL (YSQL), YugabyteDB’s PostgreSQL-compatible API, has not only improved performance 10x since the 2.0 release in September 2019 but is also production ready for multiple geo-distributed deployment scenarios. For those of you who are new to distributed SQL, YugabyteDB is a Google Spanner-inspired, cloud native distributed SQL database that is 100% open source.

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Achieving 10x Better Distributed SQL Performance in YugabyteDB 2.1
February 25, 2020
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Achieving 10x Better Distributed SQL Performance in YugabyteDB 2.1

When starting the YugabyteDB project, our founding thesis was to build a high-performance distributed SQL database for the cloud native era. Achieving high performance will always remain an ongoing initiative, especially when additional optimizations are required to support new features and new use cases. We are excited that the current YugabyteDB 2.1 release has a number of improvements that make Yugabyte SQL’s performance 10x better on average than the previous 2.0 release (from September 2019).

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YugabyteDB Engineering Update – Jan 29, 2020
January 29, 2020
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YugabyteDB Engineering Update – Jan 29, 2020

We are pleased to announce that YugabyteDB 2.0.11 is now live!  You can read the official release notes of this and previous versions here. These two releases shipped with a combined 30+ 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 API

  • Fix txn conflict issues due to absence of cotable ID in DocKey.

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Four Data Sharding Strategies We Analyzed in Building a Distributed SQL Database
January 14, 2020
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Four Data Sharding Strategies We Analyzed in Building a Distributed SQL Database

A distributed SQL database needs to automatically partition the data in a table and distribute it across nodes. This is known as data sharding and it can be achieved through different strategies, each with its own tradeoffs. In this post, we will examine various data sharding strategies for a distributed SQL database, analyze the tradeoffs, explain the rationale for which of these strategies YugabyteDB supports and what we picked as the default sharding strategy.

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YugabyteDB Engineering Update – Jan 8, 2020
January 8, 2020
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YugabyteDB Engineering Update – Jan 8, 2020

We are pleased to announce that YugabyteDB 2.0.9 launched over the holidays and YugabyteDB 2.0.10 is now live!  You can read the official release notes of this and previous versions here. These two releases shipped with a combined 36 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.

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YugabyteDB Engineering Update – Dec 19, 2019
December 18, 2019
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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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YugabyteDB Engineering Update – Dec 9, 2019
December 9, 2019
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YugabyteDB Engineering Update – Dec 9, 2019

We are pleased to announce that YugabyteDB 2.0.7 is live!  You can read the official release notes of this and previous versions here. This release is shipping with almost 30 new enhancements and bug 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

YugabyteDB 2.0.7 Release Notes

YSQL

  • Transparent read restarts for general queries.

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