A cloud-native database for building mission-critical applications. This repository contains the Community Edition of the YugaByte Database.

• About YugaByte
• Supported APIs
• Getting Started
• Developing Apps
• Building YugaByte code
  • Prerequisites for CentOS 7
  • Prerequisites for Mac OS X
  • Prerequisites for drivers and sample apps
  • Building the code
  • Running the C++ tests
  • Building Java code alone
  • Running the Java tests
  • Viewing log outputs of Java tests
• Reporting Issues
• Contributing
• License

YugaByte offers both SQL and NoSQL in a single, unified db. It is meant to be a system-of-record/authoritative database that applications can rely on for correctness and availability. It allows applications to easily scale up and scale down in the cloud, on-premises or across hybrid environments without creating operational complexity or increasing the risk of outages.

• See how YugaByte compares with other databases.
• Read more about YugaByte in our docs.

In terms of data model and APIs, YugaByte supports the following on top of a common core data platform:

• Cassandra Query Language (CQL) - with enhancements to support ACID transactions in the works
• Redis - as a full database with automatic sharding, clustering, elasticity
• PostgreSQL (in progress) - with linear scalability, high availability and fault tolerance

Note: You can run your Apache Spark applications on YugaByte DB

YugaByte DB is driver compatible with Apache Cassandra CQL and Redis - you can run existing applications written using existing open-source client drivers.

The distributed transactions feature is supported in the core data platform. The work to expose this as strongly consistent secondary indexes, multi-table/row ACID operations and SQL support is actively in progress. You can follow the progress of these features in our community forum.

Here are a few resources for getting started with YugaByte:

• Quick start guide - install, create a local cluster and read/write from YugaByte.
• Explore core features - automatic sharding & rebalancing, linear scalability, fault tolerance, tunable reads etc.
• Real world apps - how real-world, end-to-end applications can be built using YugaByte DB.
• Architecture docs - to understand how YugaByte was designed and how it works

Cannot find what you are looking for? Have a question? We love to hear from you - please post your questions or comments to our community forum.

Here is a tutorial on implementing a simple Hello World application for YugaByte CQL and Redis in different languages:

• Java using Maven
• NodeJS
• Python

We are constantly adding documentation on how to build apps using the client drivers in various languages, as well as the ecosystem integrations we support. Please see our app-development docs for the latest information.

Once again, please post your questions or comments to our community forum if you need something.

CentOS 7 is the main recommended development and production platform for YugaByte.

Update packages on your system, install development tools and additional packages:

sudo yum update
sudo yum groupinstall -y 'Development Tools'
sudo yum install -y ruby perl-Digest epel-release ccache git python2-pip
sudo yum install -y cmake3 ctest3

Also we expect cmake / ctest binaries to be at least version 3. On CentOS one way to achive this is to symlink them into /usr/local/bin.

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/cmake3 /usr/local/bin/cmake
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ctest3 /usr/local/bin/ctest

You could also symlink them into another directory that is on your PATH.

We also use Linuxbrew to provide some of the third-party dependencies on CentOS. We install Linuxbrew in a separate directory, ~/.linuxbrew-yb-build, so that it does not conflict with any other Linuxbrew installation on your workstation, and does not contain any unnecessary packages that would interfere with the build.

git clone https://github.com/Linuxbrew/brew.git ~/.linuxbrew-yb-build
~/.linuxbrew-yb-build/bin/brew install autoconf automake flex gcc libtool maven readline openssl \
libuuid bzip2

We don't need to add ~/.linuxbrew-yb-build/bin to PATH. The build scripts will automatically discover this Linuxbrew installation.

Install Homebrew:

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(
  curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Install the following packages using Homebrew:

brew install autoconf automake bash bison ccache cmake coreutils flex gnu-tar libtool \
             pkg-config pstree wget zlib maven

Also YugaByte build scripts rely on Bash 4. Make sure that which bash outputs /usr/local/bin/bash before proceeding. You may need to put /usr/local/bin as the first directory on PATH in your ~/.bashrc to achieve that.

YugaByte core is written in C++, but the repository contains Java code needed to run sample applications. To build the Java part, you need:

• JDK 8
• Apache Maven.

Also make sure Maven's bin directory is added to your PATH, e.g. by adding to your ~/.bashrc

export PATH=$HOME/tools/apache-maven-3.5.0/bin:$PATH

if you've installed Maven into ~/tools/apache-maven-3.5.0.

For building YugaByte Java code, you'll need to install Java and Apache Maven.

Java driver

YugaByte and Apache Cassandra use different approaches to split data between nodes. In order to route client requests to the right server without extra hops, we provide a custom load balancing policy in our modified version of Datastax's Apache Cassandra Java driver.

The latest version of our driver is available on Maven Central. You can build your application using our driver by adding the following Maven dependency to your application:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.yugabyte</groupId>
  <artifactId>cassandra-driver-core</artifactId>
  <version>3.2.0-yb-15</version>
</dependency>

Assuming this repository is checked out in ~/code/yugabyte-db, do the following:

cd ~/code/yugabyte-db
./yb_build.sh release --with-assembly

The above command will build the release configuration, put the C++ binaries in build/release-gcc-dynamic-community, and will also create the build/latest symlink to that directory. Then it will build the Java code as well. The --with-assembly flag tells the build script to build the yb-sample-apps.jar file containing sample Java apps.

To run all the C++ tests you can use following command:

./yb_build.sh release --ctest

If you omit release argument, it will run java tests against debug YugaByte build.

To run specific test:

./yb_build.sh release --cxx-test util_monotime-test

Also you can run specific sub-test:

./yb_build.sh release --cxx-test util_monotime-test --gtest_filter TestMonoTime.TestCondition

You can skip building C++ code, this can be useful when you only need to rebuild Java code:

cd ~/code/yugabyte-db
./yb_build.sh --scb

Given that you've already built C++ and Java code you can run Java tests using following command:

./yb_build.sh release --scb --sj --java-tests

If you omit release argument, it will run java tests against debug YugaByte build, so you should then either build debug binaries with ./yb_build.sh or omit --scb and then it will build debug binaries automatically.

Alternatively, to run specific test:

./yb_build.sh release --scb --sj --java-test org.yb.client.TestYBClient

To run a specific Java sub-test within a test file use the # syntax, for example:

./yb_build.sh release --scb --sj --java-test org.yb.client.TestYBClient#testClientCreateDestroy

You can find Java tests output in corresponding directory (you might need to change yb-client to respective Java tests module):

$ ls -1 java/yb-client/target/surefire-reports/
TEST-org.yb.client.TestYBClient.xml
org.yb.client.TestYBClient-output.txt
org.yb.client.TestYBClient.testAffinitizedLeaders.stderr.txt
org.yb.client.TestYBClient.testAffinitizedLeaders.stdout.txt
…
org.yb.client.TestYBClient.testWaitForLoadBalance.stderr.txt
org.yb.client.TestYBClient.testWaitForLoadBalance.stdout.txt
org.yb.client.TestYBClient.txt

Note that the YB logs are contained in the output file now.

Please use GitHub issues to report issues. Also feel free to post on the YugaByte Community Forum.

We accept contributions as GitHub pull requests. Our code style is available here (mostly based on Google C++ Style Guide).

YugaByte Community Edition is distributed under an Apache 2.0 license. See the LICENSE.txt file for details.