NoSQL

April 17, 2018

Orchestrating Stateful Apps with Kubernetes StatefulSets

Kubernetes, the open source container orchestration engine that originated from Google’s Borg project, has seen some of the most explosive growth ever recorded in an open source project. The complete software development lifecycle involving stateless apps can now be executed in a more consistent, efficient and resilient manner than ever before. However, the same is not true for stateful apps — containers are inherently stateless and Kubernetes did not do anything special in the initial days to change that.

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Overcoming MongoDB Sharding and Replication Limitations

March 7, 2018

By Sid Choudhury

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Overcoming MongoDB Sharding and Replication Limitations

MongoDB’s sharding and replication have improved since it was first an AP database, but it still has limitations for highly scalable and latency-sensitive apps. In this blog, the authors discuss why users switch to YugabyteDB due to distributed ACID transactions and improved scalability.

Building Scalable Cloud Services — An Instant Messaging App

February 2, 2018

By Karthik Ranganathan

How To

Building Scalable Cloud Services — An Instant Messaging App

Explore building a chat app with YugabyteDB, a transactional cloud database. This series begins with a scalable Facebook Messages-like application, leveraging YugabyteDB’s capabilities to handle complex chat functionalities efficiently and effectively. Stay tuned for detailed insights and practical examples in our upcoming posts.

Achieving Sub-ms Latencies on Large Datasets in Public Clouds

January 26, 2018

By Kannan Muthukkaruppan

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Achieving Sub-ms Latencies on Large Datasets in Public Clouds

One of our users was interested to learn more about YugabyteDB’s behavior for a random read workload where the data set does not fit in RAM and queries need to read data from disk (i.e. an uncached random read workload).

The intent was to verify if YugabyteDB was designed well to handle this case with the optimal number of IOs to the disk subsystem.

This post is a sneak peak into just one of the aspects of YugabyteDB’s innovative storage engine,

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Using Redis API as a True Distributed, Fault-Tolerant Database

January 18, 2018

By Karthik Ranganathan

How It Works

Using Redis API as a True Distributed, Fault-Tolerant Database

YugabyteDB’s compatibility with the Redis API enhances data replication and consistency, offering a ‘unified cache + database’ solution. It simplifies data sharding, supports large datasets without full memory reliance, and provides polyglot persistence for diverse workloads.

Scaling YugabyteDB to Millions of Reads and Writes

January 12, 2018

By Bharat Baddepudi

How It Works Performance Benchmarks

Scaling YugabyteDB to Millions of Reads and Writes

Yugabyte’s 50-node cluster benchmark demonstrates linear scalability in YugabyteDB, doubling throughput from 25 to 50 nodes with consistently low latencies. Conducted on Google Cloud Platform, these results highlight YugabyteDB’s cloud-native capabilities, applicable across various cloud and on-premise environments.

Extending Redis API with a Native Time Series Data Type

January 5, 2018

By Pritam Damania

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Extending Redis API with a Native Time Series Data Type

This blog highlights the challenges of handling time series data with vanilla Redis and the efficiency of YugaByte’s TS datatype

Building a Strongly Consistent Cassandra with Better Performance

December 20, 2017

By Robert Pang

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Building a Strongly Consistent Cassandra with Better Performance

In an earlier blog on database consistency, we had a detailed discussion on the risks and challenges applications face in dealing with eventually consistent NoSQL databases. We also dispelled the myth that eventually consistent DBs perform better than strongly consistent DBs. In this blog, we will look more closely into how YugabyteDB provides strong consistency while outperforming an eventually consistent DB like Apache Cassandra. Note that YugabyteDB retains drop-in compatibility with the Cassandra Query Language (CQL) API.

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