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Vitess

AI-Assisted Middleware

Vitess is a middleware layer for scaling out MySQL.

Website
https://vitess.io[01]
Source Code
https://github.com/vitessio/vitess[02]
Tech Docs
https://vitess.io/docs/[03]
Twitter
@vitessio
Developer
Governance
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Country of Origin
US
Start Year
2011 [04]
Coding Agents
Project Type
Open Source
Written in
Go
Embeds / Uses
MySQL
Compatible With
MySQL
Operating System
Linux
License
Apache v2

Database Entry

Vitess

AI-Assisted Middleware

Vitess is a middleware layer for scaling out MySQL.

History

Vitess was first built at Youtube in 2011. It has since been spun out as a standalone open-source project in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Checkpoints

Fuzzy

Same as MySQL

Compression

Naïve (Page-Level)

Same as MySQL

Concurrency Control

Multi-version Concurrency Control (MVCC) Two-Phase Locking (Deadlock Detection)

Same as MySQL

Data Model

Relational

Same as MySQL

Foreign Keys

Supported

Same as MySQL

Indexes

B+Tree R-Tree Inverted Index (Full Text)

Same as MySQL

Isolation Levels

Read Uncommitted Read Committed Serializable Repeatable Read

Same as MySQL

Joins

Nested Loop Join

Same as MySQL

Logging

Physical Logging Physiological Logging

Same as MySQL

Query Compilation

Not Supported

Same as MySQL

Query Execution

Tuple-at-a-Time Model

Same as MySQL

Query Interface

SQL

Same as MySQL

Storage Architecture

Disk-oriented

Same as MySQL

Storage Model

N-ary Storage Model (Row/Record)

Same as MySQL

Storage Organization

Copy-on-Write / Shadow Paging

Same as MySQL

Stored Procedures

Supported

Same as MySQL

System Architecture

Shared-Nothing

Views

Virtual Views

Same as MySQL

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Citations

7 sources
  1. Vitess | Scalable. Reliable. MySQL-compatible. Cloud-native. Database. vitess.io
  2. GitHub - vitessio/vitess: Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL. · GitHub github.com
  3. Documentation vitess.io
  4. The Vitess Docs | What Is Vitess vitess.io
  5. https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/commit/a3c62e3ebe600949f16172552c16fe079aacc081 github.com
  6. https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/commit/d30e14900f0935e6aeab8cf392aff7918d6158e6 github.com
  7. https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/commit/0d44dd1ff3dce971a2eefeabed0687b654d1f93d github.com
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