YugabyteDB
A distributed SQL database that reuses PostgreSQL's query layer on top of a Raft replicated document store. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- database engine
- Developer
- Yugabyte
- Created by
- Kannan Muthukkaruppan, Karthik Ranganathan, Mikhail Bautin
- First release
- 2017
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free with paid plans
- Website
- https://www.yugabyte.com
- Written in
- C++, C
- Data model
- Relational, Wide-column
- Storage layout
- Row-oriented
- Workload
- Transactions (OLTP)
- Analytics architecture
- Not an analytics platform
- Query language
- SQL (PostgreSQL dialect), YCQL
- ACID transactions
- Yes
- Schema
- Strict
- Deployment
- Distributed cluster, Managed cloud
- Scaling
- Natively distributed
- Create, read, update, delete
- Create: moderate (Raft consensus on every write); Read: fast (Reads from the tablet leader or a follower); Update: moderate (Raft consensus, a new version in DocDB); Delete: moderate (Tombstones until compaction)