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YugabyteDB Engineering Update – Dec 9, 2019

December 9, 2019

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YugabyteDB Engineering Update – Dec 9, 2019

We are pleased to announce that YugabyteDB 2.0.7 is live! You can read the official release notes of this and previous versions here. This release is shipping with almost 30 new enhancements and bug 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

YugabyteDB 2.0.7 Release Notes

YSQL

Transparent read restarts for general queries.

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Announcing YugabyteDB 2.0 GA: Jepsen Tested, High-Performance Distributed SQL

September 17, 2019

By Kannan Muthukkaruppan

Release Announcements

Announcing YugabyteDB 2.0 GA: Jepsen Tested, High-Performance Distributed SQL

YugabyteDB 2.0 is now available! This release features the production-ready Yugabyte SQL (YSQL) API. Discover new updates, including performance benchmarks, Jepsen test results, and a sneak peek at upcoming Beta features.

Best Practices and Recommendations for Distributed SQL on Kubernetes

September 11, 2019

By Andrew Nelson

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Best Practices and Recommendations for Distributed SQL on Kubernetes

YugabyteDB and Kubernetes have very complementary design principles because they both rely on an extensible and flexible API layer, as well as a scale-out architecture for performance and availability. In this blog post we’ll look at best practices and recommendations when choosing Kubernetes as the cluster foundation for a distributed SQL system. This will begin with a review of relevant architectural decisions of the YugabyteDB. Then we’ll walk you through how to handle the provisioning,

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How-to: The Northwind PostgreSQL Sample Database Running on a Distributed SQL Database

July 17, 2019

By Jimmy Guerrero

Distributed SQL How To PostgreSQL

How-to: The Northwind PostgreSQL Sample Database Running on a Distributed SQL Database

Walk you through how to download and install the PostgreSQL-compatible version of Northwind on the YugabyteDB distributed SQL database.

Why We Changed YugabyteDB Licensing to 100% Open Source

July 16, 2019

By Karthik Ranganathan

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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

By Sid Choudhury

Community News Company News Distributed SQL Open Source YugabyteDB

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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Announcing YugabyteDB 1.2 and Company Update

March 13, 2019

By Kannan Muthukkaruppan

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Announcing YugabyteDB 1.2 and Company Update

The team at YugaByte is excited to announce that YugabyteDB 1.2 is officially GA! You can download the latest version from our Quick Start page.

New in 1.2: YugaByte SQL Beta 3

YugaByte SQL (YSQL) is our PostgreSQL v11 compatible, distributed SQL API. It is ideal for powering microservices that require low latency, internet scale, geographic data distribution and extreme resilience to failures but want the data modeling flexibility of SQL (joins,

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