YugabyteDB 1.0 — A Peek Under The Hood

YugabyteDB 1.0 is a cloud-native, open-source database designed to simplify multi-workload needs by eliminating the need for multiple databases. It achieves this through its strong consistency, high performance, planet-scale capabilities, cloud native design, and open source core with multiple APIs. The database supports transactional consistency, single row and distributed ACID transactions, JSONB data type, secondary indexes, and read replicas to support various use cases. Its performance is outperforming Apache Cassandra in several benchmarks, and it offers elastic scalability, fault-tolerant design, and infrastructure portability. YugabyteDB's open source core with multiple APIs makes it easy for developers to get started and simplify application development.