YugabyteDB Anywhere

Web · Linux · Self-hosted · API

Freedom report

Two barsScore 6.4

Free tierA free tier is on its own pricing page
Open codeNo open-source code on record
Runs widely2 of 6 device platforms
DocumentedPlans, terms and facts published

YugabyteDB Anywhere is ranked #15 of 31 in spatial databases on Freedom251. It runs on API, Linux, Self-hosted, Web. There is no free plan. A free trial is offered.

YugabyteDB Anywhere plans and pricing

All plans

Evaluation license Free up to 32 consecutive calendar days github.com · 1 Oct 2026

Commercial production license Not published required for production use github.com · 1 Oct 2026

Compared on spatial databases

Free plan: No
Deployment model: hybrid
Supported database engines: YugabyteDB via YSQL and YCQL
Automated provisioning: Yes
High availability management: Yes
Roles and permissions: Yes
Audit logging: Yes

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The record

Product type: YugabyteDB Anywhere is a self-managed database-as-a-service for deploying and operating YugabyteDB universes at scale.
Deployment environments: YBA supports on-premises Linux hosts, public clouds including AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI, and Kubernetes.
Topologies: YBA can deploy multi-region, multi-zone and multi-cloud universes.
Resilience: YBA supports clusters designed to tolerate node, availability-zone, region and cloud-provider failures.
Disaster recovery: YBA supports xCluster deployments with asynchronous replication between two universes for disaster recovery.
Operations: YBA supports online horizontal and vertical scaling, database upgrades, configuration changes, OS patching, backups and point-in-time recovery.
Automation: YBA operations can be performed through a GUI, REST APIs or a Terraform provider, and the documentation also lists a CLI and Kubernetes Operator.
Security controls: YBA supports encryption in transit, encryption at rest with major KMS providers, LDAP and OIDC authentication, and high availability for YBA itself.
Access control: YBA uses role-based access control for UI and REST API access and supports built-in and custom roles.
Certificate security: YBA supports node-to-node and client-to-node TLS with self-signed, custom, CA, HashiCorp Vault and cert-manager certificate options.
Air-gapped use: YBA supports both Internet-connected and air-gapped deployments.
Support and training: Yugabyte provides Yugabyte University courses for YBA operations and links to support and community resources.
Compliance: Yugabyte says its security program is based on ISO 27001 and audited under SSAE18 SOC 2 standards, with reports including SOC 2, PCI DSS, ISO 9001 and ISO 22301.
Universe limit: A YBA universe contains one primary cluster and can optionally include one attached read replica cluster.

Where it ranks on Freedom251

Best Spatial Databases in 2026#15 of 31
Best Multimodel Databases in 2026#13 of 25
Best Database Administration Tools in 2026#2 of 23
Best Distributed SQL Databases in 2026#9 of 23

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Sources

docs.yugabyte.com/stable/yugabyte-platform/· checked 1 Oct 2026
docs.yugabyte.com/stable/yugabyte-platform/yba-overview/· checked 1 Oct 2026
docs.yugabyte.com/stable/yugabyte-platform/administer-yug· checked 1 Oct 2026
docs.yugabyte.com/stable/yugabyte-platform/security/enabl· checked 1 Oct 2026
compliance.yugabyte.com· checked 1 Oct 2026
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db/blob/master/LICENS· checked 1 Oct 2026