Overview
Migrate your database using YugabyteDB Voyager
YugabyteDB Voyager is a powerful open-source data migration engine that accelerates cloud native adoption by removing barriers to moving applications to the public or private cloud. It helps you migrate databases to YugabyteDB quickly and securely.
You manage the entire lifecycle of a database migration, including cluster preparation for data import, schema migration, and data migration, using the yb-voyager command line interface (CLI).
Features
YugabyteDB Voyager has the following features:
- Free and completely open source.
- Supports widely-used databases for migration and, in most cases, doesn't require changes to the source databases.
- Supports all YugabyteDB products as the target database.
- Unified CLI experience for all different source databases.
- Auto-tuneable based on workloads, by analyzing the target cluster capacity; runs parallel jobs by default.
- Progress monitoring, including the expected time for data export and import to complete, using progress bars.
- In case of failures, data import can be resumed.
- Parallelism of data across tables.
- Support for direct data import from CSV or TEXT format files present on local disk or on any cloud storage.
- Live migration of Oracle databases with fall-forward and fall-back. TP
- Live migration of PostgreSQL databases with fall-forward and fall-back. TP
Migration types
You can perform migration by choosing one of the following options:
- Offline migration - Take your applications offline to perform the migration.
- Live migration TP - Migrate your data while your application is running (currently Oracle and PostgreSQL only).
- Live migration with fall-forward TP - Fall forward to the source-replica database for your live migration (currently Oracle and PostgreSQL only).
- Live migration with fall-back TP - Fall back to the source database for your live migration (currently Oracle and PostgreSQL only).
Source databases
YugabyteDB Voyager supports migrating schema and data from your existing RDBMS, as described in the following table:
| Source database type | Migration type | Supported versions and flavors | Migration demo videos |
|---|---|---|---|
| PostgreSQL | Offline and Live | PostgreSQL 9.x - 11.x (Offline) PostgreSQL 10.x - 11.x (Live) Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL Azure Database for PostgreSQL |
Migrating from PostgreSQL to YugabyteDB |
| MySQL | Offline | MySQL 8.x MariaDB Amazon Aurora MySQL Amazon RDS for MySQL Cloud SQL for MySQL |
Migrating from MySQL to YugabyteDB |
| Oracle | Offline and Live | Oracle 11g - 19c Amazon RDS for Oracle |
Migrating from Oracle to YugabyteDB |
Target database
The following table shows the target database support for each migration type.
| Migration type | Supported YugabyteDB Versions | Supported products |
|---|---|---|
| Offline | v2.20.1.0 or later v2.21.0.0 or later v2024.1.1 or later |
YugabyteDB YugabyteDB Anywhere YugabyteDB Aeon |
| Live | v2.20.3.0 or later v2.21.1.0 or later v2024.1.1 or later |
YugabyteDB YugabyteDB Anywhere YugabyteDB Aeon |
| Live with fall-forward/fall-back | v2.20.4.0 or later v2024.1.1 or later |
YugabyteDB YugabyteDB Anywhere |