YugabyteDB Engineering Update – Oct 30, 2019

We are pleased to announce that YugabyteDB 2.0.3 is live! You can read the release notes of this and previous versions here. This release is shipping with 50 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. YugabyteDB’s SQL API (YSQL) and drivers are PostgreSQL wire compatible

[#1845] YSQL: Support for TLS Server to Server Encryption

TLS encryption is now supported between yb-master and yb-tserver processes. To enable this new functionality you’ll want to start your master process with the following:

bin/yb-master                               \
    --fs_data_dirs=                         \
    --master_addresses=                     \
    --certs_dir=/home/centos/tls/$NODE_IP   \
    --allow_insecure_connections=false      \
    --use_node_to_node_encryption=true

And the tserver process as such:

bin/yb-tserver                                  \
    --fs_data_dirs=                             \
    --tserver_master_addrs=                     \
    --certs_dir /home/centos/tls/$NODE_IP       \
    --use_node_to_node_encryption=true &

For more information on this feature, check out the TLS encryption documentation.

New Documentation, Blogs, Tutorials, and Videos

New Blogs

• The Benefit of Partial Indexes in Distributed SQL Databases
• How YugabyteDB Scales to More than 1 Million Inserts Per Sec
• Working with PostgreSQL Data Types in YugabyteDB
• YugabyteDB Community Engineering Update, Tricks and Tips – Oct 18, 2019
• 9 Techniques to Build Cloud-Native, Geo-Distributed SQL Apps with Low Latency
• How to: PostgreSQL Fuzzy String Matching In YugabyteDB

New Videos

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

• Default Ports Reference
• yb-admin Utility Page

Upcoming Meetups and Conferences

PostgreSQL Meetups

• Nov 13: Montreal PostgreSQL Meetup
• Nov 14: NYC PostgreSQL Meetup

Distributed SQL Webinars

• 10/30: Distributed Databases Deconstructed: CockroachDB, TiDB and YugabyteDB
• 11/6: Developing Cloud-Native Spring Microservices with a Distributed SQL Backend

KubeCon

• Nov 18-21: San Diego

AWS re:Invent

Dec 2-6: Las Vegas

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What’s Next?

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