# radondb/radon

RadonDB is an open source, cloud-native MySQL database for building global, scalable cloud services

Repository: https://github.com/radondb/radon
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/radondb-radon
Homepage: https://radondb.io/
Language: Go
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: go, sql, database, distributed-database, radondb, full-text-search, distributed-transaction, json, transaction, cloud-native-database, oltp, olap, mysql-protocol
Last push: 2022-06-22T07:05:16+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3150, "days_push": 1533, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1794, forks 219 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:37.329798+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: service
- maturity: maintenance
- function: database, search-engine, json
- domain: databases, microservices, cloud-computing, backend
- platform: go, cloud, self-hosted
- tags: mysql-protocol, distributed-database, sharding, distributed-transactions, oltp, olap, cloud-native, scale-out, full-text-search, newsql, linux, docker

## Member repositories
- radondb/radon (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:37.329798+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 2026-08-30T03:22:55.169114+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/radondb/radon (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:37.329798+00:00, sha fd457c8f6423)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.