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.
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.
From $125/vCPU/month. Free tier available. Storage and data transfer costs additional.
Standard
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
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
Contact salesDesigned 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.
- SQL model
- Full SQL
- ACID transactions
- -
- Highest isolation level
- -
- Consistency
- -
- Horizontal scale
- Natively distributed
- Replication
- -
- Automatic failover / HA
- -
- Deployment
- -
- Serverless / scale-to-zero
- -
- Wire compatibility
- Postgres protocol
- Extensions / plugins / UDFs
- ✓
- Licence class
- -
- JSON / document support
- -
- Geo / spatial
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Cloud / SaaS
- Self-hosted
Integrations (3)
Independently observed- Django
- Hasura
- Spring
YugabyteDB alternatives
Other relational databases we track, ranked by the same independent score.
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.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Posture | 70 | 18.00 | 1260.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 8.00 | 800.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 10.00 | 500.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 29 | 17.00 | 491.4 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 25 | 6.00 | 150.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 17 | 8.00 | 138.5 | ✓ |
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
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"sql_model":"full_sql","extensibility":true,"horizontal_scale":"distributed_native","wire_compatibility":"postgres"} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 3 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |