Yugabyte, the distributed AI database experts, today announced it was named in the 2026 Gartner® Peer Insights™ “Voice of the Customer for Cloud Database Management Systems” report.
Yugabyte received 98% ‘willingness to recommend’ score and a 4.7 out of 5.0 based on 40 customer reviews as of February 28, 2026. Across product capabilities, sales experience, deployment experience, and support experience, Yugabyte received scores of 4.5 (out of 5) or higher*.
YugabyteDB is built to meet the demands of enterprises in the AI era, delivering the resilience, high availability, and scalability required for business-critical applications. As enterprises move from fragmented, complex data architectures toward more unified data infrastructure, YugabyteDB provides a cloud-native, distributed SQL foundation that simplifies operations while supporting rapid scale.
“As enterprises modernize their data infrastructure for the AI era, they’re rethinking legacy architectures that weren’t designed for global scale or always-on availability and building new AI-native applications for the future,” said Karthik Ranganathan, co-founder and CEO of Yugabyte. “We are proud to be recognized by our customers in Gartner Peer Insights. We believe this recognition reflects how customers are consolidating outdated, monolithic data systems onto a modern, AI-native, cloud-native foundation with YugabyteDB. We’re helping teams simplify operations, support high-performance applications, and continuously evolve without the disruption of building new infrastructure.”
Yugabyte customer reviews from Gartner® Peer Insights™:
- “We are in the process of migrating a high QPS, low latency workload from PostgreSQL, and after an evaluation period, chose Yugabyte to support our mission-critical use case.” – Software Developer in Software.
- “Their team has consistently provided meaningful guidance as we worked through architectural and implementation decisions. Their technical team helped us resolve issues quickly to ensure our project stayed on track.” – VP, Software Development in Software.
- “My overall experience with Yugabyte has been positive. It stands out as a highly resilient, distributed SQL database that combines the familiarity of PSQL, CSQL with strong consistency and horizontal scalability.“ – IT Manager in Healthcare and Biotech.
- “The Yugabyte team has provided exceptional service and support during both the vendor selection and implementation phase that we’ve done with them so far.” – VP, Software Development in Software.
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Gartner Peer Insights Reports: Gartner, Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Cloud Database Management Systems, Peer Contributors, April 24, 2026.
*Rated 4.6/5 for Product Capabilities (40 reviews), 4.8/5 for Sales Experience (33 reviews), 4.6/5 for Deployment Experience (40 reviews), and 4.7/5 for Support Experience (40 reviews).
About Yugabyte
Yugabyte is the company behind YugabyteDB, the AI-native, open-source, high-performance distributed SQL database for building global, cloud-native applications. YugabyteDB serves business-critical applications with SQL query flexibility, high performance, and cloud-native agility, allowing enterprises to focus on business growth instead of complex data infrastructure management. It is trusted by companies in cybersecurity, financial markets, IoT, retail, e-commerce, and other verticals. Founded in 2016 by former Facebook and Oracle engineers, Yugabyte is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, 8VC, Dell Technologies Capital, Sapphire Ventures, and others. Learn more information at www.yugabyte.com.
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