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Data Resilience Made Easy With YugabyteDB and Zadara

Data Resilience Made Easy With YugabyteDB and Zadara

YugabyteDB Anywhere’s streamlined approach to backup and restore operations ensures business continuity and data protection across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. When paired with Zadara Object Storage, you get a secure, scalable, and flexible storage solution that meets data protection requirements. This blog explores the benefits of YugabyteDB Anywhere’s backup and restore capabilities, why you should consider Zadara as a storage solution, and a step-by-step configuration guide.

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Distributed SQL Summit 2024: Postgres Without Limits

Distributed SQL Summit 2024: Postgres Without Limits

Register now for the Distributed SQL Summit on Nov 12th. This hybrid event gives the distributed SQL community, customers, partners, and industry leaders a forum to explore how they can eliminate complexity and embrace a modern data ecosystem. Join us to discover the latest distributed SQL innovations and use cases, plus the chance to share your experiences (and questions) with peers and industry experts.

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Exploring the New YugabyteDB Cost Based Optimizer

Exploring the New YugabyteDB Cost Based Optimizer

A key challenge in a distributed SQL database is achieving high throughput and consistency for both write and read operations. This blog explores the new YugabyteDB Cost Based Optimizer (CBO), an essential piece of the puzzle to achieve high throughput for read operations. It highlights the challenges we tackled while developing the CBO, and details how some of the most impactful aspects of YugabyteDB are modeled.

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Delivering Postgres Parallel Queries in YugabyteDB

Delivering Postgres Parallel Queries in YugabyteDB

Delivering query parallelism is a key step on our journey to narrow the performance gap between Postgres and YugabyteDB. This blog examines the Postgres Parallel Query feature supported and available in the latest version of YugabyteDB. Click to discover how query parallelism is implemented and functions in Postgres, and what we did to ensure the feature works in YugabyteDB.

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How to Implement Bitmap Scans on Distributed PostgreSQL

How to Implement Bitmap Scans on Distributed PostgreSQL

A key part of our effort to achieve full Postgres compatibility is providing support for bitmap scans (a scan type that combines multiple indexes). This blog deep dives into the high-level strategy of bitmap scans and examines how Postgres implements bitmap scans, how we adapted bitmap scans to work for YugabyteDB, and areas where YugabyteDB bitmap scans go beyond vanilla Postgres.

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