Open Source Geo-Distributed Relational Database on Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Google Spanner, conceived in 2007 for internal use in Google AdWords, has been rightly considered a marvel of modern softwar… Read More >
Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – Feb 21, 2020
Welcome to this week’s tips and tricks blog where we recap some distributed SQL questions from around the Internet. We’ll also review upcoming events, new documentation, and blogs that have been p… Read More >
What is Distributed SQL?
SQL has been the de-facto language for relational databases (aka RDBMS) for almost four decades. Relational databases are therefore also known as SQL databases. However, the original SQL databases lik… Read More >
9 Techniques to Build Cloud-Native, Geo-Distributed SQL Apps with Low Latency
This post is an in-depth look at the various techniques that applications needing low latency and high availability can leverage while using a geo-distributed SQL database like YugabyteDB so that the … Read More >
2019 Distributed SQL Summit Recap and Highlights
Well, that’s a wrap! Yugabyte would like to extend a special thanks to JD and Amanda from the Postgreconf.org team, and to all the speakers from Facebook, Google, Amazon, Pivotal, Salesforce, Narvar… Read More >
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 YugaByte DB for correctness under extreme and unorthodox conditions. Obviously, simulating all manner of network … Read More >
6 Technical Challenges Developing a Distributed SQL Database
You can join the discussion on HackerNews here. We crossed the three year mark of developing YugabyteDB in February of 2019. It has been a thrilling journey thus far, but not without its fair share o… Read More >
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 distribut… Read More >
Distributed PostgreSQL on a Google Spanner Architecture – Storage Layer
In this post, we'll dive into the architecture of the distributed storage layer of YugabyteDB, which is inspired by Google Spanner's design. Our subsequent post covers the Query Layer, where the stora… Read More >
Rise of Globally Distributed SQL Databases – Redefining Transactional Stores for Cloud Native Era
At last month’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Seattle, the single biggest change from previous container-related conferences was the excitement among the end user companies around their adoption of Ku… Read More >
