YugabyteDB Engineering Update – May 29, 2019
YugabyteDB 1.2.9 is now available for download, featuring over 20 new updates, enhancements, and bug fixes. Check out the highlights in the release notes.
May 29, 2019
Distributed SQL
May 15, 2019
Achieving Fast Failovers After Network Partitions in a Distributed SQL Database
In February of this year, Kyle Kingsbury of Jepsen.io was conducting formal testing of YugabyteDB for correctness under extreme and unorthodox conditions. Obviously, simulating all manner of network partitions is part of his testing methodology. As a result, during his testing he spotted the fact that although nodes would reliably come back after a failure, the recovery itself was taking roughly 25 seconds to occur. We certainly didn’t like the sound of that!
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May 13, 2019
YugabyteDB 2.0: A Distributed SQL Roadmap
The YugabyteDB community is eagerly looking forward to v2.0, the next major release expected in Summer 2019. Needless to say, we are very excited about the depth and breadth of features in this release. Here’s an overview of the various areas we expect the new release to cover.
Distributed SQL
YSQL is YugabyteDB’s PostgreSQL wire-compatible distributed SQL API. Thanks to our design decision to use the existing PostgreSQL query layer as a starting point,
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July 23, 2018
Implementing Distributed Transactions the Google Way: Percolator vs. Spanner
In this blog, we dive deeper into Percolator and Spanner as well as the open source databases (YugabyteDB for example) that they have inspired