Announcing YugabyteDB 2.2 – Distributed SQL Made Easy

YugabyteDB 2.2 is now generally available, offering several new features to improve its usability and performance. The release includes fully-transactional distributed backups, online index builds, deferred constraints for foreign keys, colocated tables for reducing JOIN latency, TPC-C results, yugabyted server for single-node clusters, and more. These features aim to make distributed SQL easy to use even in demanding enterprise environments. Additionally, the release is a significant step forward for YugabyteDB's community engagement, with over 1300 Slack users, 4100+ GitHub stars, and a 6x increase in clusters created in the last year. The new features are designed to improve developer productivity, data resilience, geographic distribution, and performance while ensuring PostgreSQL wire compatibility.