Yugabyte Claims Neutrality in SQL vs. NoSQL Brouhaha
SQL or NoSQL? At Yugabyte, the answer to that cantankerous question is yes and no problem!
How can the cloud database startup have it both ways? Yugabyte's open source distributed database is compatible with both PostgreSQL (a SQL database) and Apache Cassandra (a NoSQL database), making it possible for developers to build apps that take advantage of the respective features and characteristics of those different database types.
“We said, we're going to meet developers where they develop," Yugabyte co-founder and CTO Karthik Ranganathan told me in our recent podcast conversation. "We will support both API's [SQL and NoSQL]. We're not going to invent a new API—that's what people hate.”
During the podcast, we discuss what makes YugabyteDB unique:
The Yugabyte engineering team worked on HBase and Cassandra at Facebook, learnings that have carried over to their current work
Use cases include real-time transactions, microservices, Edge and IoT applications, and geographically-distributed worklo…