Distributed Transactions in YugabyteDB

In this talk, Karthik Ranganathan, a co-founder and CTO of YugabyteDB, talks about transactions in YugabyteDB.

ACID transactions are a fundamental building block when developing business-critical, user-facing applications. They simplify the complex task of ensuring data integrity while supporting highly concurrent operations. While they are taken for granted in monolithic SQL databases, most distributed DBs would forsake them completely.

Fortunately, this is no longer the case. The trend started with Google Spanner, which offered distributed transactions using GPS based atomic clocks – unheard of in the database world before. Now, distributed transactions – without requiring atomic clocks – are offered by distributed SQL databases. One such example of a fully open source database offering this is YugabyteDB. Using the example of YugabyteDB, this talk will explain how distributed ACID transactions can be achieved without atomic clocks – without compromising on performance.