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Architecture

YugabyteDB architecture including query, sharding, replication, transactions and storage layers.

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Design Goals
The design goals around which YugabyteDB is built.
Layered Architecture
A high level overview of YugabyteDB architecture.
4 articles
Concepts
Concepts you need to know to understand the architecture of YugabyteDB, along with the various components and processes that make up a YugabyteDB cluster.
1 article
Query Layer
Learn about the Yugabyte Query Layer (YQL).
4 articles
DocDB Store
Sharding, replication, persistence and performance.
4 articles
DocDB Transactions
Review transaction model and how transactional consistency is ensured at various isolation levels.
5 articles
Core Functions
Understand universe creation, table creation, write IO path, read IO path as well as high availability.