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March 14, 2023

Prioritizing Security, Stability, and Client Satisfaction: Insight from Fiserv’s VP and Fellow Architect

Dimitri Farafonov, VP and Fellow Architect at Fiserv, recently sat down to discuss his role at this top global fintech and payments company. During the conversation, he discussed the priorities that guide Fiserv’s database selection process, along with the complexities involved in working to achieve low latency, data consistency, and massive bi-directional scalability, which are critical to Fiserv’s operations.

Top Database Trends and Predictions to Look Out For in 2023

November 23, 2022

By Karthik Ranganathan

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Top Database Trends and Predictions to Look Out For in 2023

As 2022 comes to an end, organizations will continue to shift their focus from using monolithic solutions to distributed SQL databases that better align with their cloud native architectures. And that is not the only shakeup we expect to see in the new year!

Check out our top 2023 database predictions based on trends we already see taking shape.

Retail Application Migration: Lessons Learned Moving from On-Prem to Cloud Native

April 14, 2022

By Denis Magda

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Retail Application Migration: Lessons Learned Moving from On-Prem to Cloud Native

Recently, I came across a sample e-commerce application that demonstrates how to use Next.js, GraphQL engine, PostgreSQL, and a few other frameworks to build a modern web application. The application supports basic e-commerce capabilities such as product inventory and order management, recommendation system, and checkout function. This made me curious as to how much effort it would take to complete a retail application migration from an on-premise to cloud native solution. So I decided to try.

Distributed SQL Deep Dive: Inside YugabyteDB’s Two-Layer Architecture

March 10, 2022

By Franck Pachot

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Distributed SQL Deep Dive: Inside YugabyteDB’s Two-Layer Architecture

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.

In this blog post,

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How Abra Controls Transforms Energy Companies with YugabyteDB Managed

December 20, 2021

By Suda Srinivasan

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How Abra Controls Transforms Energy Companies with YugabyteDB Managed

In this blog post, we’ll explore why Abra Controls needed a new database. We’ll detail why it chose YugabyteDB. We’ll then discuss how the company used YugabyteDB Managed to implement its IoT application.

The Most PostgreSQL-Compatible Distributed SQL Database is YugabyteDB

November 23, 2021

By Yogesh Mahajan

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The Most PostgreSQL-Compatible Distributed SQL Database is YugabyteDB

Yugabyte has released YugabyteDB 2.11, extending the open-source distributed SQL database’s PostgreSQL compatibility with the addition of widely used PostgreSQL features, including collation support, follower reads, and Foreign Data Wrappers (FDW). With this release, YugabyteDB further establishes itself as the most PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL database in the world.

Is Your Distributed Database PostgreSQL Compatible, and Why Does This Matter?

November 22, 2021

By Suda Srinivasan

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Is Your Distributed Database PostgreSQL Compatible, and Why Does This Matter?

Learn how PostgreSQL compatibility can impact your applications and discover the essential criteria for evaluating SQL databases in this informative on-demand webinar featuring Yugabyte’s CTO and Co-Founder Karthik Ranganathan.

Using the PostgreSQL Recursive CTE – Part Two

March 1, 2021

By Bryn Llewellyn

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Using the PostgreSQL Recursive CTE – Part Two

Computing Bacon Numbers for actors listed in the IMDb

YugabyteDB is an open source, high-performance distributed SQL database built on a scalable and fault-tolerant design inspired by Google Spanner. YugabyteDB uses its own special distributed document store called DocDB. But it provides SQL and stored procedure functionality by re-using the “upper half” of the standard PostgreSQL source code. This is explained in the two part blog post “Distributed PostgreSQL on a Google Spanner Architecture”: (1) Storage Layer;

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Using the PostgreSQL Recursive CTE – Part One

March 1, 2021

By Bryn Llewellyn

Databases Distributed SQL How To PostgreSQL

Using the PostgreSQL Recursive CTE – Part One

Traversing an employee hierarchy

YugabyteDB is an open source, high-performance distributed SQL database built on a scalable and fault-tolerant design inspired by Google Spanner. YugabyteDB uses its own special distributed document store called DocDB. But it provides SQL and stored procedure functionality by re-using the “upper half” of the standard PostgreSQL source code. This is explained in the two part blog post “Distributed PostgreSQL on a Google Spanner Architecture”: (1) Storage Layer;

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YugabyteDB: Reimagining the RDBMS for the Cloud

February 25, 2021

By Karthik Ranganathan

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YugabyteDB: Reimagining the RDBMS for the Cloud

Perspectives from 5 years of building a cloud native database

YugabyteDB just turned 5 years old, and I cannot help but reminisce about our journey in building this database over the last half-decade. I vividly remember the genesis of the YugabyteDB project, which started with Kannan, Mikhail, and myself meeting for lunch at a restaurant to discuss the future of cloud native databases. After iterating on the idea over a number of such discussions,

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