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November 23, 2021

The Most PostgreSQL-Compatible Distributed SQL Database is YugabyteDB

This morning we announced the general availability of YugabyteDB 2.11, a major release which extends PostgreSQL compatibility of the open source distributed SQL database! These updates allow application developers to use powerful and familiar PostgreSQL features without compromising resilience, scale, or performance.

One of the biggest roadblocks to database adoption is a lack of familiarity. Developers love PostgreSQL and want to work with the familiar API in order to be productive.

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Distributed SQL: Sharding and Partitioning in YugabyteDB

November 19, 2021

By Franck Pachot

Databases Distributed SQL

Distributed SQL: Sharding and Partitioning in YugabyteDB

A distributed SQL database provides a service where you can query the global database without knowing where the rows are. You connect to any node, without having to know the cluster topology. You query your tables, and the database will determine the best access to your data, whether it’s close to your client or geographically distant.

The organization of data, whether co-located or partitioned, is the most important consideration for high performance,

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Alerts and Notifications in Yugabyte Platform

November 18, 2021

By Yogesh Mahajan

Community News Company News Databases Distributed SQL Release Announcements

Alerts and Notifications in Yugabyte Platform

Operational visibility is key to understanding distributed SQL databases across dimensions of uptime, performance, and capacity planning. Keeping tabs on uptime is crucial for running clusters in production. You need to ensure you have the right process and alerting system in place to allow for fast action, as illustrated in the below diagram.

Yugabyte Platform offers a dedicated observability and monitoring view, which serves as a single pane of glass for the customer’s performance metrics across all clouds.

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Yugabyte Platform API: Securely Deploying YugabyteDB Clusters Using Infrastructure-as-Code

November 17, 2021

By Yogesh Mahajan

Community News Company News Databases Distributed SQL Release Announcements

Yugabyte Platform API: Securely Deploying YugabyteDB Clusters Using Infrastructure-as-Code

The Yugabyte Platform console orchestrates and manages YugabyteDB clusters in one or more regions across public cloud and private, on-prem data centers. Yugabyte Platform console is a powerful interface with an immense amount of automation to set up your databases across all major cloud providers around the globe. Through the UI, you can easily deploy a fully scalable global cluster across several regions and even across different cloud providers in a matter of minutes. The UI is super intuitive and great,

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November 16, 2021

By Yogesh Mahajan

Community News Company News Databases Distributed SQL Release Announcements

Announcing YugabyteDB 2.8

Yugabyte is on a mission to build the default database for cloud native applications and simplify operational data infrastructure. Our latest stable release — YugabyteDB 2.8 — is a big step towards that goal. YugabyteDB 2.8 includes significant enhancements to the open source database and our self-managed DBaaS offering, Yugabyte Platform. While we add more and more features on the Distributed SQL side, we are committed to making Yugabyte Platform easy for our users to use in their production cloud environments.

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How My Yugabyte Internship Changed Me For the Better

November 10, 2021

By Harshitha Vontela

Careers

How My Yugabyte Internship Changed Me For the Better

Hello! My name is Harshitha, and I’ve been interning at Yugabyte as a software developer since July 2021. The last four months have transformed me from a confused and cynical college student to a curious and optimistic technology enthusiast and developer. It has been a continuous and exponential metamorphosis driven by the people and carefully curated—although seemingly effortless—culture at Yugabyte. In this post, I’d like to talk about my experience working here and the positive influence this company has had on my future.

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Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – November 2nd, 2021

November 2, 2021

By Marko Rajcevic

Distributed SQL YugabyteDB

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

October 29, 2021

By Karthik Ranganathan

Databases

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

October 28, 2021

By Bill Cook

Community News Company News Databases Distributed SQL

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

October 27, 2021

By Dillon Pinto

Distributed SQL

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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