radondb/radon

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1794 stars · 219 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

RadonDB is a cloud-native distributed MySQL-compatible database written in Go that provides automatic sharding, distributed transactions with snapshot isolation, and scale-out architecture using MySQL as the storage engine. It speaks the MySQL protocol and adds distributed joins, parallel query execution, and distributed full-text search on top of a sharded cluster.

Use cases

• scale a MySQL database horizontally beyond a single node
• run a MySQL-compatible database with automatic table sharding
• get distributed transactions with strong consistency on MySQL
• build a cloud-native OLTP database cluster
• shard large MySQL tables transparently to applications
• run distributed joins and parallel queries across shards
• add full-text search to a distributed MySQL setup

When to choose

• you need MySQL protocol compatibility with transparent scale-out sharding
• you want distributed transactions (snapshot isolation) across shards
• you need a self-hosted, cloud-native NewSQL database in Go
• your workload outgrows a single MySQL instance's capacity or throughput

When to avoid

• you need a simple single-node MySQL database without sharding
• you require the latest features or active development - the last release was mid-2022
• you want a fully managed database service
• you need PostgreSQL compatibility instead of MySQL

Facets

service · maturity maintenance

database search-engine json databases microservices cloud-computing backend go cloud self-hosted mysql-protocol distributed-database sharding distributed-transactions oltp olap cloud-native scale-out full-text-search newsql linux docker

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