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Distributed SQL on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with YugabyteDB’s Helm Chart

April 10, 2019

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Distributed SQL on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with YugabyteDB’s Helm Chart

The glory days of the heavy-weight hypervisor are slowly fading away, and in the last few years, containerization of applications and services is the new reality. With containerization, enterprises can prototype, deploy, and meet scale demands more quickly. To systematically and efficiently manage these large-scale deployments, enterprises have bet on technologies like Kubernetes (aka k8s), a powerful container orchestrator, to get the job done. Kubernetes was originally developed by Google, but it has been open sourced since 2014 and is today developed by a large community of contributors.

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How to Achieve High Availability, Low Latency and GDPR Compliance in a Distributed SQL Database

April 3, 2019

By Sid Choudhury

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How to Achieve High Availability, Low Latency and GDPR Compliance in a Distributed SQL Database

YugabyteDB is purpose built for geo-distributed applications that require high availability, high performance and regulatory compliance. In this blog, we are going to “look under the hood,” to explore exactly how YugabyteDB distributes data across multiple clouds, regions and availability zones.

March 26, 2019

By Karthik Ranganathan

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YugabyteDB 1.2 Passes Jepsen Testing

You can join the discussion about the results on HackerNews here.

Last year we published our DIY Jepsen testing results – including the tests and failure modes implemented as well as the bugs found. We recently engaged Kyle Kingsbury, the creator of the Jepsen test suite, for an official analysis and are happy to report that YugabyteDB 1.2 formally passes Jepsen tests using the YCQL API.

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Distributed PostgreSQL on a Google Spanner Architecture – Query Layer

March 18, 2019

By Karthik Ranganathan

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Distributed PostgreSQL on a Google Spanner Architecture – Query Layer

Our previous post dived into the details of the storage layer of YugabyteDB called DocDB, a distributed document store inspired by Google Spanner. This post focuses on Yugabyte SQL (YSQL), a distributed, highly resilient, PostgreSQL-compatible SQL API layer powered by DocDB. A follow-up post will highlight the challenges faced and lessons learned when engineering such a database.

YSQL, Distributed PostgreSQL Made Real

Yugabyte SQL (YSQL) is a distributed and highly resilient SQL layer,

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Distributed PostgreSQL on a Google Spanner Architecture – Storage Layer

March 18, 2019

By Karthik Ranganathan

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Distributed PostgreSQL on a Google Spanner Architecture – Storage Layer

In this post, we dive into the architecture of the distributed storage layer of YugabyteDB, which is inspired by Google Spanner’s design

Announcing YugabyteDB 1.2 and Company Update

March 13, 2019

By Kannan Muthukkaruppan

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Announcing YugabyteDB 1.2 and Company Update

The team at YugaByte is excited to announce that YugabyteDB 1.2 is officially GA! You can download the latest version from our Quick Start page.

New in 1.2: YugaByte SQL Beta 3

YugaByte SQL (YSQL) is our PostgreSQL v11 compatible, distributed SQL API. It is ideal for powering microservices that require low latency, internet scale, geographic data distribution and extreme resilience to failures but want the data modeling flexibility of SQL (joins,

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YugabyteDB High Availability and Transactions for PostgreSQL and MongoDB Developers

March 5, 2019

By Sid Choudhury

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YugabyteDB High Availability and Transactions for PostgreSQL and MongoDB Developers

In this post, we comparethe high availability and transactions architecture of PostgreSQL and MongoDB to that of YugabyteDB.

Navigating Database Concepts: Mapping YugabyteDB to PostgreSQL and MongoDB

February 28, 2019

By Sid Choudhury

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Navigating Database Concepts: Mapping YugabyteDB to PostgreSQL and MongoDB

In this post, we reviewed the building blocks of the YugabyteDB and mapped them to the corresponding concepts (if any) in PostgreSQL and MongoDB.

February 20, 2019

By Mikhail Bautin and Kannan Muthukkaruppan

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Enhancing RocksDB for Speed & Scale

As described in our previous post “How We Built a High Performance Document Store on RocksDB?”, YugabyteDB’s distributed document store (DocDB) uses RocksDB as its per-node storage engine. We made multiple performance and data density related enhancements to RocksDB in the course of embedding it into DocDB’s document storage layer (figure below). These enhancements are distributed as part of the YugabyteDB open source project. The goal of this post is to deep dive into these enhancements for the benefit of engineering teams interested in leveraging RocksDB beyond its original design intent of a fast monolithic key-value store.

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February 20, 2019

By Mikhail Bautin

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How We Built a High Performance Document Store on RocksDB?

This blog post was co-authored by Mikhail Bautin and Kannan Muthukkaruppan

RocksDB is a popular embeddable persistent key-value store. First open sourced by Facebook in 2012 as a fork of the Google LevelDB project, it has been adapted over the years to a wide range of workloads including database storage engines and application data caching.

In this post, we explain our rationale for selecting RocksDB as a foundational building block for YugabyteDB.

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YSQL, Distributed PostgreSQL Made Real

New in 1.2: YugaByte SQL Beta 3

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