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YugabyteDB 1.1 New Feature: Speeding Up Queries with Secondary Indexes

September 25, 2018

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YugabyteDB 1.1 New Feature: Speeding Up Queries with Secondary Indexes

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.

Defining 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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September 21, 2018

By Karthik Ranganathan

Performance Benchmarks

Technical Deep Dive into YugabyteDB 1.1

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.

Announcing YugabyteDB 1.1 and Company Update

September 19, 2018

By Kannan Muthukkaruppan

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Announcing YugabyteDB 1.1 and Company Update

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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- Excellent progress on YSQL, our Postgres-compatible Distributed SQL API

- Distributed multi-shard/multi-table ACID transactions!

- Global &

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Ravi Murthy: Starting a New Chapter with YugaByte

September 19, 2018

By Ravi Murthy

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Ravi Murthy: Starting a New Chapter with YugaByte

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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September 17, 2018

By Karthik Ranganathan

Jepsen Tests Performance Benchmarks

Jepsen Testing on YugabyteDB

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.

Building a High Growth Business by Monetizing Open Source Software

September 10, 2018

By Sid Choudhury

Open Source

Building a High Growth Business by Monetizing Open Source Software

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.

August 20, 2018

By Karthik Ranganathan

Community News Release Announcements

Yugabyte Database Engineering Update – August 20, 2018

Time for another update from the engineering team for the YugabyteDB database! Let’s dive in and see all the progress we’ve made.

Understanding How YugabyteDB Runs on Kubernetes

August 17, 2018

By Sid Choudhury

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Understanding How YugabyteDB Runs on Kubernetes

As we reviewed in “Docker, Kubernetes and the Rise of Cloud Native Databases”, Kubernetes has benefited from rapid adoption to become the de-facto choice for container orchestration. This has happened in a short span of only 4 years since Google open sourced the project in 2014. YugabyteDB’s automated sharding and strongly consistent replication architecture lends itself extremely well to containerized deployments powered by Kubernetes orchestration. In this post we’ll look at the various components involved in getting YugabyteDB up and running as Kubernetes StatefulSets.

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Benchmarking an 18 Terabyte YugabyteDB Cluster with High Density Data Nodes

August 14, 2018

By Kannan Muthukkaruppan

Performance Benchmarks

Benchmarking an 18 Terabyte YugabyteDB Cluster with High Density Data Nodes

For ever-growing data workloads such as time series metrics and IoT sensor events, running a highly dense database cluster where each node stores terabytes of data makes perfect sense from a cost efficiency standpoint. If we are spinning up new data nodes only to get more storage-per-node, then there is a significant wastage of expensive compute resources. However, running multi-terabyte data nodes with Apache Cassandra as well as other Cassandra-compatible databases (such as DataStax Enterprise) is not an option.

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Apache Cassandra DB Architecture Fundamentals

August 9, 2018

By Jimmy Guerrero

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Apache Cassandra DB Architecture Fundamentals

What is the Apache Cassandra Database?

Apache Cassandra is a distributed open source database that can be referred to as a “NoSQL database” or a “wide column store.” Cassandra was originally developed at Facebook to power its “Inbox” feature and was released as an open source project in 2008. Cassandra is designed to handle “big data” workloads by distributing data, reads and writes (eventually) across multiple nodes with no single point of failure.

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