YugabyteDB Engineering Update – Nov 27, 2019

VP Developer Relations

November 27, 2019

We are pleased to announce that YugabyteDB 2.0.6 is live! You can read the official release notes of this and previous versions here. This release is shipping with almost 30 new enhancements and bug fixes.

What’s YugabyteDB? It is an open source, high-performance distributed SQL database built on a scalable and fault-tolerant design inspired by Google Spanner. Yugabyte’s SQL API (YSQL) and drivers are PostgreSQL wire compatible

YSQL changes

Transparent read restarts for general queries. #1237
Support row level security (RLS) as per Postgres. #1870
Use database type in catalog_manager for keyspace name uniqueness. #1476
Enable fmgr cache for C functions. #2596
Fix delete from table returning * query with dropped columns. #2398
Update catalog manager data while renaming YSQL table, DB and columns. #2280
FOR [NO KEY] UPDATE. #2842
Use transaction pool for YSQL. #2909
Increase default PostgreSQL output buffer size; fix a bug with unnamed_stmt_psrc. #2975
Use ~/.yugabytedb as default certificate folder for ysqlsh #2985
Pick transaction id such that its leader is local to transaction coordinator #2889

System improvements

Speedup data loading in Master Leader startup. #2663
Speedup CREATE DATABASE for YSQL.
Set Timeout and elapsed time in same units #2826
Track memory taken by CDC producer. #2888
Cleanup TIMED_OUT calls from /rpcz. #2807
Improve logging of shutting down idle and broken connections. #2918
Do not display user index tables as system tables in master UI. #2921
CDC Producer Metrics. #2154
yb-admin support for in-memory encryption keys. #2916
Poll TCMalloc stats on update of root MemTracker. #2566
Fix LB enable / disable handling. #1942
Propagate hybrid time from follower. #2956

Platform

Rotate key with service should not rely on alias/cmk already existing #2943
Enable alerts email button is not clickable #2827
Fix SetUniverseKey task for unencrypted universes #2976
Fix k8s metrics for CPU and Disk Usage.
Support instance profiles for default CMK policy #2949

New Documentation, Blogs, Tutorials, and Videos

New Blogs

New Videos

Designing a Change Data Capture and Two Data Center Architecture for a Distributed SQL Database
Distributed Databases Deconstructed: CockroachDB, TiDB and YugabyteDB
We have uploaded over a dozen videos from this year’s Distributed SQL Summit. You can links to the presentations, slides and a recap of the highlights by checking out, “2019 Distributed SQL Summit Recap and Highlights.”

New Docs

YugabyteDB configuration reference documentation for TServer, Master nodes and port assignments
Two data center (2DC) deployment instructions

Upcoming Meetups and Conferences

PostgreSQL Meetups

Jan 16: Silicon Valley PostgreSQL Meetup

Distributed SQL Webinars

AWS re:Invent

Dec 2-6: Las Vegas

We are Hiring!

YugaByte is growing fast and we’d like you to help us keep the momentum going! Check out our currently open positions:

Our team consists of domain experts from leading software companies such as Facebook, Oracle, Nutanix, Google and LinkedIn. We have come a long way in a short time but we cannot rest on our past accomplishments. We need your ideas and skills to make us better at every function that is necessary to create the next great software company. All while having tons of fun and blazing new trails!

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November 27, 2019

YugabyteDB Engineering Update – Nov 27, 2019

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