Vitess

MySQL-compatible, horizontally scalable, cloud-native database solution.

Vitess was accepted to CNCF on February 5, 2018 at the Incubating maturity level and then moved to the Graduated maturity level on November 5, 2019.

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Health Score

Excellent (82)

Total contributors

2,410

+9% vs. previous year

Total contributing organizations

616

+12% vs. previous year

GitHub Stars

1,877

+7% vs. previous year

GitHub Forks

208

-6% vs. previous year

Software Value

$92.0M

First commit

February 25, 2012

Vitess case studies

CNCF and Expert Support

CNCF and Expert Support


250+ CNCF projects supported through scalable documentation improvement initiatives

May 14, 2026

CNCF and Expert Support: Scaling documentation quality across CNCF projects through best practice education, expert analysis, and writing assistance

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Slack

Slack


20bil Queries per day

November 25, 2019

How Slack leverages Vitess to keep pace with ever-growing storage needs

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Recorded Vitess programs

Transactional microservices with Vitess – coordination without state

Transactional microservices with Vitess – coordination without state

Presented by: PlanetScale
October 2, 2020 1,399 views
How to migrate a MySQL database to Vitess

How to migrate a MySQL database to Vitess

March 20, 2020 5,261 views
Solving data-locality transparently using Vitess Geo-Sharding

Solving data-locality transparently using Vitess Geo-Sharding

Presented by: PlanetScale
November 11, 2019 657 views

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