How to Integrate Yugabyte CDC Connector with Redpanda
In this blog post we will walk through, in five easy steps, how to integrate YugabyteDB Change Data Capture with Redpanda and why Redpanda might be a better solution than Kafka.
May 17, 2023
The Distributed SQL Blog
May 15, 2023
Generate Random Text Strings in PostgreSQL
The Orafce extension for PostgreSQL can be used to quickly and easily generate random strings to fill in a text column. Let’s look at an example on how to use Orafce, on either your PostgreSQL database or on a PostgreSQL-compatible database, like YugabyteDB.
May 12, 2023
When Using YugabyteDB, How Many Shards Should I Break My Table Into?
Setting the number of shards/tablets in your YugabyteDB cluster is dependent on your table size and activity, and while it is hard to gauge the exact number, here are some high-level suggestions.
May 10, 2023
Geo-Distribution in YugabyteDB: Engineering Around the Physics of Latency
This blog examines the geo-distributed deployment topologies offered with YugabyteDB that can future-proof your data infrastructure and support your app’s needs.
May 9, 2023
Database Version Control with Flyway for YugabyteDB xCluster Setup
Source code versioning is important, but what about data? This blog covers how to use Flyway in conjunction with YugabyteDB xCluster replication to manage data version control across multiple data centers.
May 5, 2023
Is there a tool for visualizing the data stored in my YugabyteDB cluster, or is anything built in YugabyteDB itself?
YugabyteDB’s compatibility with Postgres and Cassandra allows seamless integration with popular third-party tools and integrations, such as visualization tools like pgAdmin, DBeaver, and ArcType, as well as Kafka, Spark, Flyway, and drivers and ORMS, due to the decision to reuse the Postgres query layer (YSQL) and recreate Cassandra using C++ (YCQL).
May 3, 2023
Seven Multi-Region Deployment Best Practices
Despite advancements in public clouds, region and zone outages still occur once or twice a year. This blog offers best practices to improve performance and reduce latencies in a multi-region deployment.
May 2, 2023
Analyze YugabyteDB Change Data Capture Data with Azure Synapse Analytics
This blog provides steps to easily stream CDC data from YugabyteDB Anywhere to Azure Synapse Analytics workspace with the help of Azure offerings such as Event Hubs and Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2.
May 1, 2023
Introducing Customer Managed Key Encryption for Data at Rest in YugabyteDB Managed
Introducing CMK encryption for YugabyteDB Managed clusters to more easily manage data security. Encrypt data at rest with keys you manage for added protection. Simple to enable via our user-friendly interface, CLI, or API.
April 28, 2023
Does RocksDB scaling limitation have an impact on YugabyteDB?
YugabyteDB’s implementation of DocDB, based on RocksDB, has made significant improvements to ensure node density and scalability, allowing hundreds of tablets per tserver without limiting the amount of data per node.