CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
Distributed SQL databases
SQL databases that spread data across nodes and speak the PostgreSQL wire protocol.
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| Tool | Stars | Licence | Terms | Self-hosted | Language | Latest | Last push |
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| CockroachDB | 33k | Other | Source available | Yes | Go | v26.2.7 | 2026-10-03 |
| Apache ShardingSphere | 21k | Apache-2.0 | Open source | Yes | Java | 5.5.3 | 2026-10-06 |
| Citus | 13k | AGPL-3.0 | Open source | Yes | C | v14.2.0 | 2026-10-06 |
| YugabyteDB | 11k | Other | Open core | Yes | C | v2026.1.2.0 | 2026-10-06 |
| PgDog | 5.6k | AGPL-3.0 | Open source | Yes | Rust | v0.1.60 | 2026-10-06 |
| YDB | 4.8k | Apache-2.0 | Open source | Yes | C++ | 26.2.1.14 | 2026-10-06 |
| MatrixOne | 2k | Apache-2.0 | Open source | Yes | Go | v4.2.5 | 2026-10-06 |
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Empowering Data Intelligence with Distributed SQL for Sharding, Scalability, and Security Across All Databases.
- Language
- Java
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Stars
- 21k
- Latest
- 5.5.3
- Last push
- 2026-10-06
Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension
YugabyteDB - the cloud native distributed SQL database for mission-critical applications.
- Language
- C
- Licence
- Other
- Stars
- 11k
- Latest
- v2026.1.2.0
- Last push
- 2026-10-06
PostgreSQL connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder.
YDB is an open source Distributed SQL Database that combines high availability and scalability with strong consistency and ACID transactions
- Language
- C++
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Stars
- 4.8k
- Latest
- 26.2.1.14
- Last push
- 2026-10-06
AI-native HTAP database with Git-for-Data and built-in vector search, serving as the data and memory backbone for intelligent agents and applications.
- Language
- Go
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Stars
- 2k
- Latest
- v4.2.5
- Last push
- 2026-10-06