vitess
A cloud-native distributed database system built around MySQL for unlimited horizontal scaling through sharding.
What is vitess?
Vitess is a cloud-native distributed database system built around MySQL that enables unlimited horizontal scaling through generalized sharding. It allows applications to remain agnostic to data distribution across multiple database servers while providing tools to split and merge shards as needs grow. Originally developed at YouTube to manage massive database infrastructure, it solves the problem of scaling MySQL databases for large-scale applications.
Engineering teams at companies with large-scale MySQL deployments needing horizontal scaling, database administrators managing sharded MySQL clusters, and developers building cloud-native applications requiring distributed database capabilities.
Vitess provides battle-tested, production-proven MySQL scaling without requiring application changes, offering atomic shard operations and transparent data distribution that has been validated by companies like YouTube, Slack, and Square at massive scale.
Overview
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
Use Cases
Best For
- Scaling MySQL databases beyond single-server limitations
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