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Yugabyte
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Yugabyte is the company blog at yugabyte.com, writing about systems and data. Since 2018, 46 different Hacker News readers have linked it 103 times, most often “YugabyteDB – The Scalable Distributed SQL Database”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 35 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly link Yugabyte's site and engineering blog when discussing distributed PostgreSQL-compatible databases, citing posts on licensing, high availability, multi-region design and Jepsen testing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 35 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The distributed PostgreSQL database for agents and AI-native workloads. Start serverless and grow to mission-critical. Never re-platform.
Most-linked posts?
- YugabyteDB – The Scalable Distributed SQL Database14 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2018-02-10
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-05-17
- Embracing Chaos: Testing Resiliency and Consistency in YugabyteDB2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-13
- Improving PostgreSQL: How to Overcome the Tough Challenges2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-04
- /blog/how-we-built-a-high-performance-document-store-on-rocksdb/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-23
- YugabyteDB with Enhanced Postgres Compatibility2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-19
- [2019] We Changed YugabyteDB Licensing to 100% Open Source2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-15
- Meko: The Data Infrastructure for Agents That Work and Learn Together2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-07
- YugabyteDB Moves Beyond PostgreSQL 112 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-23
- Why PostgreSQL High Availability Matters and How to Achieve It2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-14
What Hacker News says?
Just took a look and it seems pretty nice! But found their pricing page (which was very hard to find other than the generic "contact sales" page) and it seems the starting price is 360 USD/month, that's not something we're comfortable with right now. USD 0.25/vCPU/hour, minimum 2 vCPU = 0.25*2*24*30 = 360 https://www.yugabyte.com/yugabytedb-managed-standard-price-l...
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on “Neon – Serverless Postgres”Submitted How to Scale a Single-Server Database: A Guide to Distributed PostgreSQL as a story · 33 points
HN discussionPerhaps you should check out YugabyteDB https://www.yugabyte.com/ or CockroachDB https://www.cockroachlabs.com/
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on “Leaving MySQL”Submitted Live Streaming the Super Bowl: The Art of Scaling Across Multiple Cloud Regions as a story · 32 points
HN discussionI've seen https://macrometa.co take a stab at an edge database, but their guarantees (consistency / correctness) don't really infuse any sort of confidence in me [0]. https://yugabyte.com is another global scale database that competes squarely with cockroach-db, though I haven't used either. Cloudflare Workers KV has the simplest model, with a central-db that transparently and eventually only replicates read-only, h…
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on “Launch HN: Fly.io (YC W20) – Deploy app servers close to your users”Submitted Why PostgreSQL High Availability Matters and How to Achieve It as a story · 26 points
HN discussionI've been following YugabyteDB ( https://www.yugabyte.com/ ) with interest for similar reasons. It's build on postgresql so it supports more features than CockroachDB. They just forked PG on top of their clustered document store. And the newest version (2.1) is production ready (their words). Just haven't had the reason to dive in yet, but seems good. Their PR department just isn't as good as CockroachDBs one.
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on “PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database”Submitted Does Open Source Work as a Long-Term Business Model? as a story · 24 points
HN discussionYugabyte | Multiple Positions - DB Engineering, Frontend, SRE, Dev Advocate, Training | Sunnyvale, CA | ONSITE & REMOTE | https://www.yugabyte.com/careers/ Yugabyte is made up of a team that built and ran Facebook’s NoSQL platform and worked first-hand on a number of databases such as Apache HBase, Apache Cassandra (from even before it was open sourced), Oracle, and RocksDB. We came together because we enjoy solving…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2020)”Submitted PgCompute: New PostgreSQL Client-Side Extension for Database Functions as a story · 21 points
HN discussionWhile the future is unwritten, FWIW in 2019 Yugabyte moved to Apache 2.0, open-sourcing features that were previously paywalled. They wrote up their rationale here: https://www.yugabyte.com/blog/why-we-changed-yugabyte-db-lic...
