Explore YugabyteDB

Learn about YugabyteDB features, with examples

Whether you're setting up your first YugabyteDB cluster, evaluating YugabyteDB for a deployment, or want to learn more about YugabyteDB, Explore offers hands-on guidance to YugabyteDB's features, with examples. From core database operations to advanced features like distributed transactions, real-time data streaming, and robust security, Explore equips you with the tools and knowledge to harness YugabyteDB's cloud-native architecture and unlock its full potential for your mission-critical workloads.

API compatibility and data models

PostgreSQL-compatible API

Explore YSQL, YugabyteDB's fully-relational, PostgreSQL-compatible query language.

Advanced features

Going beyond SQL

Learn about YugabyteDB's advanced features for cloud-native applications.

Cluster-aware client drivers

Built-in connection pooling

Geopartitioning

Cassandra-compatible API

Explore YCQL, YugabyteDB's semi-relational, Cassandra-compatible query language.

Keyspaces and tables

Indexes and constraints

Core capabilities

Horizontal scalability

Learn about YugabyteDB's operationally simple and completely transparent scaling.

Resiliency

Learn how YugabyteDB survives and recovers from outages with zero downtime.

Distributed transactions

Learn how distributed transactions work and about YugabyteDB's isolation levels.

Deployment and operations

Multi-region deployments

Flexible deployment options to achieve the right mix of latency, resilience, and consistency.

Observability

Monitoring, alerting, and analyzing metrics.

Security

YugabyteDB supports authentication, authorization (RBAC), encryption, and more.

Colocation

Keep closely related data together via colocation.

Query tuning

Identify and optimize queries in YSQL.

Change data capture

Stream data to Kafka using PostgreSQL logical replication.

Change data capture

Point-in-time recovery

Recover your database at a specific point in time.