yugabyte-db VS dolt

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yugabyte-db

Posts with mentions or reviews of yugabyte-db. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-02.
  • Best Practice: use the same datatypes for comparisons, like joins and foreign keys
    1 project | dev.to | 1 Feb 2024
    It is possible to apply Batched Nested Loop but with additional code that checks the range of the outer bigint and compare it only if it matches the range of integer. This has been added in YugabyteDB 2.21 with #20715 YSQL: Allow BNL on joins over different integer types to help migrations from PostgreSQL with such datatype inconsistencies.
  • Jonathan Katz: Thoughts on PostgreSQL in 2024
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jan 2024
    It can be done like https://github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db/ has.
  • Is co-partition or interleave necessary in Distributed SQL?
    1 project | dev.to | 6 Nov 2023
    Therefore, interleaving or co-partitioning is probably not necessary, and would reduce agility and scalability more than improving the performance. Unless you have a good reason for it that you can share on Issue #79. But, first, test and tune the queries to see if you need something else.
  • PostGIS on YugabyteDB Alma8 (workarounds)
    2 projects | dev.to | 3 Oct 2023
    This is a workaround, not supported. I've opened the following issue to get it solve in the YugabyteDB deployment: https://github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db/issues/19389
  • Bitmap Scan in YugabyteDB
    1 project | dev.to | 21 Sep 2023
    Note that there may still be a need for bitmaps, especially with disjunctions (OR) as the following is about conjunction (AND), and it can still be implemented, differently than PostgreSQL. This is tracked by #4634.
  • Yugabyte – distributed PostgreSQL, 100% open source
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Sep 2023
  • PL/Python on YugabyteDB
    2 projects | dev.to | 30 Aug 2023
    FROM almalinux:8 as build RUN dnf -y update &&\ dnf groupinstall -y 'Development Tools' # get YugabyteDB sources ARG YB_TAG=2.18 RUN git clone --branch ${YB_TAG} https://github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db.git WORKDIR yugabyte-db # install dependencies and compilation tools RUN dnf install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm RUN dnf -y install epel-release libatomic rsync python3-devel cmake3 java-1.8.0-openjdk maven npm golang gcc-toolset-12 gcc-toolset-12-libatomic-devel patchelf glibc-langpack-en ccache vim wget python3.11-devel python3.11-pip clang ncurses-devel readline-devel libsqlite3x-devel RUN mkdir /opt/yb-build RUN chown "$USER" /opt/yb-build # Install Python 3 RUN alternatives --remove-all python3 RUN alternatives --remove-all python RUN alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python3.11 3 RUN alternatives --install /usr/bin/python3 python3 /usr/bin/python3.11 3 # add #include "pg_yb_utils.h" to src/postgres/src/pl/plpython/plpy_procedure.c RUN sed -e '/#include "postgres.h"/a#include "pg_yb_utils.h"' -i src/postgres/src/pl/plpython/plpy_procedure.c # if using python > 3.9 remove #include and #include from src/postgres/src/pl/plpython/plpython.h RUN sed -e '/#include /d' -e '/#include /d' -i src/postgres/src/pl/plpython/plpython.h # add '--with-python', to python/yugabyte/build_postgres.py under the configure_postgres method RUN sed -e "/'\.\/configure',/a\ '--with-python'," -i python/yugabyte/build_postgres.py # Build and package the release RUN YB_CCACHE_DIR="$HOME/.cache/yb_ccache" ./yb_build.sh -j$(nproc) --clean-all --build-yugabyted-ui --no-linuxbrew --clang15 -f release RUN chmod +x bin/get_clients.sh bin/parse_contention.py bin/yb-check-consistency.py RUN YB_USE_LINUXBREW=0 ./yb_release --force WORKDIR / RUN mv /yugabyte-db/build/yugabyte*.tar.gz /yugabyte.tgz
  • YugabyteDB official Dockerfile
    1 project | dev.to | 11 Aug 2023
    You have seen me using the official YugabyteDB Docker image extensively. This image is suitable for various purposes, including labs, development, testing, and even production. In the past, we used to create it internally due to its seamless integration with our build process. However, some companies prefer to construct the image on their own, which is indeed a commendable practice. After all, it's not advisable to run random images with root privileges on your servers. As a result, we have made a significant alteration by introducing a refined Dockerfile to our Github repository.
  • FlameGraphs on Steroids with profiler.firefox.com
    1 project | dev.to | 28 Jul 2023
    Of course, I can guess from the function names, but YugabyteDB is Open Source and I can search for them. What happens here is that I didn't declare a Primary Key for my table and then an internal one (ybctid) is generated, because secondary indexes need a key to address the table row. This ID generation calls /dev/urandom. I made this simple example to show that low-level traces can give a clue about high level data model problems.
  • Understand what you run before publishing your (silly) benchmark results
    1 project | dev.to | 19 Jul 2023
    To show that it is not difficut to understand what you run, when in a PostgreSQL-compatible database, I'll look at the HammerDB benchmark connected to YugabyteDB. HammerDB has no specific code for it but YugabyteDB is PostgreSQL-compatible (it uses PostgreSQL code on top of distributed storage and transaction).

dolt

Posts with mentions or reviews of dolt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-09.
  • A MySQL compatible database engine written in pure Go
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Apr 2024
    Hi, this is my project :)

    For us this package is most important as the query engine that powers Dolt:

    https://github.com/dolthub/dolt

    We aren't the original authors but have contributed the vast majority of its code at this point. Here's the origin story if you're interested:

    https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2020-05-04-adopting-go-mysql-se...

  • The Great Migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Mar 2024
    It's a pretty good default stance, yeah.

    We have been trying to convince people to use our new database [1] for several years and it's an uphill battle, because Postgres really is the best choice for most people. They really have to need our unique feature (version control) to even consider it over Postgres, and I don't blame them.

