December 2018 Summaries

The emerging transactional NoSQL market is driven by the need for simpler, faster, and more resilient application development, deployment, and operations, particularly in internet-scale, user-facing applications that require high performance, geo-distribution, and strong consistency. This shift is also due to the increasing adoption of distributed SQL databases, which are becoming more transactional as well. Transactional NoSQL databases like Amazon DynamoDB, Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB, FaunaDB, MongoDB, FoundationDB, and TiKV are embracing ACID transactions, offering a compromise between scalability and consistency, and providing a common database core for building multiple database APIs. The market is driven by the need to reduce engineering pain, increase application release velocity, and avoid additional licensing costs associated with monolithic SQL/RDBMS.

YugabyteDB has announced the support of Kubernetes StatefulSets for its distributed SQL API, YSQL, which provides a PostgreSQL-compatible Distributed SQL API. This new feature allows cloud-native applications and microservices to rely on SQL and NoSQL to power horizontally scalable, highly fault-tolerant data services without complicated, manually managed sharding and replication architectures. With this support, organizations can now take advantage of linear write scalability, transparently managed data distribution across pods with auto-sharding and re-balancing, scale up or down without downtime or bottlenecks, distributed ACID transactions, low latency tunably consistent reads, and compatibility with PostgreSQL operations. YugabyteDB has accomplished near-perfect wire-compatibility with PostgreSQL by reusing much of the original C codebase, ensuring that many existing PostgreSQL apps will work with minimal modification, right out-of-the-box. The company is excited to collaborate with various members of the PostgreSQL community on its SQL API and look forward to meeting many of them at Meetups and conferences in 2019!