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on “CockroachDB license change”Submitted Improving PostgreSQL: How to Overcome the Tough Challenges as a story · 13 points
HN discussionYes, performance is much better. But it's a bit apples to oranges comparisons because of distributed/sharding nature (example with bitmap scans https://www.yugabyte.com/blog/bitmap-scans-on-distributed-po... ), and always synchronous replication ( https://www.yugabyte.com/blog/yugabytedb-resiliency-vs-postg... ).
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on “MVCC – the part of PostgreSQL we hate the most (2023)”Submitted Doubling Down on Postgres Compatibility: YugabyteDB Levels Up with PG15 Features as a story · 12 points
HN discussionThis is fixed in YugabyteDB that reuses the PostgreSQL query layer source code but uses it's own storage: https://www.yugabyte.com/blog/improve-postgresql/ (other issues too like XID wraparound etc). It's also apache2 license.
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on “MVCC – the part of PostgreSQL we hate the most (2023)”Submitted YugabyteDB with Enhanced Postgres Compatibility as a story · 12 points
HN discussionIt reminds me of Yugabyte, which is Postgres compatible > YugabyteDB is the open source, distributed SQL database for global, internet- scale applications with low query latency, extreme resilience against failures. * However Fly is nicer from a developer's point of view, because it doesn't require you to learn a new query language, you can write good old Postgres. * https://www.yugabyte.com/
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on “Globally Distributed Postgres”Submitted Advanced PostgreSQL Partitioning by Date with YugabyteDB Auto Sharding as a story · 12 points
HN discussionFrom my position MySQL pros: The MySQL docs on how the default storage engine InnoDB locks rows to support transaction isolation levels is fantastic. [1] This can help you better architect your system to avoid lock contention or understand why existing queries may be contending for locks. As far as I know Postgres does not have docs like that. MySQL uses direct I/O so it disables the OS page cache and uses its own b…
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on “PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA”Submitted How I Restored a 15TB YugabyteDB Database from an Amazon S3 Backup in 30 Minutes as a story · 11 points
HN discussionIs this going down the route of YugabyteDB[1]? [1] https://www.yugabyte.com
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on “Let's build a distributed Postgres proof of concept”Submitted Comparing PostgreSQL-Compatible Databases: From Amazon RDS to YugabyteDB as a story · 11 points
HN discussionThere are good and solid HA options in the Postgres ecosystem that are fully open. You can use Patroni for standard Postgres or YugabyteDB that is fault-tolerant by design. Specifics are here: https://www.yugabyte.com/postgresql/postgresql-high-availabi...
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on “An overview of distributed Postgres architectures”Submitted Meko: The Data Infrastructure for Agents That Work and Learn Together as a story · 10 points
HN discussionYugabyteDB is also a fork of PostgreSQL. Last year, they got around to rebasing from 11 to 15, and spent some time working on better isolating their changes to make that easier going forward. https://www.yugabyte.com/blog/yugabytedb-moves-beyond-postgr... > When we set out to make YugabyteDB Postgres-compatible, we took a fork of Postgres, and modified all of the operations that use shared memory or storage to inste…
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on “Neki – Sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess”Submitted How to Enhance Database Performance Testing Using Custom SQL Scripts in PgBench as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI seem to have misunderstood Spanner by and large. I thought their achilles heel was the atomic clock since it is this clock which makes consensus at scale possible and there by transactions. Cockroach and Yugabyte both work on similar principles but they use these hybrid logical clocks. The hybrid logical clock is a function of NTP and a monotonic local clock so I guess this works ok for Raft consensus. https://www…
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on “Understanding Google’s File System (2020)”Submitted Distributed SQL for Dummies – free eBook as a story · 9 points
HN discussionServerless in the context of Postgres means to decouple storage and compute, so you could scale compute "infinitely" without setting up replica servers. This is what Neon offers, where you can just keep hitting their endpoints with your pg client and it should just take whatever load (in principle) and bill you per request. Supabase gives you a server that runs classic Postgres in a process. Scaling in this scenario…
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on “Databricks in talks to acquire startup Neon for about $1B”Submitted YugabyteDB now supports MongoDB API as a story · 7 points
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