Vitess Authors / CNCF
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL through sharding, designed to run in cloud-native environments.
At a Glance
- Hyper-scale tech companies
- Cloud-native enterprises
- SaaS providers
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Products & Services
Open-source database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL
Automates the deployment and management of Vitess clusters on Kubernetes
Market Position
Vitess combines the scalability of NoSQL with the reliability of MySQL, offering a clear path for sharding without application-level logic changes.
Leadership
Founders
Sugu Sougoumarane
Former Principal Engineer at YouTube/Google where he co-created Vitess; later co-founded PlanetScale.
Mike Solomon
Early engineer at YouTube/Google where he co-created Vitess.
Executive Team
Sugu Sougoumarane
Co-creator & Maintainer
Co-creator of Vitess at YouTube; Co-founder and CTO of PlanetScale; lead developer for much of the core engine.
Mike Solomon
Co-creator
Co-creator of Vitess at YouTube; early engineer at YouTube/Google.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Vitess was created at YouTube in 2010 to address the challenges of scaling its massive MySQL database infrastructure as it grew rapidly. It was later open-sourced and donated to the CNCF.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Open Source (Free); Commercial support and managed hosting via PlanetScale and other vendors.
Pricing Tiers
Community-supported software under Apache 2.0 license.
Commercial DBaaS offering based on Vitess.
Target Markets
- Hyper-scale tech companies
- Cloud-native enterprises
- SaaS providers
- Massive MySQL scaling
- Cloud-native database management
- High-concurrency web applications
- Multi-cloud database deployments
- YouTube
- Slack
- Square
- Shopify