    [1] https://github.com/dolthub/dolt

  • What I Talk About When I Talk About Query Optimizer (Part 1): IR Design
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jan 2024
    We implemented a query optimizer with a flexible intermediate representation in pure Go:

    https://github.com/dolthub/go-mysql-server

    Getting the IR correct so that it's both easy to use and flexible enough to be useful is a really interesting design challenge. Our primary abstraction in the query plan is called a Node, and is way more general than the IR type described in the article from OP. This has probably hurt us: we only recently separated the responsibility to fetch rows into its own part of the runtime, out of the IR -- originally row fetching was coupled to the Node type directly.

    This is also the query engine that Dolt uses:

    https://github.com/dolthub/dolt

    But it has a plug-in architecture, so you can use the engine on any data source that implements a handful of Go interface.

  • Dolt – Git for Data
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jan 2024
  • Dolt: A version-controlled SQL database
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jan 2024
  • Show HN: DoltgreSQL – Version-Controlled Database, Like Git and PostgreSQL
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Nov 2023
    Just want to point out that we're announcing development on the project. It's absolutely not ready for mainstream use yet! We have Dolt (https://github.com/dolthub/dolt) which is production-ready and widely in use, but it uses MySQL's syntax and wire protocol. We are building the Dolt equivalent for PostgreSQL, which is DoltgreSQL, but it's only pre-alpha.
  • Pg_branch: Pre-alpha Postgres extension brings Neon-like branching
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Oct 2023
    Interesting that branching is now better supported and almost free. I wonder if merging can be simplified or whether it already is as simple and as fast as it can be?

    I guess I am inspired by Dolt’s ability to branch and merge: https://github.com/dolthub/dolt

  • SQLedge: Replicate Postgres to SQLite on the Edge
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Aug 2023
    #. SQLite WAL mode

    From https://www.sqlite.org/isolation.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32247085 :

    > [sqlite] WAL mode permits simultaneous readers and writers. It can do this because changes do not overwrite the original database file, but rather go into the separate write-ahead log file. That means that readers can continue to read the old, original, unaltered content from the original database file at the same time that the writer is appending to the write-ahead log

    #. superfly/litefs: aFUSE-based file system for replicating SQLite https://github.com/superfly/litefs

    #. sqldiff: https://www.sqlite.org/sqldiff.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31265005

    #. dolthub/dolt: https://github.com/dolthub/dolt

    > Dolt can be set up as a replica of your existing MySQL or MariaDB database using standard MySQL binlog replication. Every write becomes a Dolt commit. This is a great way to get the version control benefits of Dolt and keep an existing MySQL or MariaDB database.

    #. pganalyze/libpg_query: https://github.com/pganalyze/libpg_query :

    > C library for accessing the PostgreSQL parser outside of the server environment

    #. Ibis + Substrait [ + DuckDB ]

    > ibis strives to provide a consistent interface for interacting with a multitude of different analytical execution engines, most of which (but not all) speak some dialect of SQL.

    > Today, Ibis accomplishes this with a lot of help from `sqlalchemy` and `sqlglot` to handle differences in dialect, or we interact directly with available Python bindings (for instance with the pandas, datafusion, and polars backends).

    > [...] `Substrait` is a new cross-language serialization format for communicating (among other things) query plans. It's still in its early days, but there is already nascent support for Substrait in Apache Arrow, DuckDB, and Velox.

    #. benbjohnson/postlite: https://github.com/benbjohnson/postlite

    > postlite is a network proxy to allow access to remote SQLite databases over the Postgres wire protocol. This allows GUI tools to be used on remote SQLite databases which can make administration easier.

    > The proxy works by translating Postgres frontend wire messages into SQLite transactions and converting results back into Postgres response wire messages. Many Postgres clients also inspect the pg_catalog to determine system information so Postlite mirrors this catalog by using an attached in-memory database with virtual tables. The proxy also performs minor rewriting on these system queries to convert them to usable SQLite syntax.

    > Note: This software is in alpha. Please report bugs. Postlite doesn't alter your database unless you issue INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE commands so it's probably safe. If anything, the Postlite process may die but it shouldn't affect your database.

    #. > "Hosting SQLite Databases on GitHub Pages" (2021) re: sql.js-httpvfs, DuckDB https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28021766

    #. awesome-db-tools https://github.com/mgramin/awesome-db-tools

  • How do you sync dev databases across multiple devices?
    2 projects | /r/PHP | 9 May 2023
  • Ask HN: Data Management for AI Training
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Apr 2023
    If you are just looking for data versioning there is Dolt:

    https://github.com/dolthub/dolt

    And that has a user-friendly UI in DoltHub:

    https://www.dolthub.com/

    You wouldn't store the images themselves in Dolt, those would likely be links to S3 but al the labels and surrounding metadata could be stored in Dolt?

    DISCLAIMER: I'm the CEO of DoltHub so this is self-promotion.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing yugabyte-db and dolt you can also consider the following projects:

citus - Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension

liquibase - Main Liquibase Source

cockroach - CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database.

absurd-sql - sqlite3 in ur indexeddb (hopefully a better backend soon)

neon - Neon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage.

noms - The versioned, forkable, syncable database

psycopg2 - PostgreSQL database adapter for the Python programming language

TimescaleDB - An open-source time-series SQL database optimized for fast ingest and complex queries. Packaged as a PostgreSQL extension.

realtime - Broadcast, Presence, and Postgres Changes via WebSockets

vitess - Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.

Apache AGE - Graph database optimized for fast analysis and real-time data processing. It is provided as an extension to PostgreSQL. [Moved to: https://github.com/apache/age]

temporal_tables - Temporal Tables PostgreSQL Extension