Blogs by: Karthik Ranganathan

Introducing YugabyteDB with Enhanced Postgres Compatibility: Postgres Without Limits
September 19, 2024
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Release Announcements

Introducing YugabyteDB with Enhanced Postgres Compatibility: Postgres Without Limits

We are thrilled to announce powerful new capabilities and architectural enhancements — collectively called enhanced Postgres compatibility — that allow a broader range of Postgres apps to run on YugabyteDB. This latest development makes YugabyteDB the perfect database for companies building cloud-native applications and modernizing existing applications to a cloud-native RDBMS. Click to discover what’s new in YugabyteDB and why we decided to build these new capabilities.

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Does Open Source Work as a Long-Term Business Model?
August 19, 2024
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Open Source

Does Open Source Work as a Long-Term Business Model?

Cockroach Lab’s decision to move away from open source has reignited the debate on the long-term viability of open source projects, and how companies can find success with this business model. Discover why Yugabyte co-founder Karthik Ranganathan believes that open source (and PostgreSQL) is the future, and the reasons why YugabyteDB is (and will continue to be) fully open.

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Celebrating Significant Growth Milestones in YugabyteDB’s Community!
May 13, 2022
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Community NewsDatabasesDistributed SQL

Celebrating Significant Growth Milestones in YugabyteDB’s Community!

The YugabyteDB community is at the heart of everything we do at Yugabyte. The worldwide community of open source enthusiasts, application builders, and database aficionados has been a fountain of inspiration, knowledge, and belonging for us. Here are some community highlights we’d love to call out.

Over 5K Users in YugabyteDB Community Slack

We planned to celebrate when we reached 5,000 YugabyteDB Community Slack members. But then we blinked and realized we were already over 5,500!

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A Matter of Time: Evolving Clock Sync for Distributed Databases
February 2, 2022
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DatabasesDistributed SQL

A Matter of Time: Evolving Clock Sync for Distributed Databases

Distributed clock synchronization is critical for many applications, including distributed SQL databases. Clock synchronization needs to keep up with the other demands in our modern infrastructure, such as:

  • Applications that have increasing performance requirements while distributing data across different geographic regions
  • Network infrastructure and computing power that is improving constantly

A distributed SQL database is highly available and resilient to failures when deployed across a cluster of nodes.

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Are Stored Procedures and Triggers Anti-Patterns in the Cloud Native World?
October 29, 2021
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Databases

Are Stored Procedures and Triggers Anti-Patterns in the Cloud Native World?

The last decade has seen a rise in usage of distributed SQL databases for transactional, cloud native applications. Popular options include Amazon Aurora, Google Spanner, YugabyteDB, and CockroachDB. All of these databases are resilient to failures and achieve high availability. However, they vary dramatically in the set of relational database management system (RDBMS) features they support.

Google Spanner and CockroachDB have chosen to rewrite the SQL engine from scratch. As a result, they do not implement many of the advanced features supported by a traditional RDBMS.

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YugabyteDB: Reimagining the RDBMS for the Cloud
February 25, 2021
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Community NewsCompany NewsDatabasesDistributed SQLHow It WorksOpen Source

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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What’s New in YugabyteDB 2.5 – Enterprise-Grade Security Features
November 12, 2020
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Community NewsCompany NewsDatabasesDistributed SQLRelease Announcements

What’s New in YugabyteDB 2.5 – Enterprise-Grade Security Features

The YugabyteDB 2.5 release adds many critical enterprise-grade security features. This blog post outlines these newly added features.

Authentication

Adding scram-sha-256 authentication

The first notable addition is the addition of a much improved, password-based authentication mechanism called Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism (or simply SCRAM) as described in RFC5802. This scram-sha-256 authentication mechanism, identical to the most secure PostgreSQL authentication schema,

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Geo-Partitioning of Data in YugabyteDB
November 12, 2020
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DatabasesDistributed SQL

Geo-Partitioning of Data in YugabyteDB

Achieve high performance and regulatory compliance for global apps

We are excited to announce the availability of row-level geo-partitioning in YugabyteDB, a feature heavily requested by our user community and enterprise customers alike. This feature allows fine-grained control over pinning data in a user table (at a per-row level) to geographic locations, thereby allowing the data residency to be managed at the database level.

Making the nodes of a multi-region database cluster aware of the location characteristics of the data they store allows conforming to regulatory compliance requirements such as GDPR by keeping the appropriate subset of data local to different regions,

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