YugabyteDB

AI-Ready, Distributed, Postgres-Compatible Database

Also known as
yugabytedb

What is YugabyteDB?

A distributed SQL database designed for mission-critical transactional data, available as open source software or managed cloud services with multi-region and high-availability capabilities.

Independently observed

YugabyteDB pricing

Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
from $125/moHybridFree tier

From $125/vCPU/month. Free tier available. Storage and data transfer costs additional.

Standard

$125/vCPU/month

Good for startups and scale-ups needing seamless scalability, availability, and zone-level resilience.

  • PostgreSQL API (YSQL)
  • Cassandra API (YCQL)
  • Change Data Capture
  • Single-region fault tolerance
  • PostgreSQL extensions
  • Role Based Access Control
  • Encryption in transit and at rest
  • VPC Peering and Private Link
  • Data migration with YugabyteDB Voyager
  • REST API and CLI automation
  • Automated backups and security patching
  • Built-in metrics and alerts

Professional

$167/vCPU/month

For global businesses that need advanced multi-region capabilities, region-level resilience, scalability, and/or compliance with data residency requirements.

  • All Standard features
  • Multi-region stretched clusters
  • Read Replicas
  • Row-level geo-partitioning for data residency
  • Performance Advisor
  • Export metrics to 3rd party tools
  • Export audit logs
  • Send alerts to external tools

Enterprise

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Designed for enterprises needing advanced multi-region capabilities, higher performance and availability, or enterprise security features.

  • All Professional features
  • Customer Managed Keys (CMK) encryption at rest
  • Single Sign On via OpenID Connect (OIDC)

Add-ons

  • Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery
  • Enterprise Integrations

What YugabyteDB does

The capabilities that matter for relational databases, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.

Core
SQL model
Full SQL
Transactions
ACID transactions
-
Highest isolation level
-
Consistency
Consistency
-
Scale
Horizontal scale
Natively distributed
Replication
Replication
-
Availability
Automatic failover / HA
-
Deployment
Deployment
-
Serverless / scale-to-zero
-
Compatibility
Wire compatibility
Postgres protocol
Extensibility
Extensions / plugins / UDFs
Licensing
Licence class
-
Data types
JSON / document support
-
Geo / spatial
-
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS
  • Self-hosted

Integrations (3)

Independently observed
  • Django
  • Hasura
  • Spring

YugabyteDB alternatives

Other relational databases we track, ranked by the same independent score.

Independent · unbought · dated

The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence

Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for YugabyteDB, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 50 / 100
medium · 62%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Security Posture7018.001260.0
Pricing Transparency1008.00800.0
Reliability5010.00500.0
Capabilities2917.00491.4
Price Level256.00150.0
Integrations178.00138.5

Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.

All data & sourcesshow ↓

Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
Capabilities{"sql_model":"full_sql","extensibility":true,"horizontal_scale":"distributed_native","wire_compatibility":"postgres"}mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count3mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Modelcommercialmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Price levelhighmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Starting gbp125mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
Disclosure policyYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Iso27001Yeshighsource · 2026-08-03 · 75%
Soc2Yeshighsource · 2026-08-03 · 75%