YugabyteDB Docs

Find resources for getting started, migrating existing databases, using your database, and architecting for scalability, reliability, and security.

Introducing YugabyteDB

Video: Introducing YugabyteDB: The Distributed SQL Database for Mission-Critical Applications: Learn about YugabyteDB and how it supports mission-critical applications.
Documentation: Key benefits: Why YugabyteDB should power your next cloud-native application.
Article: Distributed SQL 101: How Distributed SQL powers database modernization and cloud-native applications.
Article: How to Scale a Single-Server Database: A Guide to Distributed PostgreSQL: Why you need Distributed PostgreSQL to truly scale.
Article: Distributed SQL vs Sharded Postgres
Article: Distributed SQL vs NoSQL vs NewSQL: Learn the difference between distributed SQL and other strategies for scaling.
Blog: How 7 Real-World Customers are Using YugabyteDB Aeon: Real-world use cases for moving to a distributed database.
Video: Global Applications with YugabyteDB
Documentation: Build Global Apps: Explore how to design and build global applications with YugabyteDB.
Blog: Unlocking the Power of Event Streaming with YugabyteDB: Real world use cases for streaming data with YugabyteDB.
Video: Architecting a Highly Available and Resilient Systems of Record: Learn how YugabyteDB can be deployed as a system of record and integrates into the broader data ecosystem.

Documentation: Resiliency, high availability, and fault tolerance: Learn how YugabyteDB survives and recovers from outages.
Blog: Data Replication in YugabyteDB: Learn the different data replication options available with YugabyteDB.

Video: How to Start YugabyteDB on Your Laptop: Try YugabyteDB out by running it on your laptop in five minutes.
Product Lab: Create Global Applications: Test YugabyteDB features using a demo application in real time.
Documentation: Quick Start: Try it out for free, in the cloud or on your laptop.
Documentation: Start a multi-node cluster with Yugabyted: Create a multi-node cluster on your laptop.
Documentation: Explore YugabyteDB: Learn about YugabyteDB features, with examples.
Article: Get started using Docker: Use Docker compose to start YugabyteDB with yugabyted.

Playlist: Database Migration using YugabyteDB Voyager: Learn how you can migrate databases to YugabyteDB quickly and securely.
Blog: Simplify Database Migration with New YugabyteDB Voyager: Use YugabyteDB Voyager to migrate from legacy and single-cloud databases.
Documentation: YugabyteDB Voyager: Simplify migration from legacy and cloud databases to YugabyteDB.
Blog: Improving PostgreSQL: How to Overcome the Tough Challenges with YugabyteDB: Problem areas in PostgreSQL and how to resolve them in YugabyteDB.

Blog: Seven Multi-Region Deployment Best Practices: Learn how to reduce latencies and improve performance in a multi-region deployment.
Documentation: Deploy YugabyteDB: Deploy to the public cloud, a private data center, or Kubernetes.
Blog: Rapid Data Recovery: Learn how YugabyteDB performs swift data recovery.
Documentation: Backup and restore: Backup, restore, and point-in-time-recovery.
Documentation: Upgrade YugabyteDB: Upgrade a deployment.

Documentation: Hello world: Use your favorite programming language to build an application that uses YSQL or YCQL APIs.
Video: Distributed PostgreSQL Essentials for Developers: Hands-on Course
Documentation: Build and learn the essential capabilities of YugabyteDB: Build a scalable and fault-tolerant movie recommendation service.
Documentation: Best practices: Tips and tricks to build applications for high performance and availability.
Documentation: Drivers and ORMs: Connect applications with your database.

Blog: Database Connection Management: Exploring Pools and Performance: Database connection management with YugabyteDB.
Blog: Understanding Client Connections and How Connection Pooling Works in YugabyteDB YSQL: Understand client connections in YugabyteDB, and how connection pooling helps.

Article: Explain Analyze Dist: YugabyteDB distributed execution plans.
Documentation: Query Tuning How To: Query tuning in YugabyteDB.
Blog: YugabyteDB Memory Tuning for YSQL: Best practices for tuning memory with a YSQL workload.

Blog: Distributed Indexes for Optimal Query Performance: Design indexes to get the best query performance from a distributed database.
Blog: Boost Queries with Index Only Scan: Learn how Index Only Scan can boost secondary index queries in a distributed SQL database.
Article: Covering Indexes: Optimize index creation by covering the right columns.
Documentation: Secondary Indexes in YugabyteDB: Explore secondary indexes in YugabyteDB using YSQL.
Article: Range indexes for LIKE queries in YugabyteDB: Techniques for performing LIKE queries in YugabyteDB.

Blog: Optimize Pagination in a Distributed Database: Design queries to return data with pagination while maintaining global ordering.
Article: Efficient Pagination in YugabyteDB: Learn about the best indexing pattern for PostgreSQL and YugabyteDB.
Article: Pagination with an OFFSET is better without OFFSET: Learn why you shouldn't use OFFSET for pagination.

Blog: How to Avoid Hotspots
Article: Scalable Range Indexes To Avoid Hotspots on Indexes (For range queries and Top-n queries): Learn how to avoid hotspots on range-based indexes in distributed databases.

Blog: Engineering Around the Physics of Latency: Learn about the geo-distributed deployment topologies offered by YugabyteDB.
Article: Local Reads in Geo-Distributed YugabyteDB: Perform local reads in geo-distributed YugabyteDB databases.
Blog: Multi-Region Best Practices: Techniques to reduce latencies and improve performance in a multi-region deployment.