Geo-Distribution in YugabyteDB: Engineering Around the Physics of Latency
This blog examines the geo-distributed deployment topologies offered with YugabyteDB that can future-proof your data infrastructure and support your app’s needs.
May 10, 2023
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May 3, 2023
Seven Multi-Region Deployment Best Practices
Despite advancements in public clouds, region and zone outages still occur once or twice a year. This blog offers best practices to improve performance and reduce latencies in a multi-region deployment.
April 17, 2023
Maximizing Database Performance: The Benefits of Full Compactions and Automated Scheduling
This blog post describes the benefits of full compactions, some of the scenarios where they are used, and how to best schedule them in YugabyteDB.
March 15, 2023
Fuzzy Matching in YugabyteDB
This blog discusses the performance issues with wildcard lookups in YugabyteDB and showcases alternative methods to find specific data in a large dataset, including several varieties of phonetic matching and trigrams. A test plan is provided to demonstrate basic query timings.
March 14, 2023
Prioritizing Security, Stability, and Client Satisfaction: Insight from Fiserv’s VP and Fellow Architect
Dimitri Farafonov, VP and Fellow Architect at Fiserv, recently sat down to discuss his role at this top global fintech and payments company. During the conversation, he discussed the priorities that guide Fiserv’s database selection process, along with the complexities involved in working to achieve low latency, data consistency, and massive bi-directional scalability, which are critical to Fiserv’s operations.
February 13, 2023
Building Spring Boot Applications with YugabyteDB: A Guide to Creating Native Images Using GraalVM
This blog provides a guide to building Spring Boot applications with YugabyteDB using GraalVM’s ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation to generate a native image. The guide covers the necessary prerequisites and steps to trigger the native build, including how to handle dependencies lacking reachability metadata with explicit runtime hints.
February 1, 2023
Background Compactions in YugabyteDB: An Exploration of File-Level Optimization
This blog covers the function and implementation compactions, focusing on those details and configurations that are relevant to YugabyteDB. The second half focuses on the behavior and prioritization of background compactions.
January 31, 2023
The Curious Case of the Ever-Increasing Tombstones
In storage systems based on LSM/MVCC, when a record is deleted, it’s not immediately removed. A delete marker (typically called a Tombstone) is placed on the record. As the number of tombstones increases, it could adversely affect the performance of a scan. In this blog, we are going to understand this problem and come up with solutions to address it.
January 19, 2023
Using Knex.js to Enhance the Development Experience with Node.js and YugabyteDB
Backend developers working with databases often rely on query builders and object-relational mappings (ORMs) to facilitate database interactions. In this blog, we’ll investigate how the Knex.js query builder can be used to enhance the development experience with Node.js and YugabyteDB.
January 12, 2023
YugabyteDB Testing Approaches: An Insider’s Guide
Accuracy and availability are important for any database management system. Learn about Yugabyte’s rigorous testing process for our core database product, straight from an insider who is involved every day.