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Are Stored Procedures and Triggers Anti-Patterns in the Cloud Native World?

Are Stored Procedures and Triggers Anti-Patterns in the Cloud Native World?

The last decade has seen a rise in usage of distributed SQL databases for transactional, cloud native applications. Popular options include Amazon Aurora, Google Spanner, YugabyteDB, and CockroachDB. All of these databases are resilient to failures and achieve high availability. However, they vary dramatically in the set of relational database management system (RDBMS) features they support.

Google Spanner and CockroachDB have chosen to rewrite the SQL engine from scratch. As a result, they do not implement many of the advanced features supported by a traditional RDBMS.

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Yugabyte Raises $188 Million Series C to Make Distributed SQL Ubiquitous

Yugabyte Raises $188 Million Series C to Make Distributed SQL Ubiquitous

We are excited to announce that Yugabyte has closed $188 million in oversubscribed Series C funding. Sapphire Ventures led the round with participation from Alkeon Capital, Meritech Capital, and Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, as well as existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, 8VC, Dell Technologies Capital, Wipro Ventures, and others. This round comes seven months after our previous round in March 2021,

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Distributed SQL Summit 2021: Rajkumar Sen on Fulfilling the Data Modernization Dream

Distributed SQL Summit 2021: Rajkumar Sen on Fulfilling the Data Modernization Dream

It’s critical for enterprises to modernize and democratize their database to drive digital transformation. Being stuck with legacy infrastructure only causes massive problems downstream, such as an inability to scale due to high costs, fragility, and vendor lock-in. It also creates a burden to add more infrastructure to scale with a requirement to be always-on, lowering developer productivity.

Distributed SQL databases solve this problem for enterprises by providing lower TCO, multi-location geo-distribution, self-healing capabilities,

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How to Build Applications with YugabyteDB and Apache Spark

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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How a Distributed SQL Database Boosts Secondary Index Queries with Index Only Scan

How a Distributed SQL Database Boosts Secondary Index Queries with Index Only Scan

A distributed SQL database reads from remote nodes, which increases the need for optimal data access. From my 20 years of experience as a database consultant, here is the most overlooked optimization technique for any database that supports it: performance-critical queries should find their columns from the index structure, without making extra hops to the table.

Many myths against SQL, such as “joins don’t scale” or “analytic queries need a separate column store”,

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Distributed SQL Arrives at Turkey’s Largest E-Commerce Platform

Distributed SQL Arrives at Turkey’s Largest E-Commerce Platform

At the Distributed SQL Summit 2021, Hüseyin Demir, Senior Database Platform Engineer at Trendyol, talked about the business and technology needs that drove the company to look for a new relational database management system (RDBMS). The talk covered the detailed performance and technology evaluation conducted by Trendyol, and explained why YugabyteDB—an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native applications—was the optimal choice to power its business.

Trendyol: Turkey’s e-commerce leader

Trendyol is Turkey’s largest e-commerce platform.

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YugabyteDB Open Source Community Spotlight – October 2021

YugabyteDB Open Source Community Spotlight – October 2021

The Yugabyte community is always active and its members are constantly having interesting conversations and making valuable contributions. We spotlight members of the community to recognize their contributions to making the Yugabyte community a great place.

Warren Wilfred L. Cruz, Data Solutions Architect @ EXIST Software Labs, Inc.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/wawicruz and LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/warrencruzpostgrex

If you’re on the Yugabyte community Slack,

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Distributed SQL Change Management Using Liquibase-YugabyteDB  Extension

Distributed SQL Change Management Using Liquibase-YugabyteDB Extension

Liquibase is an open source and extensible change management project that supports a variety of databases including Snowflake, MySQL, and PostgreSQL via JDBC. Liquibase allows users to easily define changes in SQL, XML, JSON, and YAML. These changes are then managed in a version control system so the changes can be documented, ordered, and standardized. For more information on the features and benefits of Liquibase, check out their documentation site.

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Connecting a Spring Boot Application to YugabyteDB Managed and Deploying It to Kubernetes on minikube

Connecting a Spring Boot Application to YugabyteDB Managed and Deploying It to Kubernetes on minikube

Spring Boot is one of the most popular frameworks for building cloud native applications. It makes configuring an application easy and offers tons of starters to get you off the ground quickly. Each Spring Boot application is stand-alone and self-contained, which makes them easy to deploy in a distributed fashion – to containers or, even better, on Kubernetes.

YugabyteDB Managed (formerly Yugabyte Cloud) is Yugabyte’s DB-as-a-service and is a perfect match for Spring Boot applications,

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