# electric-sql/electric

The agent platform built on sync.

Repository: https://github.com/electric-sql/electric
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/electric
Homepage: https://electric.ax
Language: TypeScript
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: elixir, postgres, crdts, crdt, replication, sync, agent, agents, data, platform, runtime
Last push: 2026-08-26T15:04:39+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 86, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1554, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 12, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 720}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 10339, forks 371 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:41.701799+00:00)

## What it is
Electric is a real-time read-path sync engine for Postgres that replicates data into clients via a low-level HTTP API with partial replication using Shapes. It handles fan-out, data delivery, and CDN integration so apps and AI agents can work on live local data.

## Use cases
- sync postgres data to frontend apps in real time
- build collaborative apps with live local data
- give AI agents access to live local data
- scale data delivery to many clients via CDN
- avoid building custom sync infrastructure
- partially replicate subsets of a postgres database to clients

## When to choose
- you need real-time read-path sync out of Postgres without writing your own sync engine
- you want partial replication of specific data shapes to clients
- you need highly scalable fan-out of database changes
- you are building local-first or agent-based apps on live data

## When to avoid
- you need bidirectional write sync back into Postgres
- your source database is not Postgres
- you only need simple request/response queries without live updates

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: database, streaming, api-framework, http-server, caching
- domain: databases, web-development, microservices
- platform: elixir, self-hosted, cloud
- tags: postgres-sync, partial-replication, shapes, read-path-sync, cdn-integration, crdt, real-time-data, local-first, real-time, ai-agents, docker, web-server

## Member repositories
- electric-sql/electric (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:41.701799+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:19:08.632003+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/electric-sql/electric (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:41.701799+00:00, sha ac7000faeb18)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.