Distributed SQL

YugabyteDB 2.1 is GA: Scaling New Heights with Distributed SQL
February 25, 2020
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YugabyteDB 2.1 is GA: Scaling New Heights with Distributed SQL

Team Yugabyte is excited to announce the general availability of YugabyteDB 2.1! The highlight of this release is that Yugabyte SQL (YSQL), YugabyteDB’s PostgreSQL-compatible API, has not only improved performance 10x since the 2.0 release in September 2019 but is also production ready for multiple geo-distributed deployment scenarios. For those of you who are new to distributed SQL, YugabyteDB is a Google Spanner-inspired, cloud native distributed SQL database that is 100% open source.

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Achieving 10x Better Distributed SQL Performance in YugabyteDB 2.1
February 25, 2020
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Achieving 10x Better Distributed SQL Performance in YugabyteDB 2.1

When starting the YugabyteDB project, our founding thesis was to build a high-performance distributed SQL database for the cloud native era. Achieving high performance will always remain an ongoing initiative, especially when additional optimizations are required to support new features and new use cases. We are excited that the current YugabyteDB 2.1 release has a number of improvements that make Yugabyte SQL’s performance 10x better on average than the previous 2.0 release (from September 2019).

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Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – Feb 21, 2020
February 21, 2020
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Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – Feb 21, 2020

Welcome to this week’s tips and tricks blog where we recap some distributed SQL questions from around the Internet. We’ll also review upcoming events, new documentation, and blogs that have been published since the last post. Got questions? Make sure to ask them on our YugabyteDB Slack channel, Forum, GitHub, or Stackoverflow. Ok, let’s dive right in:

When should I use JSON vs JSONB data types?

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Natural versus Surrogate Primary Keys in a Distributed SQL Database
February 18, 2020
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Natural versus Surrogate Primary Keys in a Distributed SQL Database

There’s a subtle, but critical, difference between the two notions business-unique key and primary key in a relational database. For example, in a “users” table, the “user_id” could be the primary key while the “email_address” (which must be not null and unique) could be the business-unique key. The columns that implement each notion may or may not coincide. This post shows that,

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Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – Feb 14, 2020
February 14, 2020
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Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – Feb 14, 2020

Welcome to this week’s tips and tricks blog where we recap some distributed SQL questions from around the Internet. We’ll also review upcoming events, new documentation and blogs that have been published since the last post. Got questions? Make sure to ask them on our YugabyteDB Slack channel, Forum, GitHub or Stackoverflow. Ok, let’s dive right in:

How can I get the JSON output of distinct columns?

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Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – Feb 7, 2020
February 7, 2020
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Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – Feb 7, 2020

Welcome to this week’s tips and tricks blog where we recap some distributed SQL questions from around the Internet. We’ll also review upcoming events, new documentation and blogs that have been published since the last post. Got questions? Make sure to ask them on our YugabyteDB Slack channel, Forum, GitHub or Stackoverflow. Ok, let’s dive right in:

Does YugabyteDB have an in-memory storage engine?

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YugabyteDB Engineering Update – Jan 29, 2020
January 29, 2020
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YugabyteDB Engineering Update – Jan 29, 2020

We are pleased to announce that YugabyteDB 2.0.11 is now live!  You can read the official release notes of this and previous versions here. These two releases shipped with a combined 30+ new enhancements and fixes.

What’s YugabyteDB? It is an open source, high-performance distributed SQL database built on a scalable and fault-tolerant design inspired by Google Spanner. Yugabyte’s SQL API (YSQL) is PostgreSQL wire compatible.

YSQL API

  • Fix txn conflict issues due to absence of cotable ID in DocKey.

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Four Data Sharding Strategies We Analyzed in Building a Distributed SQL Database
January 14, 2020
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Four Data Sharding Strategies We Analyzed in Building a Distributed SQL Database

A distributed SQL database needs to automatically partition the data in a table and distribute it across nodes. This is known as data sharding and it can be achieved through different strategies, each with its own tradeoffs. In this post, we will examine various data sharding strategies for a distributed SQL database, analyze the tradeoffs, explain the rationale for which of these strategies YugabyteDB supports and what we picked as the default sharding strategy.

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