YugabyteDB combines enterprise-grade relational database capabilities including ACID transactions, strong consistency, and secondary indexes with built-in resilience and on-demand scaling, resulting in a modern database delivered as a flexible service. YugabyteDB retains the power and familiarity of PostgreSQL while evolving its capabilities to a distributed, cloud-native architecture that scales but never fails.
With an innovative and re-architected distributed storage layer, YugabyteDB serves both scale-out RDBMS and internet-scale OLTP workloads with low query latency, extreme resilience against failures, and global data distribution. YugabyteDB can be deployed on-premises, across public, private, and hybrid clouds and in Kubernetes environments.
YugabyteDB provides three consumption models:
In this whitepaper, YugabyteDB Anywhere instructions are used to create and manage YugabyteDB deployments.
For more information, see YugabyteDB documentation.