About YugabyteDB
Yugabyte is the company behind YugabyteDB, an open-source, high-performance distributed SQL database designed for building global, cloud-native applications. Founded in 2016 by former Facebook engineers Kannan Muthukkaruppan, Karthik Ranganathan, and Mikhail Bautin, Yugabyte aims to address the evolving needs of modern enterprises by combining the power and familiarity of PostgreSQL with the resilience, scalability, and geo-distribution capabilities typically associated with NoSQL databases. The founders leveraged their extensive experience in building and operating large-scale distributed databases like Apache Cassandra and HBase at Facebook to create a database solution that can handle mission-critical workloads with low query latency and extreme resilience against failures. YugabyteDB is engineered to simplify data infrastructure management, allowing businesses to focus on innovation and growth rather than the complexities of their database systems.
YugabyteDB offers a unique architecture that includes a high-performance document store, automatic sharding, per-shard distributed consensus replication, and multi-shard ACID transactions, inspired by Google Spanner. This design enables YugabyteDB to serve both scale-out RDBMS and internet-scale OLTP workloads effectively. The database is 100% open source under the Apache 2.0 license, a decision made in 2019 that significantly boosted its adoption and community growth. Yugabyte provides flexible deployment options, allowing YugabyteDB to run across public and private clouds, as well as in Kubernetes environments. The company also offers YugabyteDB Aeon (formerly YugabyteDB Managed), a fully managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platform, to further enhance data infrastructure flexibility and efficiency. Yugabyte is trusted by a wide range of organizations, from Fortune 100 companies to startups, across various industries including financial services, retail, e-commerce, telecommunications, and IoT, to power their critical applications and accelerate their digital transformation initiatives.
FAQs
- When was YugabyteDB founded?
- YugabyteDB was founded in 2016.
- Who is the CEO of YugabyteDB?
- Bill Cook is the CEO.
- What industries or markets does YugabyteDB operate in?
- YugabyteDB operates in the following markets: Database Technology, Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, Open Source Software, Data Infrastructure, Database as a Service (DBaaS), Enterprise Software, Software Development, Cloud Native Applications, and Financial Services Technology.
- How many employees does YugabyteDB have?
- YugabyteDB has 201-500 employees.
- Where does YugabyteDB have employees?
- YugabyteDB has employees in United States.
- Is YugabyteDB hiring?
- Yes, YugabyteDB has 1 open remote job.
- Does YugabyteDB support remote work or working from home?
- Yes, YugabyteDB is a remote-friendly company.
- What employee benefits does YugabyteDB offer?
- YugabyteDB provides 14 benefits to their employees.
- Does YugabyteDB offer a four-day work week?
- No, YugabyteDB does not offer a four-day work week.
- What is YugabyteDB's tech stack?
- YugabyteDB has 18 technologies in their tech stack.
- What is YugabyteDB's website?
- YugabyteDB's website is www.yugabyte.com.