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Top 9 Java distributed-database Projects
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shardingsphere
Empowering Data Intelligence with Distributed SQL for Sharding, Scalability, and Security Across All Databases.
Project mention: Apache ShardingSphere: Effortless Database Scaling and Beyond! | dev.to | 2025-02-21View the Project on GitHub
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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Project mention: Reverse Proxy Deep Dive: The Hidden Complexity of Service Discovery | dev.to | 2025-07-30
ZooKeeper (classic choice for strongly consistent registries). Examples: Pinterest, Linkedin
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Gravitino supports different query engines to access the metadata. Currently, it supports Trino, users can use Trino to query the metadata and data without needing to change the existing SQL dialects.
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starrocks
The world's fastest open query engine for sub-second analytics both on and off the data lakehouse. With the flexibility to support nearly any scenario, StarRocks provides best-in-class performance for multi-dimensional analytics, real-time analytics, and ad-hoc queries. A Linux Foundation project.
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Crate
CrateDB is a distributed and scalable SQL database for storing and analyzing massive amounts of data in near real-time, even with complex queries. It is PostgreSQL-compatible, and based on Lucene.
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kronotop
Kronotop is a distributed document database that combines ACID transactions with simplicity at any scale.
Project mention: Kronotop v0.12.0 – Scalable, transactional doc DB with query predicates | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-08 -
Java distributed-database discussion
Java distributed-database related posts
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Kronotop v0.12.0 – Scalable, transactional doc DB with query predicates
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Kronotop: Horizontally scalable, distributed, transactional document database
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Apache ShardingSphere: Effortless Database Scaling and Beyond!
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SurrealDB 1.0
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Managing Data Residency - the demo
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Analysing Github Stars - Extracting and analyzing data from Github using Apache NiFi®, Apache Kafka® and Apache Druid®
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ShardingSphere 5.3.0 is released: new features and improvements
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Index
What are some of the best open-source distributed-database projects in Java? This list will help you:
# | Project | Stars |
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1 | shardingsphere | 20,434 |
2 | Apache ZooKeeper | 12,582 |
3 | Trino | 11,778 |
4 | starrocks | 10,552 |
5 | Crate | 4,288 |
6 | scalardb | 628 |
7 | herddb | 321 |
8 | kronotop | 275 |
9 | Serengeti | 5 |