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MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible cloud relational database service offering high performance and high availability
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Scalable PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL for cloud-native workloads
YugabyteDB delivers PostgreSQL-level functionality with strong consistency, horizontal scaling, and multi-region resilience, enabling real-time OLTP applications to grow across clouds and Kubernetes clusters.

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Multi‑cloud microservice data layer
Deploy YugabyteDB on Kubernetes clusters in AWS and GCP, achieving seamless failover and consistent data across clouds.
Yes, the YSQL API reuses PostgreSQL’s query layer, so standard drivers, ORMs, and extensions that are supported by PostgreSQL 15 work with YugabyteDB.
It uses Raft consensus for replication, providing RPO 0 (no data loss) and automatic failover with recovery typically within three seconds.
Fully supported; YugabyteDB runs as containerized pods and can span multiple zones, regions, or clouds within a Kubernetes cluster.
The database is released under the Apache 2.0 license, offering permissive open-source usage.
Yes, the recent release adds pgvector with HNSW indexing, enabling efficient high-dimensional vector queries.
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