Yugabyte

Yugabyte is a technology company founded in 2016 by Kannan Muthukkaruppan, Karthik Ranganathan, and Mikhail Bautin, who are experienced engineers from Facebook and Nutanix. Based in Sunnyvale, California, the company focuses on distributed SQL database solutions tailored for cloud-native applications that require global scalability and resilience. The primary product, YugabyteDB, is an open-source distributed SQL database that offers horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and fault tolerance. It combines PostgreSQL-compatible SQL with NoSQL-like scalability, making it suitable for multi-region deployments and ACID transactions. Additionally, YugabyteDB Aeon, a fully managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), provides automated deployment and maintenance across major cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. Yugabyte's solutions are trusted by Fortune 100 companies and startups for business-critical applications, emphasizing high performance and global data distribution.