When designing for scale in YugabyteDB, we often think about pre-splitting large tables. But indexes matter too. In YugabyteDB, secondary indexes are […]
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Leaderless Tablets in YugabyteDB
A leaderless tablet is a tablet that currently has no elected Raft leader. Because all writes and strongly consistent reads are served […]
Read MoreHow to Show Leader and Replica Counts Per Node in YugabyteDB Using Pure SQL
When working with YugabyteDB, it is often useful to see how tablets are distributed across nodes. Two especially helpful questions are: ● […]
Read MoreDemonstrating Hot Shard Detection (and Why a Tablet Can Refuse to Split)
You may see a tablet growing large and repeatedly attempting to split… only to fail with errors like: TABLET_SPLIT_KEY_RANGE_TOO_SMALL Failed to detect […]
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