YugabyteDB

YugaByte DB is a transactional database management system that can scale up and down across multiple regions for planet-scale and geo-distributed applications. Offering both SQL and NoSQL in one platform, it supports distributed ACID transactions, auto-sharding, and auto-balancing. It provides compatible APIs extended from Redis API and Apache Cassandra Query Language (CQL), and SQL API which is compatible with PostgreSQL. Built on a customized version of RocksDB, YugaByte DB's storage engine, DocDB, is a log-structured merge-tree (LSM) based "key to object/document" store.

History

YugaByte DB's first public beta release came out in November 2017. It was developed by the former team that built and ran Facebook's NoSQL platform that supported a number of real-time applications. They left Facebook and found their own company, YugaByte Inc, aiming to build a database management system to unify the data layer for mission-critical applications. Companies like Amazon, Netflix, and Uber have lots of experts, so they manage to offer complex DBaaS platforms which benefit their app developers. However, for traditional enterprises and small startups, the data layer is still an unsolved problem. This is where YugaByte DB comes to rescue.

Storage Model

Custom

Concurrency Control

Multi-version Concurrency Control (MVCC) Optimistic Concurrency Control (OCC)

YugaByte DB uses MVCC for concurrency control. Although not clearly stated, it uses a variant of OCC to ensure atomicity. Under a distributed environment, it uses Two-Phase Commit with Early Acknowledgement. When a transaction wants to modify a number of rows, it will first write "provisional" records of each modified row to the target tablet storing the row. These records will not be seen by the client unless the transaction commits. If conflicts occur when writing these records, the transaction will restart and abort. In this case, the client will see a certain number of retries (restarts are transparent to clients). If no conflicts occur, the transaction will commit and notify success to client. After that, the "provisional" records are applied and cleaned asynchronously.

Foreign Keys

Not Supported

YugaByte DB does not support foreign keys as none of its CREATE TABLE APIs offer keywords to set foreign key constraints.

Data Model

Key/Value Document / XML

YugaByte DB's storage engine, DocDB, is derived from RocksDB. Unlike RocksDB, DocDB is a "key to object/document" store instead of a "key to value" store. Values in DocDB can be primitive types as well as object types (e.g., lists, sorted sets, and sorted maps) with arbitrary nesting.

Query Interface

SQL Command-line / Shell

YugaByte DB offers the following three query APIs:

  • YCQL: Cassandra-compatible API that supports DDL/DML statements, builtin functions, expression operators, and user-defined data types.
  • YEDIS: Redis-compatible API that supports data types including string, hash, set, sorted set, list, and time seris (new in YugaByte DB).
  • YSQL (beta): PostgreSQL-compatible API that supports DDL/DML statements, builtin functions, expression operators, and user-defined data types.

Isolation Levels

Snapshot Isolation

YugaByte DB currently only supports Snapshot Isolation and is still working on supporting Serializable Isolation.

YugabyteDB Logo
Website

https://www.yugabyte.com/

Source Code

https://github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Tech Docs

https://docs.yugabyte.com/

Developer

YugaByte, Inc.

Country of Origin

US

Start Year

2016

Project Type

Commercial, Open Source

Written in

C++

Supported languages

C, C#, C++, Go, Java, JavaScript, Python

Derived From

RocksDB

Inspired By

Cloud Spanner

Compatible With

Cassandra, PostgreSQL, Redis

Operating Systems

Linux, OS X

Licenses

Apache v2