Distributed & Serverless SQL

Amazon Aurora

aws.amazon.com

Popular

AWS's cloud-native MySQL and Postgres-compatible database, including the serverless Aurora DSQL.

Neon

neondatabase/neon

Trending

Serverless Postgres with storage/compute separation, instant branching and scale-to-zero; now part of Databricks.

PlanetScale

planetscale.com

Managed MySQL (on Vitess) and Postgres platform known for performance, branching and safe schema changes.

CockroachDB

cockroachdb/cockroach

Postgres-compatible distributed SQL database built for resilience and multi-region consistency.

TiDB

pingcap/tidb

MySQL-compatible distributed SQL database with hybrid transactional and analytical (HTAP) processing.

YugabyteDB

yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Distributed SQL database that reuses the Postgres query layer for high compatibility.

Vitess

vitessio/vitess

CNCF clustering system for horizontally sharding MySQL, born at YouTube and run by PlanetScale.

Turso

tursodatabase/turso

Rising

In-process SQLite-compatible database rewritten in Rust, with async I/O, sync and a managed edge cloud.

Google Cloud Spanner

cloud.google.com

Google's globally distributed, strongly consistent SQL database with near-unlimited scale.