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Loading...Introduction to NewSQL Databases
When our team was tasked with scaling our transactional workload to handle over 10 million requests per day, we knew we had to evaluate NewSQL databases. Last quarter, we discovered that our traditional relational database was struggling to keep up, with query times increasing exponentially. I was frustrated when I realized that our current setup wasn't designed for the high availability and scalability we needed.
The Problem with Traditional Relational Databases
Traditional relational databases are great for many use cases, but they often fall short when it comes to distributed transactional workloads. I realized that our database was the bottleneck, and we needed a solution that could handle high traffic without sacrificing performance.
Enter NewSQL Databases
NewSQL databases aim to combine the best of both worlds: the scalability of NoSQL databases and the transactional capabilities of traditional relational databases. We decided to evaluate three popular NewSQL databases: CockroachDB 23.1, YugabyteDB 2.
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