How-to: The Northwind PostgreSQL Sample Database Running on a Distributed SQL Database
Walk you through how to download and install the PostgreSQL-compatible version of Northwind on the YugabyteDB distributed SQL database.
July 17, 2019
Distributed SQL
July 16, 2019
Why We Changed YugabyteDB Licensing to 100% Open Source
We are excited to announce that YugabyteDB is now 100% open source under the Apache 2.0 license. This means previously closed-source, commercial, enterprise features such as Distributed Backups, Data Encryption, and Read Replicas are now available in the open source project and are completely free to use. The same applies to upcoming new features like Change Data Capture and 2 Data Center Deployments. The result of this change is that we no longer have a Community Edition and an Enterprise Edition of YugabyteDB.
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July 16, 2019
Announcing YugabyteDB 1.3 with Enterprise Features as Open Source
We are very excited to announce the arrival of YugabyteDB 1.3. This post will outline some of the major milestones in this release.
Enterprise Features Move To Open Source
In this release, all the enterprise features in the core DB are now available in open source under the Apache 2.0 license! Effective v1.3, there is no more EE vs CE distinction, there is just one database with all the features you want.
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May 29, 2019
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 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