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What do you like best about YugabyteDB?

Yugabyte is easy to provision and Its APIs are very easy to adapt. It also provides plenty of options to scale in a distributed environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about YugabyteDB?

Sometimes at heavy load, its inserts take time, which we have not been worried about when using the Oracle database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is YugabyteDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Distributed database across multiple regions and RDBMS capabilities with JSON columns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

YugabyteDB Overview

What is YugabyteDB?

YugabyteDB is turbocharged PostgreSQL for business-critical transactional applications. 100% open source, it offers built-in resilience, on-demand scaling, and more! YugabyteDB eliminates the tradeoffs you must make with legacy databases by uniquely combining enterprise-grade RDBMS capabilities with the horizontal scalability and resilience of cloud native architectures. YugabyteDB delivers a single logical database that can span across any cloud—private, public or hybrid. Industry-leading companies such as Kroger, GM, Rakuten, Fiserv and Wells Fargo rely on YugabyteDB for mission-critical transactional applications because of key capabilities: PostgreSQL Compatibility YugabyteDB is more than just wire compatible with PostgreSQL, it is code compatible. YugabyteDB achieves this by reusing PostgreSQL’s query layer to achieve a high degree of compatibility with existing PostgreSQL applications or those that can be migrated to PostgreSQL. Developers can be immediately productive with the ecosystem of PostgreSQL compatible frameworks, applications, drivers, and tools. Advanced Relational Database Capabilities YugabyteDB delivers a comprehensive set of advanced RDBMS features like triggers, functions, stored procedures, strong secondary indexes, and distributed ACID transactions. This means that developers no longer need to choose between the horizontal scalability of NoSQL systems and the ACID guarantees of traditional SQL systems. Resilience and High Availability With YugabyteDB, critical services can remain available during node, zone, region, and data center failures with fast failovers. YugabyteDB heals itself by re-replicating data automatically, and delivers zero downtime on maintenance tasks such as software upgrades, security patching, and distributed backups. Horizontal Scalability Operations teams can effortlessly scale out even under heavy load without disruption or downtime by simply adding nodes to their YugabyteDB cluster. The database automatically rebalances load to use available resources. YugabyteDB’s shared nothing architecture is designed with no single point of failure or bottleneck. Geographic Distribution YugabyteDB offers the most comprehensive and flexible deployment options in geo-distributed environments. Operators can make use of synchronous and asynchronous data replication and geo-partitioning to achieve desired consistency, resilience, performance, and compliance objectives. Security YugabyteDB is built from the ground up with data security in mind. The database enables organizations to maintain a robust security posture with built-in controls such as LDAP authentication, role-based access control (RBAC), data encryption at rest and in transit (TLS), audit logging, and column-level permissions. You can also get advanced features such as row level security (RLS) and column-level encryption for more advanced use cases. Download and start using the full set of features for free as a 100% open source solution, or choose one of the other flexible cloud DBaaS consumption options based on your needs: 1. YugabyteDB Aeon: Start with a free trial and enjoy a fully-managed DBaaS service that allows you to leave the day 2 operations and management work to Yugabyte. 2. YugabyteDB Anywhere: Deploy a self-managed DBaaS in your environment with built-in automation to deploy, scale, and monitor YugabyteDB clusters at scale. And YugabyteDB Voyager is a new end-to-end migration tool that can accelerate your cloud native adoption by simplifying the migration of both schema and data from databases like Oracle, PostgreSQL, mySQL, Aurora PostgreSQL, Azure SQL for PostgreSQL, and more. Learn more about Yugabyte products here: https://www.yugabyte.com/ Sign up for YugabyteDB Aeon for free here: https://cloud.yugabyte.com/

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YugabyteDB is turbocharged PostgreSQL for business-critical transactional applications. 100% open source, it offers built-in resilience, on-demand scaling, and more!


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Yugabyte, Inc. is a cloud-native database company that offers YugabyteDB, an open-source, distributed SQL database designed for high scalability and resilience. The platform supports both SQL and NoSQL workloads, enabling developers to build applications that require global distribution, strong consistency, and high availability. YugabyteDB is compatible with PostgreSQL, making it easy for developers to adopt and integrate into existing environments. The company's mission is to empower organizations to manage their data across various cloud environments with ease and efficiency. For more information, visit their website at https://www.yugabyte.com/.


