The Spring Data YugabyteDB project provides a native support for YugabyteDB, a distributed SQL database, to build modern cloud-native applications. It abstracts away the need to learn the database-specific query language, reducing ramp-up time and increasing developer velocity. The project supports first-class support for YugabyteDB Distributed SQL (YSQL) API, Consistent and familiar CRUD operations with reduced boilerplate code using YugabyteDB templates and repositories, ACID transactions, cluster-awareness, topology-awareness, and lightweight ORM support based on Spring Data Relational ORM. Developers can easily get started by adding the required Maven dependencies to their Spring Boot applications and configuring the YsqlTemplate and YugabyteTransactionManager. The project also provides a sample application, Spring Petclinic with Spring Data YugabyteDB, which demonstrates its use in a real-world scenario.