What is Vitess?
Vitess is a MySQL-compatible database that extends scalability through built-in sharding and improves performance via query rewriting, caching, and connection pooling. It provides automatic failure detection and repair for high availability.
What Vitess does
The capabilities that matter for relational databases, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- SQL model
- Full SQL
- ACID transactions
- -
- Highest isolation level
- -
- Consistency
- -
- Horizontal scale
- Sharded
- Replication
- -
- Automatic failover / HA
- ✓
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Serverless / scale-to-zero
- -
- Wire compatibility
- MySQL protocol
- Extensions / plugins / UDFs
- -
- Licence class
- -
- JSON / document support
- -
- Geo / spatial
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Self-hosted
Security & compliance
Known vulnerabilities: 5 (2 in the last 12 months), max severity CRITICAL sourcea count reflects scale & disclosure, not quality
Vitess alternatives
Other relational databases we track, ranked by the same independent score.
Compare Vitess
Side by side against other relational databases, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Vitess, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Release cadence | 97 | 0.08 | 7.8 | ✓ |
| Development activity | 57 | 0.14 | 7.6 | ✓ |
| Security score | 80 | 0.05 | 4.3 | ✓ |
| Stars | 82 | 0.05 | 3.8 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 29 | 0.08 | 2.3 | ✓ |
| Dependent projects | 40 | 0.05 | 2.1 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.12 | 0.0 | - |
| Package downloads | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
| Developer Q&A activity | 0 | 0.14 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 62 | mediumsource · 2026-08-26 · 65% |
Adoption
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Sql model: full_sql · Deployment: self_hosted · Horizontal scale: sharded · Automatic failover: Yes · Wire compatibility: mysql | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Go | highsource · 2026-08-26 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | Apache-2.0 | highsource · 2026-08-26 · 95% |