# YugabyteDB

Skill · Databases

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/yugabytedb

YugabyteDB is an open-source, distributed SQL database designed to be resilient, horizontally scalable, and compatible with PostgreSQL, allowing applications to run across multiple nodes or regions without sacrificing transactional consistency. It is used by backend engineers and database administrators building cloud-native applications that need high availability and geographic distribution. It combines the familiarity of relational databases with the scalability traditionally associated with NoSQL systems.

Related skills: [PostgreSQL](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/postgresql), [CockroachDB](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/cockroachdb), [NoSQL](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/nosql)

## Open roles requiring YugabyteDB (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.