An Intellyx Brain Candy Update from KubeCon NA 2024
Yugabyte continues to build transaction-scale features atop its open-source postgres-compatible distributed database with new ways to copy and retrieve large data volumes for resilience and data recovery, as well as a new smart data distribution feature to help high-traffic customers avoid unexpected wait times.
As cloud native development moves forward with Kubernetes and containerized edge workloads that can run and scale up in any cloud region or data center, the data that accompanies them must also become portable and scalable. At extreme transaction volumes, the presence of smaller or irregularly sized tables can create network amplification effects and latency as they are referenced across a widely distributed Spanner-style database. The new Yugabyte smart distribution feature collocates data shards with related use cases into localized regions to improve performance.
Also new, their Voyager database migration lifecycle planning and tracking tool provides an assistant that helps enterprises figure out paths and priorities for moving legacy components like stored procedures, Cassandra orbs, and other schema into a modern distributed database system.
Our last coverage of Yugabyte was in 2020.
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