YugabyteDB
YugabyteDB is a distributed PostgreSQL-compatible SQL database for cloud-native and mission-critical applications. It is delivered as open-source YugabyteDB Core, the fully managed YugabyteDB Aeon DBaaS, and the self-managed YugabyteDB Anywhere control plane, with REST APIs for programmatic management of accounts, projects, clusters, universes, backups, restores, read replicas, allow lists, and maintenance windows.
YugabyteDB publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Aeon REST API and Anywhere REST API. Tagged areas include Cloud Database, Database, DBaaS, Distributed SQL, and PostgreSQL.
The YugabyteDB catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.
YugabyteDB’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, developer console, signup flow, pricing, and 81 more developer resources.
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APIs
YugabyteDB Aeon REST API
The YugabyteDB Aeon REST API provides programmatic access to the fully managed YugabyteDB cloud database service. It is used to deploy and manage clusters and read replicas, sch...
YugabyteDB Anywhere REST API
The YugabyteDB Anywhere REST API enables programmatic management of self-managed YugabyteDB deployments through the YugabyteDB Anywhere (YBA) control plane. It supports creating...
Agent Skills
explain-plan-analyzer
AGENT SKILLoperator
AGENT SKILLyba-api
AGENT SKILLycql
AGENT SKILLysql
AGENT SKILLCollections
Arazzo Workflows
YugabyteDB Aeon Add Read Replica
Add a read replica to a cluster and confirm it becomes ACTIVE.
ARAZZOYugabyteDB Aeon Backup and Restore
Take an on-demand backup, poll until it succeeds, then restore the cluster from it.
ARAZZOYugabyteDB Aeon Configure IP Allow List
Create an IP allow list in a project and confirm its CIDR entries.
ARAZZOYugabyteDB Aeon Configure Maintenance Window
Read the current maintenance window for a cluster, then update its schedule.
ARAZZOYugabyteDB Aeon Discover Account Clusters
Resolve the active account and project, then enumerate the clusters within it.
ARAZZOYugabyteDB Aeon Pause or Resume Cluster
Pause or resume a cluster to control compute billing, then confirm the new state.
ARAZZOYugabyteDB Aeon Provision Cluster
Create a cluster, poll until it becomes ACTIVE, then read its connection endpoints.
ARAZZOYugabyteDB Aeon Scale Cluster
Read a cluster, submit an updated specification, and poll until it returns to ACTIVE.
ARAZZOPricing Plans
Rate Limits
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FinOps
Yugabytedb Finops
FINOPSFeatures
Wire-compatible YSQL API supporting PostgreSQL drivers, ORMs, stored procedures, triggers, and extensions.
ACID transactions, automatic sharding, and horizontal scaling across nodes, zones, and regions.
Geo-distributed clusters with synchronous and asynchronous replication for disaster recovery and data residency.
Fully managed YugabyteDB Aeon clusters across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud regions.
YugabyteDB Anywhere for deploying and operating universes on customer infrastructure and Kubernetes.
On-demand and scheduled backups, point-in-time recovery, and cross-region restore.
Asynchronous read replicas for low-latency reads in additional regions.
Vector search capabilities for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and GenAI workloads.
Cassandra-compatible API for wide-column workloads alongside the PostgreSQL-compatible YSQL API.
Built-in connection pooling and load balancing for distributed workloads.
Use Cases
Replace legacy monolithic RDBMS systems with a horizontally scalable, PostgreSQL-compatible alternative.
Power Kubernetes-deployed and microservices applications with a resilient distributed SQL backend.
Operate global SaaS platforms with low-latency reads and disaster-recovery-ready writes.
Run mission-critical transaction systems requiring strong consistency and high availability.
Handle high-throughput product catalogs, inventory, and orders across regions.
Support subscriber, billing, and session data at carrier scale.
Store embeddings and metadata for retrieval-augmented generation pipelines.
Provide a durable distributed SQL store for edge and streaming application data.
Integrations
Helm charts and a Kubernetes Operator for deploying YugabyteDB on Kubernetes clusters.
Terraform Provider for YugabyteDB Anywhere for infrastructure-as-code management of universes.
Open-source migration tool for moving schema and data from PostgreSQL, Oracle, and MySQL to YugabyteDB.
Native deployment targets for YugabyteDB Aeon and Anywhere across major public clouds.
Compatibility with standard PostgreSQL drivers, ORMs, and tooling via the YSQL API.
Bearer-token authenticated REST APIs for both Aeon and Anywhere control planes.
Solutions
Open-source distributed SQL database available under the Apache 2.0 license.
Fully managed cloud database service operated by Yugabyte.
Self-managed control plane for operating YugabyteDB universes on customer infrastructure.
Database migration service and tooling for moving to YugabyteDB.
Semantic Vocabularies
API Governance Rules
Kubernetes CRDs
yugabytedb backup schedule
CRDyugabytedb backup
CRDyugabytedb dr config
CRDyugabytedb pitr config
CRDyugabytedb release
CRDyugabytedb restore job
CRDyugabytedb storage config
CRDyugabytedb support bundle
CRDyugabytedb ybcertificate
CRDyugabytedb ybplatform
CRDyugabytedb ybprovider
CRDyugabytedb ybuniverse
CRDResources
Get Started 5
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 3
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 9
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 48
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 4
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 5
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API