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PostgreSQL How To: Installing the Chinook Sample DB on a Distributed SQL Database
July 30, 2019
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PostgreSQL How To: Installing the Chinook Sample DB on a Distributed SQL Database

In this post we are going to walk you through how to download and install the PostgreSQL version of the Chinook sample DB on the YugabyteDB distributed SQL database with a replication factor of 3.

What’s YugabyteDB? It’s a high performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale apps. YugabyteDB is a PostgreSQL-compatible database. Similar to Google Spanner, YugabyteDB gives you all the scalability characteristics of NoSQL, without sacrificing the ACID transactions or strong consistency you are accustomed to with PostgreSQL.

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YugabyteDB Engineering & Community Update – July 19, 2019
July 19, 2019
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YugabyteDB Engineering & Community Update – July 19, 2019

We are pleased to announce that YugabyteDB 1.3.0 is live! You can read the release notes of this and previous versions here. This release is shipping with 24 new features, enhancements and bug fixes. Beyond enhancements and fixes, the other big news is that we have open sourced the entire core database code! This means that previously closed features like distributed backups, data encryption and replicas are now open sourced. This also means that upcoming features like change data capture and 2 datacenter deployments will open source as well.

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Why We Changed YugabyteDB Licensing to 100% Open Source
July 16, 2019
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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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Announcing YugabyteDB 1.3 with Enterprise Features as Open Source
July 16, 2019
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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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Achieving Fast Failovers After Network Partitions in a Distributed SQL Database
May 15, 2019
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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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YugabyteDB 2.0: A Distributed SQL Roadmap
May 13, 2019
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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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