YugabyteDB

Yugabyte was started in February 2016 by former Facebook engineers Kannan Muthukkaruppan, Karthik Ranganathan and Mikhail Bautin, and operates as YugabyteDB Inc. with offices in Sunnyvale (California), Tokyo, Singapore, Pune and Bangalore. It addresses the limits of single-node PostgreSQL for mission-critical applications that must scale out, stay online through failures and run across regions and clouds.

YugabyteDB is an open-source distributed SQL database that keeps full PostgreSQL compatibility, including stored procedures, triggers and extensions such as pgvector, while automatically sharding and replicating data across nodes, zones and regions. It is available as the managed YugabyteDB Aeon service on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure, or self-managed in a customer VPC, data center or air-gapped site, with newer offerings for multi-tenant agentic AI workloads. Customers named on the site include Kroger, Shopify, Rakuten, Tokopedia, Airwallex, Fiserv and Wells Fargo.

• PostgreSQL compatibility: Supports stored procedures, triggers and extensions such as pgvector and Apache AGE.
• Automatic sharding: Distributes data, connections, reads and writes across nodes and scales without downtime.
• Multi-region resilience: Built-in high availability and disaster recovery across zones, regions and clouds.
• Vector search for RAG: Distributed pgvector HNSW indexes handle hundreds of millions of vectors.
• YugabyteDB Aeon: Managed service on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure with backups and point-in-time recovery.
• Voyager migration: Tooling to migrate schemas and data from existing databases, with schema-drift checks.

A Vietnamese bank can move its digital banking or payment ledger from Oracle to a PostgreSQL-compatible cluster spread across two data centers for continuous availability. An e-commerce platform can scale order and inventory databases during flash sales without manual sharding. A SaaS provider can give each tenant its own isolated database for AI agents while keeping costs low.

Applications keep running through node, zone or region failures with zero data loss on failover and rolling upgrades without downtime. Teams reuse PostgreSQL skills, drivers and extensions instead of learning a new database. Case studies on the site cite Kroger running over 5,000 cores with latency under 10 ms and Justuno gaining 3x performance after consolidating four systems, while a commissioned theCUBE Research model estimates a 181 percent three-year ROI.

PostgreSQL has become the most widely used database among developers, and enterprises want to modernize legacy Oracle or sharded MySQL systems without giving up SQL. Banks, payment providers and e-commerce platforms in Southeast Asia face stricter uptime and data residency expectations, which favors distributed SQL that can run across regions or inside local data centers.

Yugabyte was founded in 2016 by former Facebook engineers. Investors listed include Lightspeed, Sapphire Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital, 8VC, Alkeon, Meritech Capital, Wells Fargo and Wipro Ventures. The company has offices in Sunnyvale, Tokyo, Singapore, Pune and Bangalore, and its open-source repository has over 10,000 GitHub stars.