YugabyteDB 2.21 Introduces Industry’s First Native Disaster Recovery Orchestration Solution for a Distributed SQL Database

April 30, 2024 at 09:00 AM EDT

YugabyteDB, the distributed PostgreSQL database company for cloud native applications, today announced YugabyteDB 2.21 to arm organizations with advanced disaster recovery and resiliency capabilities. This release extends Yugabyte’s xCluster asynchronous replication with disaster recovery 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 disaster recovery and operational resilience. Legacy database systems often require complex third-party protection solutions. As a result, they struggle to meet the ever-changing compliance demands.

Yugabyte is excited to introduce xCluster Disaster Recovery (DR) for YugabyteDB Anywhere to greatly simplify the end user experience. This new offering represents the first time a distributed SQL database has natively integrated orchestrated DR capabilities into its UI. With it, organizations can easily 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 at Yugabyte. “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.”

While disaster recovery 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 Disaster Recovery with xCluster DR: YugabyteDB xCluster DR 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 now available as an open source operator for early access on Github. The enhanced operator supports GitOps workflows for infrastructure-as-code (IaC), ideal 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 Comprehensive Data Protection with CommVault Integration: For protection against unexpected and less common issues that require advanced backup services, YugabyteDB and Commvault Cloud now 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. Read Committed Isolation is also generally available. Upgrade Rollbacks are planned for release in YugabyteDB 2.20.3.

To learn more about Yugabyte’s xCluster DR Solution, visit: https://docs.yugabyte.com/stable/yugabyte-platform/back-up-restore-universes/disaster-recovery/.

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