YDB
The facts below are what the maker publishes about YDB, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From YDB's own pricing page, checked 4 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Managed YDB Serverless | Free | First 1,000,000 operations and first 1 GB/month of storage free · Usage-based; billed for queries and stored data, with a monthly free package |
| Open-Source | Free | Apache 2.0 · community-supported · self-host anywhere |
| Enterprise | Priced on request | Enhanced security and compliance · 24×7 SLA-backed commercial support |
| Managed YDB Dedicated | Priced on request | Compute and storage resources specified by customer · Hourly for dedicated resources, regardless of actual use |
The facts
Each one read from YDB's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI and vector search
- YDB provides a native vector index for approximate nearest-neighbor queries and documents use in semantic search, recommendations, and RAG pipelines.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Analytics
- YDB provides columnar tables and a distributed vectorized query engine for analytical workloads.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- YDB states that its security features help meet requirements including PCI-DSS, SOC 2, and ISO 27001.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- YDB can be deployed on premises and on virtual machines with Ansible, or in cloud environments with Kubernetes.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The integrations documentation lists DBeaver, DataGrip, Grafana, Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, Kafka API, dbt, SQLAlchemy, and LangChain among supported integrations.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- YDB describes its enterprise edition as intended for business-critical applications, with enhanced security, compliance, and SLA-backed commercial support.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Notable limitation
- The dbt-YDB connector is marked Preview and does not currently support all dbt features.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Observability and backups
- YDB integrates with observability software using Prometheus and OpenTelemetry protocols, and backups can use S3-compatible object stores or a filesystem.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Product
- YDB is a distributed SQL database for OLTP, OLAP, and streaming workloads.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Scaling
- YDB automatically shards and rebalances data, and compute and storage can scale independently.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Security
- YDB supports internal users and external users from directory services such as LDAP and IAM, along with user and group access rights.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Streaming
- YDB Topics supports the Kafka API 3.4.0, exactly-once delivery, and automatic partitioning.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Support
- Commercial support offers a Basic 8×5 ticket service and an Advanced 24×7 service through tickets, chat, and videoconferencing.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Transactions
- YDB supports global ACID transactions and strong consistency.checked 4 Oct 2026
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