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Mihály B.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Scalable, high-performance PostgreSQL compatible DB"
YugabyteDB is 100% compatible with PostgreSQL. It was easy to migrate our PostgreSQL workloads to YugabyteDB. Our main issues with PostgreSQL was t...
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Extraordinary Database with limitless capabilities"
I like most the distributed nature of YugabyteDB and its high data storage capabilites. DBaaS - Database as a Service. Another great thing is yuga...
Piet d.
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Piet d.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"a Good Idea. Postgres + RocksDB, making a Resilient and Scalable Database."
1st the idea of using postgres-code for the front-end. Which makes migration + learning-curve Easy. 2nd the use of the Raft-Protocol to build a Re...
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YugabyteDB Demo - YugabyteDB Deployment Options
Choose from a variety of flexible deployment options of YugabyteDB based on your needs.
YugabyteDB Demo - Discover YugabyteDB
Modern applications need a cloud native database that eliminates tradeoffs and silos. The world's leading enterprises are modernizing from Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 and other legacy RDBMSs to YugabyteDB for mission-critical applications.
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Fully managed, cloud-native distributed SQL database for transactional applications. Get started for FREE!
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YugabyteDB 2.25 delivers 15 key PostgreSQL 15 features, providing an industry-first zero-downtime PostgreSQL upgrade and downgrade experience. Watch Yugabyte co-founder Karthik Ranganathan share key highlights.
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YugabyteDB 2.25 delivers 15 key PostgreSQL 15 features, providing an industry-first zero-downtime PostgreSQL upgrade and downgrade experience. Watch Yugabyte co-founder Karthik Ranganathan share key highlights.
Watch the keynote from the Distributed SQL Summit 2024 by Karthik Ranganathan, Co-CEO and Founder of YugabyteDB.
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Watch the keynote from the Distributed SQL Summit 2024 by Karthik Ranganathan, Co-CEO and Founder of YugabyteDB.
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What do you like best about YugabyteDB?

YugabyteDB is 100% compatible with PostgreSQL. It was easy to migrate our PostgreSQL workloads to YugabyteDB. Our main issues with PostgreSQL was the ability to scale, YugabyteDB helped us overcome these obsticales.

YugabyteDB also works great in the cloud and is cloud vendor agnostic, so we don't have to be tied to a single cloud provider. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about YugabyteDB?

YugabyteDB is a relatively new software and industry adaptation is low, so it is hard to find system administrators who have the knowledge and expertise with YugabyteDB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is YugabyteDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

YugabyteDB has helped us overcome the performance and reliability issues we previously had with services that used PostgreSQL as their database. Now we can scale these workloads much more easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Piet d.
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What do you like best about YugabyteDB?

1st the idea of using postgres-code for the front-end. Which makes migration + learning-curve Easy. 2nd the use of the Raft-Protocol to build a Resilient back-end. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about YugabyteDB?

Some minor items: The concept of separate master-processes is possibly a downside. Manageing "master lists" via the CLI could/should be automated better. Also, insights into the system could be better if some of the concepts (nodes, masters, tservers, tablets, replicas) were exposed better via SQL. The web-guis are ok, but not the ideal interface for a data-centric system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is YugabyteDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is Resilient+Scalable. Yugabyte will also help in geo-replcation of data over multiple regions. And it addresses some of the downsides of PostgreSQL (it fixes vacuum). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gorinta M.
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What do you like best about YugabyteDB?

One of the best aspects of YugabyteDB is its ease of use, fault tolerance, scalability and compatibility with popular APIs like PostgreSQL and Cassandra. YugabyteDB its the ability to provide strong consistency guarantees while offering horizontal scalability, enabling developers to build highly available and globally distributed applications without sacrificing data integrity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about YugabyteDB?

One potential drawback of YugabyteDB is that it may require significant hardware resources to operate optimally, especially in large-scale deployments. This can lead to higher infrastructure costs compared to traditional single-node databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is YugabyteDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

YugabyteDB solves the problem of building and managing highly scalable, fault-tolerant, and globally distributed databases. It combines the strengths of SQL and NoSQL databases by providing a distributed SQL database that offers strong consistency guarantees while allowing horizontal scalability. This benefits organisations that need to handle large volumes of data require high availability and fault tolerance and want to avoid the complexities of managing multiple database technologies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Daniel M.
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What do you like best about YugabyteDB?

