Yugabyte
Software DevelopmentCalifornia, United States201-500 Employees
Yugabyte is a mid-sized software company based in Sunnyvale, California, that develops YugabyteDB, an open-source distributed database for cloud-native applications requiring high performance and reliability. The database is PostgreSQL-compatible and designed to handle large-scale transactional workloads across globally distributed deployments, drawing on a design approach inspired by Google Spanner. It can be deployed across public and private clouds as well as Kubernetes environments, providing low latency and strong resilience for internet-scale workloads. The company serves developers and enterprises building mission-critical cloud-native systems, offering a platform intended for scale-out relational workloads and high-volume online transaction processing with robust regional resilience. It emphasizes open-source credibility through a public GitHub project and comprehensive documentation, and it maintains a community Slack channel for engagement. In April 2026, YugabyteDB was named Overall Open Source Data Solution of the Year at the Data Breakthrough Awards.