Conducting extensive and diverse performance and scalability testing ensures that YugabyteDB remains a reliable and high-performance distributed PostgreSQL database, ideal for handling mission-critical, global-scale, applications. This blog gives a deep dive into our comprehensive testing framework.
YugabyteDB v1.3.1.2’s SQL API successfully passed Jepsen testing, led by Kyle Kingsbury, except for transactional DDL support—a feature we’ll soon add. YSQL will be production-ready in the upcoming YugabyteDB v2.0 release.
MongoDB’s “schemaless” JSON data modeling was initially attractive to web app developers looking to escape the constraints of traditional relational databases, but issues with data durability and ACID transactions have been a consistent challenge. While the recent MongoDB 4.0 release includes multi-document transaction support, this post explores where the platform falls short for transactional, high performance apps.
