In this blog post, we will discuss how to maintain transactional read guarantees on an async standby configured through cross cluster replication. This feature has bearing on any user who runs a transactional application in a distributed setup. We think that may apply to many people reading this blog.
At YugaByte, our mission is to build a robust, reliable, distributed OLTP database. Needless to say, we take correctness and technical accuracy of our claims very seriously. Therefore, we absolutely love a testing framework like Jepsen which helps verify correctness and are fans of Kyle Kingsbury’s work!
Here is a summary of what we have done so far in regards to Jepsen:
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Although MongoDB has made significant improvements in its sharding and replication architecture since its origins as an Available and Partition-tolerant (AP) database, it still has limitations that make it unsuitable for highly scalable and latency-sensitive applications. In this blog post, the authors explore the reasons why some users have chosen to switch from MongoDB to YugabyteDB, citing distributed ACID transactions and better scalability as key factors.