YugabyteDB

January 25, 2022

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YugabyteDB Integrates with Arctype SQL Client

PostgreSQL has eaten the world. And so Yugabyte set out to build the most Postgres-compatible, scalable, and resilient database. YugabyteDB is not only wire compatible with PostgreSQL, it is code compatible by reusing the upper half of PostgreSQL. Thanks to this compatibility, YugabyteDB can connect to the vast majority of database tools that integrate with Postgres.

In a previous blog post, Yugabyte Developer Advocate Franck Pachot showed how to connect YugabyteDB in Arctype.

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How Abra Controls Transforms Energy Companies with YugabyteDB Managed

December 20, 2021

By Suda Srinivasan

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How Abra Controls Transforms Energy Companies with YugabyteDB Managed

In this blog post, we’ll explore why Abra Controls needed a new database. We’ll detail why it chose YugabyteDB. We’ll then discuss how the company used YugabyteDB Managed to implement its IoT application.

Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – December 16th, 2021

December 16, 2021

By Marko Rajcevic

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Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – December 16th, 2021

Welcome back to our tips and tricks blog series! I have the distinct pleasure of recapping distributed SQL questions from around the Internet for the month of December.

This ongoing series would not be possible without Dorian Hoxha, Franck Pachot, and Frits Hoogland. We also thank our incredible user community for their work with the technology.

Do you have any questions?

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Getting Started with YugabyteDB, Temporal, and the Temporal-Maru Benchmarking Tool

December 15, 2021

By Eric Pratt

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Getting Started with YugabyteDB, Temporal, and the Temporal-Maru Benchmarking Tool

Learn how to integrate Temporal and Maru with the YugabyteDB database to run sample workflows and operate resilient applications using developer-friendly primitives.

Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – November 2nd, 2021

November 2, 2021

By Marko Rajcevic

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Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – November 2nd, 2021

Welcome back to our tips and tricks blog series! With October officially a wrap, I have the pleasure of recapping some distributed SQL questions from around the Internet. There was no Tips and Tricks edition for September as the Yugabyte team was focused on our 2021 Distributed SQL Summit. If you did not have a chance to check it out, you can view the sessions on-demand.

As always,

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How to Build Applications with YugabyteDB and Apache Spark

October 19, 2021

By Wei Wang and Amey Banarse

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How to Build Applications with YugabyteDB and Apache Spark

At Distributed SQL Summit 2021, we presented a workshop on how to build an application using the YugabyteDB Spark Connector and YugabyteDB to deliver business outcomes for our customers.

The YugabyteDB Spark Connector brings together the best of breed technologies Apache Spark — an industry-leading, distributed computing engine — with YugabyteDB, a modern, cloud-native distributed SQL database. This connector allows customers to seamlessly and natively read from, perform complex ETL,

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$A SQL Stopwatch Utility for YugabyteDB or PostgreSQL as an Alternative for “\timing on”$

September 15, 2021

By Bryn Llewellyn

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A SQL Stopwatch Utility for YugabyteDB or PostgreSQL as an Alternative for “\timing on”

In this blog post, you’ll learn how to implement a timer for multi-statement operations using SQL with YugabyteDB or PostgreSQL. These tools are commonly used for various tasks, but their native timing feature only times individual SQL statements and doesn’t support end-to-end timing or output to spool files.

Customer Chat with Paul Gaffney of Kohl’s

July 14, 2021

By Suda Srinivasan

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Customer Chat with Paul Gaffney of Kohl’s

A few weeks ago, Yugabyte CEO Bill Cook and I had the pleasure of speaking with Paul Gaffney, the CTO and Chief Supply Chain Officer of Kohl’s during a virtual fireside chat as part of our Catalysts of Change series. Paul is a visionary tech leader with an extensive track record of driving technology change and innovation at companies like Dick’s Sporting Goods, The Home Depot, and AAA of Northern California,

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How my Wish to Contribute to Open Source Lead me To Join Yugabyte

March 4, 2021

By Deepthi Srinivasan

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How my Wish to Contribute to Open Source Lead me To Join Yugabyte

Databases are omnipresent

Back in 2016 I started at Nutanix, fresh after finishing my graduate studies. This was barely a couple of weeks after two of Nutanix’s employees, Karthik and Kannan, left to start Yugabyte with Mikhail Bautin. They were still the subject of a few watercooler chats at Nutanix, mainly because of their bold decision to enter the database market, one that is definitely not known for being easy.

It became apparent to me why databases are hard.

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Transforming the Omnichannel Experience at Kroger

November 20, 2020

By Dillon Pinto

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Transforming the Omnichannel Experience at Kroger

At the Distributed SQL Summit, Mahesh Tyagarajan – VP Engineering, Kroger – presented the talk “Technology Strategy and Transformation”. The talk focused around the technology infrastructure, current challenges, and the need faced by Kroger to transform its technology stack.

Kroger is as big as retail gets

Kroger is the largest supermarket in the US, 2nd largest retailer in the US,

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