Planet-Scale SQL
YugaByte DB is the open source, high-performance SQL database for building internet-scale, globally-distributed apps.
Use Cases for Planet-Scale SQL
Retail & E-Commerce
Delight customers with consistent product catalogs. Increase sales with real-time user personalization. Keep infrastructure costs low through dynamic scaling.
Financial Services
Rock solid reliability and performance for powering mission-critical applications responsible for customer, order and transaction system-of-record data.
Online Gaming
Store player profiles and leaderboards at global scale. Low latency and high throughput data access to build desktop-like experiences for online games.
Why YugaByte DB for Planet-Scale SQL?
PostgreSQL Compatible
- Wire compatible with PostgreSQL
- Sub-millisecond read latency
- Linearly scalable write throughput
Distributed ACID
- Multi-shard transactions
- Strongly consistent replication
- Extreme fault tolerance
Multi-Region
- Global data distribution
- Auto sharding & rebalancing
- Fast read replicas for remote regions
Multi-Cloud
- AWS, GCP, Azure, Pivotal
- Docker, Kubernetes
- Private data centers
Open Source
- Apache 2.0 license
- No database vendor lock-in
- 1-click upgrade to Enterprise
Integrations
- Spring microservices
- Apache Kafka & KSQL streaming
- Apache Spark analytics
How does YugaByte DB compare?
vs PostgreSQL
- Linear write scalability
- Self-healing fault tolerance
- Single-digit millisecond latency
- Distributed ACID transactions
- Multi-TB data density
vs Google Spanner
- PostgreSQL compatibility
- No cloud lock-in
- 10x more cost effective
- Better for internet-scale OLTP
- Multi-TB data density
vs CockroachDB
- Higher throughput & lower latency
- Tunable read latency
- Read replicas for remote regions
- Better for internet-scale OLTP
- Multi-TB data density
