Vitess

Brand Details

Type: Product

Description: Vitess is a cloud-native database system designed for deploying, scaling, and managing large clusters of open-source database instances, primarily MySQL and MariaDB. It addresses challenges related to scaling SQL databases by enabling sharding (horizontally scaling the database), migrating from bare-metal to cloud environments, and managing numerous SQL database instances. Originally developed internally at YouTube, it's now a graduated project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Key features include built-in sharding, which allows database growth without application changes, improved performance via query rewriting, caching, and connection pooling, and high availability through automatic failure detection and repair. It also offers features like materialized views and messaging across shards, and simplifies schema management across a sharded environment. Many large organizations utilize Vitess, including GitHub, Slack, Pinterest, Etsy, and Block.

Website: https://vitess.io