YugabyteDB 2.21 Introduces Native DR Orchestration Solution for Distributed SQL Database

YugabyteDB, the distributed PostgreSQL database company for cloud native applications, announced YugabyteDB 2.21 to arm organizations with advanced DR and resiliency capabilities.

xCluster DR architecture with an active-active, single-master deployment model

This release extends Yugabyte’s xCluster asynchronous replication with DR orchestration. Further innovations in this release boost data resilience by reducing friction to move existing applications to YugabyteDB, eliminating software upgrade risks, and powering predictable and resilient Kubernetes deployments.

New regulations, like DORA in Europe and APPI in Japan, highlight the growing need for robust DR and operational resilience. Legacy database systems often require complex 3rd-party protection solutions. As a result, they struggle to meet the ever-changing compliance demands.

Yugabyte introduces xCluster DR for YugabyteDB Anywhere to simplify the end user experience. This offering represents the 1st time a distributed SQL database has natively integrated orchestrated DR capabilities into its UI. With it, organizations can break free from the rigid one-size-fits-all resilience found in many legacy database architectures.

With a single click (or the corresponding API command) users can perform key operations, including initial setup, failover (unplanned failures), switchover (planned failures), and resynchronization in the event of network failures.

“In today’s digital world of rapidly changing regulatory requirements and frequent cloud outages, data resilience is no longer a luxury, it’s a requirement,” said Karthik Ranganathan, co-CEO and co-founder. “Our new disaster recovery orchestration empowers organizations with the ability to choose the best design pattern for each workload. This allows them to balance their in-region protection, entire-region protection, and performance priorities – while making it easier to address evolving compliance requirements.”

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While DR is a key part of delivering an always-on business, YugabyteDB 2.21 introduces additional enhancements that help organizations focused on strong data resilience do the following:

• Simplify DR with xCluster DR: It removes operational complexity by adding advanced orchestration workflows to an active-active single-master architecture to make the end-to-end setup, switchover, and failover of the DR primary to DR replica simple and turnkey. Unlike traditional systems that force users to use the same mechanism for in-region and entire-region failures, xCluster DR complements YugabyteDB’s native stretched cluster capabilities to provide each workload with the best balance of strong resilience and high performance.

• Upgrade software confidently with upgrade rollbacks: New upgrade rollbacks in YugabyteDB give users confidence when deploying the latest upgrades, thus ensuring they adopt key performance, resilience and bug fixes sooner. Upgrade Rollbacks (currently available as a preview) allow users to test out the upgrade and then easily revert back to the previous software version before committing. This fosters a more confident and agile approach to database upgrades.

• Protect existing applications with Read Committed isolation support: By making support for Read Committed isolation generally available, users can now seamlessly migrate existing applications built on popular databases like PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server to YugabyteDB with minimal to no application changes. Users can escape the risks of single-node database systems and benefit from a modern, distributed database with built-in resilience.

• Power Predictable, robust microservices with enhanced kubernetes operator: The new and improved YugabyteDB Kubernetes (K8s) Operator is available as an open source operator for early access on Github. The enhanced operator supports GitOps workflows for infrastructure-as-code (IaC), for organizations looking for improved data resilience in their K8s environment. The operator provides consistent, repeatable deployments with advance change tracking. In addition, it can take backups and automatically perform retries to automatically address many transient issues.

• Deploy data protection with CommVault integration: For protection vs. unexpected and less common issues that require advanced backup services, YugabyteDB and Commvault Cloud offer enhanced integration, allowing users to manage backups and restores directly from the Commvault Cloud console. This integration enables granular backup and restore options at various levels (cluster, database, keyspace, table) within YugabyteDB deployments.

As well as being available in the YugabyteDB 2.21 preview release, the latest production release of YugabyteDB 2.20.2 includes YugabyteDB xCluster DR as an Early Access feature.

Resources:
Blog : YugabyteDB 2.21 Introduces Industry-First Native Orchestration. It’s Disaster Recovery Made Simple.   
xCluster Disaster recovery