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April 7, 2021

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Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – April 7, 2021

Welcome back to our bi-weekly tips and tricks blog where we recap some distributed SQL questions from around the Internet. We’ll also review upcoming events, new documentation, and blogs that have been published since the last post. Got questions? Make sure to ask them on our YugabyteDB Slack channel, Forum, GitHub, or Stack Overflow. Let’s dive right in:

How to create client certs and propagate those on the yb-nodes using the YSQL API

There was a behavior change for the YSQL API after YugabyteDB version 2.5.2 where client certs are no longer required to authenticate to a TLS enabled cluster.

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Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – Oct 16, 2020

October 16, 2020

By Dorian Hoxha

Databases Distributed SQL How To PostgreSQL

Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – Oct 16, 2020

Welcome to this week’s tips and tricks blog where we recap some distributed SQL questions from around the Internet. We’ll also review upcoming events, new documentation, and blogs that have been published since the last post. Got questions? Make sure to ask them on our YugabyteDB Slack channel, Forum, GitHub, or Stackoverflow. Ok, let’s dive right in:

How to use joins in UPDATE statements

Sometimes,

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Four Data Sharding Strategies We Analyzed in Building a Distributed SQL Database

January 14, 2020

By Karthik Ranganathan

Distributed SQL How It Works YugabyteDB

Four Data Sharding Strategies We Analyzed in Building a Distributed SQL Database

A distributed SQL database needs to automatically partition the data in a table and distribute it across nodes. This is known as data sharding and it can be achieved through different strategies, each with its own tradeoffs. In this post, we will examine various data sharding strategies for a distributed SQL database, analyze the tradeoffs, explain the rationale for which of these strategies YugabyteDB supports and what we picked as the default sharding strategy.

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Working with PostgreSQL Data Types in YugabyteDB

October 21, 2019

By Jimmy Guerrero

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Working with PostgreSQL Data Types in YugabyteDB

In this blog post we’ll be focusing on PostgreSQL data types, and test their compatibility with YugabyteDB. You can find a quick list of supported data types in our docs.

Navigating Database Concepts: Mapping YugabyteDB to PostgreSQL and MongoDB

February 28, 2019

By Sid Choudhury

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Navigating Database Concepts: Mapping YugabyteDB to PostgreSQL and MongoDB

In this post, we reviewed the building blocks of the YugabyteDB and mapped them to the corresponding concepts (if any) in PostgreSQL and MongoDB.

Implementing Distributed Transactions the Google Way: Percolator vs. Spanner

July 23, 2018

By Sid Choudhury

Google Spanner

Implementing Distributed Transactions the Google Way: Percolator vs. Spanner

In this blog, we dive deeper into Percolator and Spanner as well as the open source databases (YugabyteDB for example) that they have inspired

July 20, 2018

By Karthik Ranganathan

Community News

Yugabyte Database Engineering Update — July 20, 2018

Welcome to the inaugural edition of the YugabyteDB Community and Engineering update series! Let’s dive in and take a look at what has happened over the last few weeks.

May 2, 2018

By Kannan Muthukkaruppan

Release Announcements

Announcing YugabyteDB 1.0!

Team Yugabyte is delighted to announce the general availability of YugabyteDB 1.0!

It has been an incredibly satisfying experience to, in just two years, build and launch a cloud-scale, transactional and high-performance database that’s already powering real-world production workloads. I wanted to take a moment to share our journey to 1.0 and the road ahead.