# Vitess

Cloud-native, horizontally scalable distributed database system built around MySQL.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/vitess/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-30
Listed since: 2026-10-30

## Record

### Links

- home: https://vitess.io/
- repository: https://github.com/vitessio/vitess
- docs: https://vitess.io/docs/
- x: https://twitter.com/vitessio

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Vitess
- maintainerType: community
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2010
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: database
- hosting: binary
- language: go
- runtime: binary
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: mysql
- adminUi: yes
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: binary download

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: Apache-2.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: 24
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-13

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 21397
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 330
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://vitess.io/ (read 2026-10-30)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/vitessio/vitess (read 2026-10-30)
- urls: https://vitess.io/docs/ (read 2026-10-30)
- maintainer: https://vitess.io/community/ (read 2026-10-30)
- maintainerType: https://vitess.io/community/ (read 2026-10-30)
- category: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vitessio/vitess/main/README.md (read 2026-10-30)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/vitessio/vitess/languages (read 2026-10-30)
- runtime: https://vitess.io/docs/get-started/local/ (read 2026-10-30)
- runsAs: https://vitess.io/docs/overview/architecture/ (read 2026-10-30)
- databases: https://vitess.io/docs/overview/supported-databases/ (read 2026-10-30)
- installMethod: https://vitess.io/docs/get-started/local/ (read 2026-10-30)
- installMethod: https://vitess.io/docs/get-started/operator/ (read 2026-10-30)
- installMethod: https://vitess.io/docs/24.0/get-started/vttestserver-docker-image/ (read 2026-10-30)
- adminUi: https://vitess.io/docs/24.0/reference/vtadmin/architecture/ (read 2026-10-30)
- license: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vitessio/vitess/main/README.md (read 2026-10-30)
- licenseModel: https://vitess.io/community/ (read 2026-10-30)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/vitessio/vitess/releases/latest (read 2026-10-30)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/vitessio/vitess/releases/latest (read 2026-10-30)
- firstRelease: https://vitess.io/community/ (read 2026-10-30)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/vitessio/vitess (read 2026-10-30)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/vitessio/vitess/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-30)

## Notes

Vitess is a distributed database system built around MySQL. Its homepage says it is compatible with MySQL while extending its scalability. Vitess supports the MySQL and Percona Server for MySQL databases, and its docs describe the platform as a number of server processes.

The project is written in Go. VTAdmin is its browser interface, with optional role-based access control. The [local install guide](https://vitess.io/docs/get-started/local/) uses pre-compiled binaries for Linux. PlanetScale provides a Kubernetes operator under the Apache 2.0 license, and a Docker image exists for testing.

## Worth knowing

Vitess describes itself as an independent open-source project that no single company controls. It joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in 2018, and the homepage calls it a graduated project there.

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