An Introduction to Distributed SQL: Glossary of Terms
In 2017 we introduced YugabyteDB, an open source, high performance, cloud native database for mission-critical applications. As a team, we have worked first hand on a number of databases such as Apache HBase, Apache Cassandra (from even before it was open sourced), Oracle, and RocksDB. We were the team that built and ran Facebook’s NoSQL platform that powered a number of user-facing, real-time applications. Over the years, we have had the opportunity and good fortune to become intimately familiar with what it takes to power mission-critical applications in a cloud-native architecture.
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