Tech riderRev. 4 Oct 2026
- 1Runs onAPI, Linux, self-hosted
- 2CostsFree plan
- 3Deployment modelboth
- 4Horizontal scalingYes
- 5Multi-region deploymentYes
- 6HTAP workloadsYes
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Overview
YDB is ranked #13 of 25 in distributed SQL databases on Specifiction. It runs on API, Linux, Self-hosted. There is a free plan.
YDB plans and pricing
All plansManaged YDB Serverless Free Usage-based; billed for queries and stored data, with a monthly free package First 1,000,000 operations and first 1 GB/month of storage free yandex.cloud · 4 Oct 2026
Managed YDB Dedicated Not published Hourly for dedicated resources, regardless of actual use Compute and storage resources specified by customer yandex.cloud · 4 Oct 2026
Enterprise Not published Enhanced security and compliance · 24×7 SLA-backed commercial support ydb.tech · 4 Oct 2026
Compared on distributed SQL databases
Facts
- Product
- YDB is a distributed SQL database for OLTP, OLAP, and streaming workloads.ydb.tech · 4 Oct 2026
- Transactions
- YDB supports global ACID transactions and strong consistency.ydb.tech · 4 Oct 2026
- Scaling
- YDB automatically shards and rebalances data, and compute and storage can scale independently.ydb.tech · 4 Oct 2026
- Analytics
- YDB provides columnar tables and a distributed vectorized query engine for analytical workloads.ydb.tech · 4 Oct 2026
- Streaming
- YDB Topics supports the Kafka API 3.4.0, exactly-once delivery, and automatic partitioning.ydb.tech · 4 Oct 2026
- 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.ydb.tech · 4 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The integrations documentation lists DBeaver, DataGrip, Grafana, Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, Kafka API, dbt, SQLAlchemy, and LangChain among supported integrations.ydb.tech · 4 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- YDB can be deployed on premises and on virtual machines with Ansible, or in cloud environments with Kubernetes.ydb.tech · 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.ydb.tech · 4 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- YDB states that its security features help meet requirements including PCI-DSS, SOC 2, and ISO 27001.ydb.tech · 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.ydb.tech · 4 Oct 2026
- Support
- Commercial support offers a Basic 8×5 ticket service and an Advanced 24×7 service through tickets, chat, and videoconferencing.ydb.tech · 4 Oct 2026
- Notable limitation
- The dbt-YDB connector is marked Preview and does not currently support all dbt features.ydb.tech · 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.ydb.tech · 4 Oct 2026
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Sources
- ydb.tech· checked 4 Oct 2026
- ydb.tech/docs/en/integrations/· checked 4 Oct 2026
- ydb.tech/docs/en/security/· checked 4 Oct 2026
- ydb.tech/support/· checked 4 Oct 2026
- ydb.tech/docs/en/integrations/migration/dbt· checked 4 Oct 2026
- yandex.cloud/en/docs/ydb/pricing/serverless· checked 4 Oct 2026
- yandex.cloud/en/docs/ydb/concepts/serverless-and-ded· checked 4 Oct 2026