Let’s take a look at the evolution of transactions in Apache Cassandra especially in the context of Quorum Reads/Writes, Lightweight Transactions and Secondary Indexes.
Prof. Daniel Abadi, lead inventor of the Calvin transaction management protocol and the PACELC theorem, wrote a thought-provoking post last month titled “NewSQL database systems are failing to guarantee consistency, and I blame Spanner”. The post takes a negative view of software-only Google Spanner derivative databases such as YugabyteDB and CockroachDB that use Spanner-like partitioned consensus for single shard transactions and a two phase commit (2PC) protocol for multi-shard (aka distributed) ACID transactions.
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Welcome to another post in our ongoing series that highlights new features from the latest 1.1 release announced last week. Today we are going to look at the importance of public IP addresses and hostnames in simplifying multi-cloud and hybrid cloud deployments.
In modern cloud deployments, servers often have a combination of private IP addresses (used in the private LAN and often the IP address of the network interface on the server),
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Welcome to another post in our ongoing series that highlights new features from the latest 1.1 release announced last week. Today we are going to look at document data modeling using the native JSON data type available in YugabyteDB’s Cassandra compatible YCQL API. Note that this data type is specific to YugabyteDB and is not part of the standard Cassandra Query Language (CQL).
With YugabyteDB’s native JSON support,
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Welcome to another post from our ongoing series where we highlight a new feature from the latest 1.1 release! Today we are going to look at secondary indexes.
A database index is a data structure that improves the speed of data retrieval operations on a database table. Typically, databases are very efficient at looking up data by the primary key. A secondary index can be created using one or more columns of a database table,
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We announced the general availability of YugabyteDB 1.1 earlier this week. This post gives you a deep dive into the various features of YugabyteDB 1.1.
The team at YugaByte is excited to announce that YugabyteDB 1.1 is officially GA! You can download the latest version from our Quick Start page. New in this release:
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In case you missed the announcement, Ravi Murthy has joined YugaByte as our VP of Engineering. Read on to learn more about his experiences leading the teams who managed the explosive growth of applications and data at Facebook, plus what’s next at YugaByte!
After almost 7 years at Facebook, I am super-excited to start in my new role as YugaByte’s VP of Engineering. This post provides a brief history of my career through the years,
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We have performed our own Jepsen testing on YugabyteDB, and the open-source repository reveals no correctness failures; we’re also working on adding more tests to ensure our database holds true to its promises.
YugabyteDB embraces open source with an Apache 2.0 license and self-governance, focusing on user-driven contributions and sustainable business growth. It aims to balance open source and commercial features, addressing the cloud provider challenge by building high-value, user-loved products.