May 2018 Summaries

YugabyteDB 1.0 is a cloud-native, open-source database designed to simplify multi-workload needs by eliminating the need for multiple databases. It achieves this through its strong consistency, high performance, planet-scale capabilities, cloud native design, and open source core with multiple APIs. The database supports transactional consistency, single row and distributed ACID transactions, JSONB data type, secondary indexes, and read replicas to support various use cases. Its performance is outperforming Apache Cassandra in several benchmarks, and it offers elastic scalability, fault-tolerant design, and infrastructure portability. YugabyteDB's open source core with multiple APIs makes it easy for developers to get started and simplify application development.

YugabyteDB 1.0 is a cloud-scale, transactional, and high-performance database designed for modern user-facing applications that require multi-region, cloud-native architecture. It's built on top of a shared-nothing architecture, combining the best of NoSQL and SQL in a single database. YugabyteDB has a pluggable API layer with support for Cassandra, Redis, and PostgreSQL APIs, as well as a document-oriented storage model and distributed ACID transactions. The database is designed to be enterprise-ready, with features like automatic sharding, leader leases, zone-aware data placement, failure detection, and load-balancing. Multiple customers have already deployed YugabyteDB 1.0 in production, including Turvo and Narvar, and the team plans to continue working on functionality, correctness, performance, security, and ecosystem integrations.