Yugabyte, the distributed SQL database experts, announced its support of the new document database-compatible Postgres extension named DocumentDB. This open-source, MIT-licensed document-oriented NoSQL database aims to provide a Postgres-based open standard for BSON data types. By bringing NoSQL workloads on PostgreSQL, Yugabyte’s multi-modal database provides developers with more flexibility when building next-generation applications while reducing database sprawl. DocumentDB is an open source document database engine released earlier this year by Microsoft.
“Collaborating with Microsoft to extend our multi-modal capabilities with DocumentDB introduces more choice and control when building document data stores,” said Karthik Ranganathan, Co-founder and CEO, Yugabyte. “This integration provides developers with the flexibility to build modern applications that leverage the best of both SQL and NoSQL on the same database. We believe this will accelerate software development and simplify operations which is critical in today’s industry and even more so to truly unlock the power of generative AI.”
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This DocumentDB extension gives developers the flexibility to replace MongoDB workloads with YugabyteDB. This also allows them to perform vector search queries powered by the pg_vector Postgres extension to build next-generation applications. YugabyteDB has always had multi-modal support with YSQL (full PostgreSQL compatibility) and YCQL (Cassandra-like NoSQL) handling both relational and semi-relational workloads. This new support for DocumentDB enables developers to combine the power of relational database consistency with the schema flexibility of NoSQL databases and innovations in GenAI to meet the scale demands of document data.
“Although developers use MongoDB for NoSQL document database needs, it is not open source and presents many users with vendor lock-in issues,” said Ranganathan. “Enterprises are looking for a single multi-cloud, vendor-agnostic solution, based on open standards, that can meet their SQL and NoSQL requirements. The icing on the cake is that it is based on Postgres, the fastest growing database in terms of adoption. That’s what we’re providing with the Postgres extension to support document data and operations.”
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With its seamless integration of BSON data types and operations, DocumentDB provides developers with high performance and scalability for applications requiring efficient handling of document-based data in PostgreSQL and YugabyteDB. This means enterprises only have to deploy and manage one database system (PostgreSQL or YugabyteDB), while individual application teams are free to choose between either SQL or NoSQL depending on their use cases.
“Integrating the YugabyteDB SQL database with the open source DocumentDB project opens new opportunities for developers,” said Kirill Gavrylyuk, Vice President, Azure Cosmos DB at Microsoft. “This really highlights the advantage of the open community approach where every engine integrating with the DocumentDB project brings unique strength to this document database ecosystem.”
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Source – businesswire
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