Yugabyte: A Distributed PostgreSQL Database

YugabyteDB is an open-source, cloud-native, high-performance database that belongs in the emerging distributed SQL category. Its storage layer uses a “shared nothing” architecture inspired by Google Spanner that brings linear write scalability, low read latency, and intrinsic fault tolerance. And, uniquely in its category, its query layer is implemented by using the “upper half” of the PostgreSQL 11.2 code to bring both wire-protocol and SQL dialect compatibility with vanilla PostgreSQL. This session explains how YugabyteDB works as a cloud-native, distributed PostgreSQL database. And it demonstrates with code examples how important PostgreSQL concepts such as serializable transactions and partial indexes are preserved even while adopting the distributed storage layer of YugabyteDB.