This blog covers the function and implementation compactions, focusing on those details and configurations that are relevant to YugabyteDB. The second half focuses on the behavior and prioritization of background compactions.
YugabyteDB is a 100% open source, distributed SQL database system. This single phrase expresses two distinct notions: a SQL database system, and a distributed database system. Historically, these notions were mutually exclusive. But current technology allows a single system to implement both notions. YugabyteDB does this with its two-layer architecture: an extensible query processing layer and a distributed document store.
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Our previous post dived into the details of the storage layer of YugabyteDB called DocDB, a distributed document store inspired by Google Spanner. This post focuses on Yugabyte SQL (YSQL), a distributed, highly resilient, PostgreSQL-compatible SQL API layer powered by DocDB. A follow-up post will highlight the challenges faced and lessons learned when engineering such a database.
Yugabyte SQL (YSQL) is a distributed and highly resilient SQL layer,
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In this post, we dive into the architecture of the distributed storage layer of YugabyteDB, which is inspired by Google Spanner’s design