Vitess
Cloud-native, horizontally scalable distributed database system built around MySQL.
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 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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- 2026-10-30: links
vitess.io/ - 2026-10-30: links, GitHub stars
api.github.com/repos/vitessio/vitess - 2026-10-30: links
vitess.io/docs/ - 2026-10-30: Maintainer, Maintained by, License model, First release
vitess.io/community/ - 2026-10-30: Categories, License
raw.githubusercontent.com/vitessio/vitess/main/README.md - 2026-10-30: Written in
api.github.com/repos/vitessio/vitess/languages - 2026-10-30: Runtime, Install with
vitess.io/docs/get-started/local/ - 2026-10-30: Runs as
vitess.io/docs/overview/architecture/ - 2026-10-30: Databases
vitess.io/docs/overview/supported-databases/ - 2026-10-30: Install with
vitess.io/docs/get-started/operator/ - 2026-10-30: Install with
vitess.io/docs/24.0/get-started/vttestserver-docker-image/ - 2026-10-30: Admin interface
vitess.io/docs/24.0/reference/vtadmin/architecture/ - 2026-10-30: Current major version, Last release
api.github.com/repos/vitessio/vitess/releases/latest - 2026-10-30: Contributors
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