YugabyteDB Tips
  • Home
  • About
  • Featured Videos

Category: Indexes

YugabyteDB Tips > Indexes

Choosing the Right Primary Key to Avoid Write Hotspots

Jim KnicelyMarch 30, 2026

When you move from a single-node database to a distributed system like YugabyteDB, one design decision suddenly matters a lot more: 👉 […]

Read More

Bucket-Based Indexes Still Support Fast Point Lookups in YugabyteDB

Jim KnicelyMarch 25, 2026

Intro In a previous tip, Prevent Hot Shards with Bucket-Based Indexes, we saw how bucket-based indexes can prevent hot shards by spreading […]

Read More

Prevent Hot Shards with Bucket-Based Indexes

Jim KnicelyMarch 25, 2026

🚀 Introduction In distributed databases, not all indexes are created equal. Some indexes look perfectly fine… until your system scales. A classic […]

Read More

Designing the Best Index for a Query in YugabyteDB

Jim KnicelyMarch 13, 2026

Across this indexing series, we improved the same query step by step. We started with a simple index on tenant_id. Then we: […]

Read More

Posts navigation

Older posts
Newer posts

NOTICE

This site is not affiliated, endorsed or associated with YugabyteDB. This site makes no claims on ownership of trademark rights. The author contributions on this site are licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 with attribution required.

Find Us

Address
Here!

Hours
24×7

Recommended YugabyteDB Links

  • Home
  • Key Concepts
  • Docs
  • Blog
  • Forum
  • Content Library
  • Support



YugabyteDB Tips

Copyright 2025 - Knicely/Li