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# Yandex Managed Service for YDB overview

Yandex Managed Service for YDB allows you to create and manage YDB databases in Yandex Cloud.

To learn more about Yandex Managed Service for YDB concepts, see the following articles:

* [Terms and definitions for Managed Service for YDB](resources.md).
* [Serverless and dedicated operation modes](serverless-and-dedicated.md).
* [Autoscaling](autoscaling.md).
* [DynamoDB tables](dynamodb-tables.md).
* [Data transfer](transfer.md).
* [Quotas and limits in Managed Service for YDB](limits.md).

## YDB DBMS {#ydb}

[YDB](https://ydb.tech/en) is a horizontally scalable distributed fault tolerant DBMS. YDB is designed for high performance with a typical server being capable of handling tens of thousands of queries per second. The system is natively designed to process hundreds of petabytes of data. YDB can operate either in a single-datacenter or a geodistributed (cross-datacenter) configuration on a cluster made up of thousands of servers.

YDB enables online transaction processing (OLTP) and online analytical processing (OLAP).

To interact with YDB, you can use the [YDB CLI](https://ydb.tech/docs/en//reference/ydb-cli/) and [SDKs](https://ydb.tech/docs/en//reference/ydb-sdk/) for C++, Java, Python, Node.js, PHP, and Go. The language used for DB queries is [YQL](https://ydb.tech/docs/en//yql/reference/), a dialect of SQL. For more information about the purpose and best practices of using YDB tools when developing applications, see [Recommendations](https://ydb.tech/docs/en//best_practices/).

To learn more about YDB concepts, see the following articles:

* [Terms and definitions](https://ydb.tech/docs/en//concepts/databases).
* [Data model and schema](https://ydb.tech/docs/en//concepts/datamodel).
* [Transactions](https://ydb.tech/docs/en//concepts/transactions).
* [Secondary indexes](https://ydb.tech/docs/en//concepts/secondary_indexes).
* [Change Data Capture (CDC)](https://ydb.tech/docs/en//concepts/cdc).
* [Time to Live (TTL)](https://ydb.tech/docs/en//concepts/ttl).
* [Scan queries](https://ydb.tech/docs/en//concepts/scan_query).
* [Database limits](https://ydb.tech/docs/en//concepts/limits-ydb).
* [YDB cluster](https://ydb.tech/docs/en//concepts/cluster/).

## Service Level Agreement {#sla}

This service is subject to a [service level agreement](https://yandex.com/legal/cloud_sla). The service level is set out in the document titled [Yandex Managed Service for YDB Service Level](https://yandex.com/legal/cloud_sla_ydb).