Origins of Yugabyte

The foundations of Yugabyte were established through Karthik's experiences at Facebook, where he built infrastructure for scaling applications amidst rapid user growth. He recognized the need for adaptable database solutions to meet the demands of modern cloud-native applications, stemming from his involvement in developing Apache Cassandra and HBase. Karthik and his co-founders conducted extensive research in 2015, realizing that many databases hadn't innovated in decades and that there was significant interest in simplifying data layer solutions. This led to the inception of Yugabyte, with the goal of creating a unified database that could bridge the gap between SQL and NoSQL systems.