Yugabyte Platform

September 1, 2021

Community News Company News Databases Distributed SQL

Announcing Spring Data YugabyteDB

YugabyteDB is the database of choice for building stateful cloud native apps that require resilience and scale. YugabyteDB offers Spring developers an easy way to deploy a transactional, resilient and geo-distributed database in their application stack from the outset, while also providing flexibility and scalability as requirements change. The Spring community has always been a major influence on what we build at Yugabyte. Many of our customers rely on the immensely popular Spring Boot framework to build microservices.

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Announcing YugabyteDB 2.9: Pushing the Boundaries of Relational Databases

August 26, 2021

By Yogesh Mahajan

Release Announcements

Announcing YugabyteDB 2.9: Pushing the Boundaries of Relational Databases

This morning we announced the latest release of the YugabyteDB open source database, YugabyteDB 2.9! This release introduces new capabilities that push the boundaries of relational databases further than ever before. Yugabyte pioneered distributed SQL databases that combine advanced RDBMS capabilities with the resilience, scale, and geo-distribution that cloud native applications demand. Over the years, we have continued to innovate with capabilities such as distributed transactional backups, YSQL tablespaces,

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August 13, 2021

By Sanyam Singhal

How To

Using Sequelize with YugabyteDB

Sequelize is a promise-based Node.js ORM tool that allows us to interact with databases using javascript instead of SQL. In simple terms, Object Relational Mapping is a process for accessing a relational database using object-oriented languages like javascript. For more information on the features in Sequelize, you can check out their documentation site.

Sequelize Node.js package already has support for databases like Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, and Microsoft SQL Server.

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August 4, 2021

By Yogesh Mahajan

Community News Company News Databases Release Announcements

Announcing YugabyteDB 2.6

Yugabyte is on a mission to build the default database for cloud native applications and simplify operational data infrastructure. Our latest release, YugabyteDB 2.6, is a big step forward towards that goal. YugabyteDB 2.6 includes significant enhancements to the open source database and our self-managed DBaaS offering, Yugabyte Platform. These enhancements, including point in time recovery (PITR), default encryption in transit, availability of Yugabyte Platform on Microsoft Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, and VMware Tanzu, and Yugabyte Platform high availability,

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YugabyteDB Open Source Community Spotlight – July 2021

July 29, 2021

By Gavin Johnson

Community News Databases

YugabyteDB Open Source Community Spotlight – July 2021

The Yugabyte community is always active and its members are constantly having interesting conversations and making valuable contributions. We spotlight members of the community to recognize their contributions to making the Yugabyte community a great place.

Radek Gruchalski, Managing Director & Software Engineer @ Klarrio GmbH

GitHub: https://github.com/radekg/, LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/radgruchalski,

Blog: https://gruchalski.com/

If you’re on the Yugabyte community Slack often,

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Connecting to YugabyteDB with Arctype, a Collaborative SQL Client

July 23, 2021

By Franck Pachot

Distributed SQL How To PostgreSQL

Connecting to YugabyteDB with Arctype, a Collaborative SQL Client

YugabyteDB is PostgreSQL compatible. It uses the same protocol and SQL layer as PostgreSQL. This makes YugabyteDB compatible with a majority of database tools, because PostgreSQL is the most popular open source database on the planet. Here is an example with Arctype, a user-friendly collaborative SQL client to query and visualize data.

Setting up a database connection

1. I went to https://arctype.com/ and downloaded the client for Windows.

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Getting Started with the Kafka Connect for YugabyteDB (beta)

July 21, 2021

By Suranjan Kumar

How To Kafka

Getting Started with the Kafka Connect for YugabyteDB (beta)

Kafka Connect is a popular tool for scaling and reliably streaming data between Apache Kafka and other data systems. It ships with a JDBC Sink which is used to insert data from Kafka to a database. Although the default JDBC Sink is good for many popular RDBMS it isn’t optimized for distributed SQL databases that provide linear scalability and high availability like YugabyteDB.

In our earlier blog introducing YugabyteDB 2.7,

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Auto-Balancing Data in YugabyteDB, a Distributed SQL Database

June 29, 2021

By Sanket Kedia

Databases Distributed SQL How To

Auto-Balancing Data in YugabyteDB, a Distributed SQL Database

YugabyteDB is a distributed, fault tolerant and highly available database with extremely low latencies for reads and writes. Data in YugabyteDB is sharded, replicated and balanced across multiple nodes that can potentially be in different availability zones, regions or even clouds for that matter. In this blog post, we look at how data balancing happens in YugabyteDB and some of the key features of YugabyteDB’s “Cluster Balancer.”

The cluster balancer runs once every second.

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What’s New in YugabyteDB Docs – March 2021

March 24, 2021

By Alex Ball

Community News Company News Databases Distributed SQL

What’s New in YugabyteDB Docs – March 2021

Welcome to the latest edition of what’s new and improved in Yugabyte Docs. We’re always adding new and updating existing documentation to provide you with the most up-to-date information on YugabyteDB, Yugabyte Platform, and our database ecosystem.

YugabyteDB Core

We had previously launched the Explore section to help users get started with YugabyteDB. YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database that uniquely combines enterprise-grade RDBMS capabilities with the horizontal scalability and resilience of cloud native architectures.

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What’s New in YugabyteDB Docs – December 2020

December 14, 2020

By Michelle Brinich

Community News Databases Distributed SQL How To Open Source

What’s New in YugabyteDB Docs – December 2020

Welcome to this latest post on what’s new and improved in YugabyteDB Docs! We’re continually adding to and updating the documentation to give you the information you need to make the most out of YugabyteDB.

As a reminder, YugabyteDB provides two distributed SQL APIs:

Yugabyte Structured Query Language (YSQL) is a fully-relational, PostgreSQL-compatible API.
Yugabyte Cloud Query Language (YCQL) is a semi-relational API with document data modeling and has its roots in the Apache Cassandra Query Language (CQL).

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Yugabyte Platform

Setting up a database connection

YugabyteDB Core

Explore Distributed SQL and YugabyteDB in Depth