Product Overview
PostgreSQL is a powerful open-source object-relational database system (ORDBMS) known for its standards compliance, extensibility, and support for both transactional and analytical workloads. It supports complex queries, custom data types, full ACID compliance, and advanced indexing techniques.
SutraDB brings PostgreSQL to your fingertips as a fully managed service — ideal for applications needing high reliability, complex data modeling, and hybrid workloads.
Built-in Technical Advantages: Key Features
Automated Operations & Optimized Performance
SutraDB automates the full lifecycle of your relational database — provisioning, configuration, patching, backups, and performance tuning. Engine-optimized settings ensure predictable throughput for transactional and analytical workloads.
Benefits:
- Automated provisioning, patching & maintenance
- Continuous performance optimization for SQL workloads
- Intelligent backup, restore, and maintenance scheduling
Flexible Deployment & Licensing Options
Choose between open-source or enterprise editions based on your licensing, feature, and compliance needs. Deploy your database on public, private, or hybrid configurations within Yotta’s secure cloud.
Benefits:
- Open-source and commercial license flexibility
- Dedicated or shared deployment models
- Suitable for cloud, private DC, and hybrid setups
Enterprise-Grade Security & Compliance
SutraDB is built on a Zero-Trust security foundation that protects sensitive transactional data. All deployments run in Yotta’s MeitY-empaneled sovereign Tier IV data centers in India.
Benefits:
- Encryption at rest & in transit
- IAM, RBAC, audit logging & access controls
- Compliance aligned to BFSI, government & regulated sectors
High Availability & Disaster Resilience
Designed for mission-critical relational workloads, SutraDB delivers continuous availability with automated failover, synchronous replication, and robust disaster recovery options.
Benefits:
- Multi-AZ high availability
- Automated failover & node recovery
- SLA-backed uptime & data durability guarantees
Consistent Performance & Scalable Architecture
Whether handling millions of transactions or powering analytical dashboards, SutraDB maintains performance consistency with optimized compute allocation and scalable architecture.
Benefits:
- Consistent low-latency transactional performance
- Vertical & horizontal scaling options
- Resource auto-balancing for high-demand workloads
Why PostgreSQL ?
Choose PostgreSQL to run transactional, analytical, and hybrid workloads on a feature-rich, open, extensible, and enterprise-validated database engine.
Full SQL compliance and advanced query support
Ideal for transactional and analytical mixed workloads (HTAP)
Extensible with custom functions, types, and procedural languages
Rich indexing: B-tree, GIN, GiST, BRIN, full-text search
Active community with wide adoption in enterprises
Use Cases
Complex web and enterprise apps
Reliable transactional database with advanced querying capabilities
Analytical & hybrid workloads
Handle operational reporting and real-time insights on the same system
Geospatial applications (GIS)
Store and query spatial data using PostGIS
Event-driven & time-series systems
Leverage TimescaleDB for efficient time-series storage and querying
Data warehousing for SMEs
Serve lightweight OLAP with PostgreSQL's parallel query and indexing power
Technical FAQs and Insights
What version of PostgreSQL is supported?
SutraDB supports the latest and up to two prior (N–2) stable versions of each database engine. Since version updates vary by vendor, please refer to the Yntraa Cloud Assure portal for the most up-to-date list of supported versions.
What is SutraDB?
SutraDB is Yotta’s fully managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) for relational workloads. It simplifies the provisioning, security, scaling, and lifecycle management of leading SQL database engines — enabling enterprises to deploy and operate production-grade databases with ease.
Which databases are supported on SutraDB?
SutraDB supports major relational engines in both open-source and enterprise editions, including: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL) and MariaDB etc.
- Oracle DB enterprise support can be provided based on customer requirements and custom plans are available.
Can I choose between open-source and enterprise variants?
Yes. You can select the database edition that best aligns with your licensing policies, performance targets, and cost strategy — all fully managed by Yotta.
How does SutraDB ensure high availability?
High availability is delivered and ensured through multiple approaches:
- Multi-zone deployment architectures
- Native replication strategies specific to each engine
- Configurable active-passive or active-active clustering
- Automated failover capabilities through semi manual and automated way
This ensures continuous operations with minimal downtime.
Where is my data stored, and is it compliant with Indian regulations?
All SutraDB environments are hosted on Yotta’s India-based sovereign cloud and data centers, ensuring data residency adherence and alignment with regulatory mandates such as:
- RBI
- SEBI
- MeitY
- HIPAA (where applicable)
Ideal for regulated and mission-critical workloads.
How do backups and restores work?
SutraDB offers both offline and online backup of databases as well as enterprise grade backup and recovery service options which will take care of your backup and faster restore requirement of critical data and databases. Further depending upon your requirement you can provision the backup policies to ensure continuous data and database is protected.
What billing and licensing models are available?
You can select the model that suits your business, options are like:
- Pay-as-you-grow consumption-based billing
- Subscription or committed plans for predictable usage
How do I migrate existing databases to SutraDB?
We Supports both homogenous and heterogenous database migrations. And it is further simplified with:
- Yotta-assisted migration and tooling
- Using native replication options and Yotta assistance
- Standard export/import (dump/restore) methods by Yotta
Our certified experts support minimal-downtime migration paths for production workloads.