README

This directory contains design documents with details of how various features work internally. The intended audience for these documents are commiters to the codebase and users wanting a deep understanding of what happens under the hood for various features.

You can find the user-facing YugabyteDB docs here. If you want to understand the architecture of YugabyteDB, the architecture section in the docs is a good place to start.

Below you can find a table of high level and non-trivial features, relevant design documents for them, as well as the main reference engineers.

Feature	Main reference
Admin debug UIs	TBD
Async xCluster replication	Julien, Rahul, Nicolas
Auto Flags	Hari
Automatic tablet splitting	Timur
Cluster load balancing	Julien, Rahul, Sanket
Command line tools	TBD
Distributed backup / restore	Oleg, Sanket, Sergei
Distributed PITR	Sanket, Sergei
Distributed transactions	Mikhail B, Sergei
DocDB encoding	TBD
Encryption at rest	Rahul
Master DDL operation handling	TBD
Online index backfill	Amitanand
Raft consensus	TBD
Raft read replica support	Rahul
Read from followers	Amit
RocksDB	Timur, Sergei
RocksDB: Advanced delta-encoding	Timur
Tablet local bootstrap	TBD
Tablet remote bootstrap	Amit
Tablet server heartbeat	Nicolas
TLS	Sergei
YCQL server component	TBD
YCQL virtual system tables	TBD
YEDIS server component	Amitanand
YSQL colocated tables	Jason
YSQL row level partitioning	Deepthi
YSQL tablegroups	Mihnea
YSQL tablespaces	Deepthi
Yugabyted	Sanket