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    Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.

    kubernetes
    database
    cncf
    database-cluster
    mysql
    shard
    vitess
    Go
    Apache-2.0
    21.4K stars
    2.4K forks
    473 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 6, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 24 days ago, with 330 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #67 in the weekly ranking the week of Jul 26, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a cloud-native distributed database system that horizontally scales MySQL through generalized sharding.
    • Enables seamless scaling and resharding with atomic cutover, keeping application queries agnostic to data distribution.
    • Use for building large-scale, fault-tolerant MySQL clusters that require horizontal scaling across multiple nodes.
    • Use for managing dynamic shard splits and merges in growing applications without downtime or query disruption.
    • Use for deploying scalable MySQL backends in Kubernetes environments with integrated clustering and sharding support.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    Apache 2.0

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.

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    • Code of conduct: present

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    From the README

    Vitess is a cloud-native horizontally-scalable distributed database system that is built around MySQL. Vitess can achieve unlimited scaling through generalized sharding.

    Vitess allows application code and database queries to remain agnostic to the distribution of data onto multiple database servers. With Vitess, you can even split and merge shards as your needs grow, with an atomic cutover step that takes only a few seconds.

    Vitess was a core component of YouTube's database infrastructure from 2011, and grew to encompass tens of thousands of MySQL nodes. Starting in 2015, Vitess was adopted by many other large companies, including Slack, Square (now Block), and JD.com.

    For more about Vitess, please visit vitess.io.

    Excerpt from the vitessio/vitess README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Aug 28: +5

    +176 stars over 79 days across 8 snapshot days; best day +5 on Aug 28.

    Forks

    2.4K+53

    Open issues

    1.3K+190

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