The Carnegie Mellon Database Application Catalog
Andy announces a new on-line repository of ready-to-run database applications.
July 05, 2016
June 08, 2016
Distributed Transactions in Vitess
With Vitess introducing sharding and allowing you to create cross-shard indexes, distributed transactions become unavoidable for certain workloads. Currently, Vitess only supports best-effort distributed transactions. So, it’s possible that a distributed commit only completes partially, leaving data in an inconsistent state.
At this point, 2 Phase Commit (2PC) is the only known protocol that allows you to give atomic guarantees for distributed transactions. For this protocol to work, a database must be able to support the ‘Prepare’ contract.
May 20, 2016
CMU's New Graduate Database System Internals Course
Andy reflects on his laborious effort to teach a new course on database system internals.
April 26, 2016
Vitess V2: Now with more V3
Starting with Vitess v2.0.0-beta.2, the VTGate V3 API can route complex single-shard queries (containing joins, subqueries, aggregation, sorting, and any combination thereof) as well as perform cross-shard joins. That means you no longer need to tell VTGate the keyspace ID that a query targets, as you did with the VTGate V2 API.
The fact that keyspace IDs are now hidden from the application has enabled drop-in Vitess libraries for standard database interfaces like JDBC (written by Flipkart), PDO (written by Pixel Federation), PEP 249, and database/sql.
April 22, 2016
Should You Email a Professor During the Ph.D. Admissions Season?
Andy discusses whether a prospective Ph.D. applicant should email a faculty member.
March 10, 2016
Percona Live featured talk with Sugu Sougoumarane – Vitess: The Complete Story
Cross-posted from Percona Blog.
Welcome to the next installment of our talks with Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016 speakers! In this series of blogs, we’ll highlight some of the speakers that will be at this year’s conference, as well as discuss the technologies and outlooks of the speakers themselves. Make sure to read to the end to get a special Percona Live registration bonus!
In this installment, our Percona Live featured talk with Sugu Sougoumarane, Infrastructure & Storage Engineer at YouTube is about Vitess: The Complete Story.
March 03, 2016
Vitess 2.0 is now beta!
That means we've accomplished all our planned overhauls of client APIs and backward-incompatible protocol changes. See the release notes for what's new.
We're now working closely with several users who are evaluating Vitess and providing feedback on the use cases that are important for their particular applications and production environments. If you're at the same stage, we welcome you to join the discussion by posting on the mailing list.
We're also trying out Slack for more conversational topics.