Company
Date Published
Author
Michael Haag and Yogesh Mahajan
Word count
1441
Language
English
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None

Summary

YugabyteDB Voyager is a database migration tool designed to simplify and automate data migration from legacy and single-cloud databases to YugabyteDB, a distributed SQL database. The tool provides an end-to-end migration lifecycle, including planning, assessing, migrating, verifying, and application cutover and optimization. It supports offline and live migrations, as well as failback capabilities in case of failures. Voyager is free, 100% open source, and supports moving data to any version of YugabyteDB. The tool offers a unified CLI experience for all source databases, including Oracle and PostgreSQL, and can handle large-scale database migrations with minimal downtime. It has been successfully tested by beta customers, who have reported positive results in simplifying their database modernization initiatives.