Yugabyte 2nd Special Edition

Distributed SQL Databases
For Dummies

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Explore Distributed SQL for AI-Ready, Cloud-Native Apps

Data-driven organizations need an agile cloud-native database to meet modern cloud infrastructure and application architecture. To drive long-term business success, the data layer must be scalable, highly available, secure, and flexible.

Enter distributed SQL.

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About the eBook

Distributed SQL Databases For Dummies provides a detailed explanation of how to meet today's cloud-native, GenAI, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) application demands using a distributed SQL database architecture.

It also covers why a monolithic database structure cannot meet the demands of many modern cloud-native applications. 

What You'll Learn

Distributed SQL is ideal for database modernization initiatives, including AI-powered and cloud-native applications. This book introduces you to distributed SQL and details how to use it to enable business-critical applications in the cloud.

Discover how you can take full advantage of distributed SQL capabilities, including:

  • Horizontal Scalability
  • Ultra Resilience
  • Strong Transactional Consistency
  • Continuous Availability and Resiliency
  • Reliable GenAI Applications
  • Geo-Distribution
  • Dynamic Workload Optimization
  • Hybrid-Cloud and Multi-Cloud Deployments

Download today for free and explore how distributed SQL meets the needs of leading organizations across a wide range of use cases and industries.

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FAQ

What is distributed SQL?

Distributed SQL is a single logical relational database that automatically shards and replicates data across multiple nodes, using quorum-based consensus (such as Raft) to provide strong consistency, ACID transactions, high availability, and distributed query execution. Applications see one database while the system scales horizontally and tolerates failures across zones and regions

Why should I leverage a distributed SQL database?

By leveraging distributed SQL, organizations can achieve elastic scalability (scaling reads and writes by adding nodes without complex sharding), high availability, and resilience. By scaling reads and writes without complex sharding, distributed SQL ensures continuous resilience through synchronous replication and self-healing. It further simplifies operation with built-in rebalancing and no primary-secondary promotions.
Global deployments across multiple regions provide low-latency access and data residency compliance, while PostgreSQL compatibility allows developers to stay productive with familiar tools.

Who benefits from a distributed SQL database?

Organizations building cloud-native, business‑critical applications are the primary beneficiaries of distributed SQL databases. These include businesses across a variety of industries seeking continuous availability, strong consistency, low latency, and global scalability. Organizations adopting a distributed SQL database report seeing consistent fault tolerance, horizontal scalability, and geo-distribution as core advantages.

About YugabyteDB

YugabyteDB is a cloud-native, AI-ready, multi-modal, PostgreSQL-compatible, distributed SQL database that underpins modern business-critical applications, including GenAI apps, with built-in resilience, seamless scalability, and flexible geo-distribution.

It provides SQL query flexibility, high performance, and cloud-native agility, allowing enterprises to focus on business growth instead of complex data infrastructure management.

Trusted by companies in cybersecurity, financial markets, IoT, retail, e-commerce, and other verticals, YugabyteDB helps customers of all sizes build modern, cloud-native, business-critical applications.