Yugabyte Cloud has built-in high availability and fault tolerance features that ensure your database remains up and running despite hardware failures, network outages, or other issues. This was my best feature of YugabyteDB Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about YugabyteDB?

Limited Community Support: While YugabyteDB is gaining popularity, it still has a smaller community compared to other popular databases like MySQL or PostgreSQL. This means that it may be more difficult to find answers to specific questions or get help from the community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is YugabyteDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Scalability: Scaling a traditional relational database can be difficult and can require complex sharding or partitioning schemes. YugabyteDB, on the other hand, is designed to be highly scalable from the ground up. It uses a distributed architecture that allows you to easily scale horizontally across multiple data centers and cloud providers, which means you can easily handle increasing workloads and growing datasets without worrying about complex sharding or partitioning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about YugabyteDB?

Yugabyte has helped us develop a scaleable and sustainable application that helps us enhance the performance by leveraging the best of yugabyte, the distributed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about YugabyteDB?

None, everything works really well on our system, it seems that yugabyte has already built with good design in mind for the customer, i believe it will reach much bigger audiences Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is YugabyteDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Yugabyte is solving our biggest problem in developing an application, scalability and sustainability, upon implementing yugabyte in our system, our application has received a huge improvement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about YugabyteDB?

YugabyteDB, the high-performance distributed SQL database for building global, internet-scale apps. It is built using a unique combination of the high-performance document store, auto sharding, per-shard distributed consensus replication, and multi-shard ACID transactions (inspired by Google Spanner).

YugabyteDBserves both scale-out RDBMS and internet-scale OLTP workloads with low query latency, extreme resilience against failures, and global data distribution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about YugabyteDB?

adjusting to the performance tuning for distributed query optimizer for work loads migrating from legacy RDBMS requires deeper knowledge and expertise. this can be a learning curve for some teams Automation for self managed clusters on cloud service providers can be improved for easier adoption. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is YugabyteDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Yugabytes support has has been very good, theyve been very responsive and quick to take on new features or fix bugs. Overall were happy with the HA/DR and scalability of the product. As with any data system there are limitations that need to be taken into account that require design changes to optimize the use case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about YugabyteDB?

I like most the distributed nature of YugabyteDB and its high data storage capabilites. DBaaS - Database as a Service.

Another great thing is yugabyteDB is open source. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about YugabyteDB?

Nothing. ACID compliance and maintaining distributed database is really a great thing.

It requires deep analysis to find any issues.

In my opinion, it is getting better everyday. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is YugabyteDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am a indirect user of YugabyteDB. I experienced the limits in normal SQL DB.

NoSQL DB solves specific issues. But the YugabyteDB potenial is way beyond NoSQL and normal SQL. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about YugabyteDB?

YugabyteDB is a great database to learn and to explore new capabilities, especially when it comes to distributed SQL. It stirred my interest to know more about databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about YugabyteDB?

There is still a need to make sure that there is a proper understanding of the system which the yugabyte university helps to bridge the gap and it is relatively new. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is YugabyteDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

YugabyteDB helps to prevent any form of failover and allows for faster and better recovery. This gives more ease of mind when it comes to hosting databases as well as having different partners or clients in another country. The issue is somewhat solved when using yugabyteDB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about YugabyteDB?

Easy to use for performing activity from the browser itself...along with access to CLI. Can handle large amount of data very easily. The customer support service they provide that is very quick and better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about YugabyteDB?

In terms of backup and restore, older versions are not directly compatible on AWS. Have to use workaround to make things working. On latest versions this have been addressed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is YugabyteDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Support for our cloud native applications. It is helping us to handle large amount of data also It is helping us on many different use case. It has been good time using it and it is improving. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Telecommunications
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What do you like best about YugabyteDB?

YugabyteDB is a best choice for today's microservice based applications, it is highly scalable, available and provide high performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about YugabyteDB?

Some of the limitations of YugabyteDB db is that it is not compatible with some external tools and technologies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is YugabyteDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

YugabyteDB has high capability to handle large amount of incoming data, it has both relational and non-relational database support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.