Overcoming 5G Data Challenges to Realize Its Potential
5G is backed by a cloud native, service-based architecture. Hale from Rakuten Mobile describes the 5G data challenges and the solutions needed to fully realize its potential.
October 22, 2020
YugabyteDB
October 1, 2020
Effortless Database Installation: Unveiling the Compatibility of YugabyteDB and PostgreSQL
Discover the seamless compatibility between PostgreSQL and YugabyteDB. Learn how the installation commands overlap, including connecting to databases, creating users, schemas, and executing files from the SQL shell.
August 27, 2020
Row Counts of Tables in a SQL Schema and Database: PostgreSQL vs. YugabyteDB
Getting the total row counts of data in tables across various dimensions (per-table, per-schema, and in a given database) is a useful SQL technique to have in your toolkit. This blog post will guide you to obtain per-table row counts of all tables in PostgreSQL and YugabyteDB. This can serve as a first sanity check after migrating an application with pre-existing data from PostgreSQL to YugabyteDB.
This blog post also outlines how to get the following row counts broken down per table in a schema,
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August 13, 2020
Introducing yugabyted, the Simplest Way to Get Started with YugabyteDB
We are excited to announce the availability of yugabyted, a native server that acts as a parent server across the YB-TServer and YB-Master servers. yugabyted’s immediate goal is to remove the day-1 learning curve that can be daunting for new users.
July 28, 2020
TPC-C Benchmark: 10,000 Warehouses on YugabyteDB
We are excited to announce that the TPC-C benchmark implementation for YugabyteDB is now open source and ready to use! While this implementation is not officially ratified by the TPC organization, it closely follows the TPC-C v5.11.0 specification.
For those new to TPC-C, the aim of the benchmark is to test how a database performs when handling transactions generated by a real-world OLTP application. This blog post shows the results of running the TPC-C benchmark in addition to outlining our experience of developing and running a TPC-C benchmark against YugabyteDB.
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July 15, 2020
Announcing YugabyteDB 2.2 – Distributed SQL Made Easy
We are excited to announce the general availability of YugabyteDB 2.2! The highlight of this release is that YugabyteDB now supports fully-transactional distributed backups thus making mission-critical distributed SQL deployments operationally simple, even for the most demanding enterprise environments. This release also includes critical new features such as online index builds, colocated tables, and deferred constraints. The end result is that YugabyteDB continues to make distributed SQL easy. For those of you who are new to distributed SQL,
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May 22, 2020
Follow-up: Evaluating CockroachDB vs YugabyteDB Webinar
Earlier this week, Yugabyte CTO Karthik Ranganathan presented the live webinar: Evaluating CockroachDB vs YugabyteDB, with a spotlight on comparing PostgreSQL features, architecture, and the latest performance benchmarks between the two databases. We were delighted to see such interest in the topic, dive deeper into some of the topics we raised in parts 1 and parts 2 of the blog series, Bringing Truth to Competitive Benchmark Claims – YugabyteDB vs CockroachDB, and answer questions from the audience.
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May 14, 2020
Oracle vs PostgreSQL: First Glance – Testing YugabyteDB’s Compatibility
This post explores the compatibility of YugabyteDB with Oracle and PostgreSQL by examining 15 different Oracle features and their PostgreSQL equivalents highlighted in Roland Takacs’ blog post “Oracle vs PostgreSQL: First Glance.” As a PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL database, YugabyteDB offers a broad range of SQL features, making it an interesting choice for those looking to migrate from Oracle to a modern tech stack.
May 12, 2020
Boosting Performance for Small Distributed SQL Data Sets with Colocated Tables
In YugabyteDB v2.1, we released a new feature in beta: colocated tables. And we were excited to announce the general availability of colocated tables, along with many other exciting new features, in YugabyteDB 2.2. In this post, we’ll explain what colocated tables are in a distributed SQL database, why you would need them, and how to get started.
May 11, 2020
Getting Started with YugabyteDB on Azure Kubernetes Service
Microsoft’s Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) offers a highly available, secure, and fully managed Kubernetes service for developers looking to host their applications on containers in the cloud. AKS features elastic provisioning, an integrated developer experience for rapid application development, enterprise security features, and the most available regions of any cloud provider.
YugabyteDB is a natural fit for AKS because it was designed to support cloud native environments since its initial design.
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