The cloud revolution, initially promising for application scaling, falls short in database scalability, facing challenges with concurrent user management and processing. To truly harness cloud benefits and meet peak demands, organizations must consider horizontally scalable, cloud-native databases over traditional, monolithic SQL systems.
Peak events like record-breaking concerts and Black Friday sales, along with unpredictable freak events such as adverse weather and cloud outages, are pushing legacy database technology’s limits in scalability and resilience.
YugabyteDB 2.20 revolutionizes cloud-native applications with its advanced change data capture, ensuring transactional consistency for a broader range of use cases. This latest release also introduces significant enhancements like OIDC-based authentication and online point-in-time recovery, reinforcing database resilience and performance.
This blog highlights six moments that will increase the risk of an ecommerce website crash. Using examples, it illustrates the short- and long-term financial and reputational impact of such crashes, showing how by modernizing the data layer retailers can ensure site resilience, scalability, and consistent high performance and safeguard their share of the growing eCommerce market.
Learn how YugabyteDB handles node loss and recovery to ensure consistent, continuous availability. With features like a 3-second leader re-election process and a robust fallback mechanism, your cluster can tolerate disruptions and resume optimal operation efficiently.
PostgreSQL offers robust features but has certain limitations in scalability, replication, resilience (and more). YugabyteDB addresses these issues through distributed design, storage efficiency, and transaction handling, providing a comprehensive solution when high availability, ACID, and scale are mandatory.
Learn how YugabyteDB ensures stability when a downed node rejoins the cluster. Our latest blog covers the essential 15-minute RAFT timeout and the built-in fault tolerance mechanisms that keep your data secure and accessible.
During a massive Texas snowstorm, a power failure affected millions of homes, businesses, and even one of our largest retail customer’s data centers. Despite the widespread chaos, they managed to maintain application availability thanks to YugabyteDB’s geo-distributed cluster, a solution we’ll explore in this blog post.
Enterprises deploy YugabyteDB clusters across multiple availability zones (AZs) in order to ensure continuous availability of their business-critical services even when faced with cloud infrastructure failures like zone outages. On November 12, 2019, there was one such outage of an entire availability zone in the eu-central-1 region of AWS. This was reported on the AWS status page on that day, along with an official update.
In this post, we are going to look at how a Yugabyte customer,
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