YDB for Application Developers / Software Engineers

This section of YDB documentation covers everything you need to know to develop applications interacting with YDB.

Main resources:

• Getting started with YDB as an Application Developer / Software Engineer

• Example applications working with YDB

• YQL Tutorial - Overview

• Choosing a primary key for:

  • Row-oriented tables
  • Column-oriented tables

• Secondary indexes

• Uploading data to YDB

• Paginated output

• Using timeouts

• Database system views

• Change Data Capture

• Custom attributes in tables

• Reference:

  • YQL - Overview
  • YDB SDK reference
  • YDB CLI
  • YDB compatibility with PostgreSQL
  • Kafka API

If you're interested in developing YDB core or satellite projects, refer to the documentation for contributors.