Java distributed-database

Open-source Java projects categorized as distributed-database

Top 9 Java distributed-database Projects

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  1. 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 | 2025-02-21

    View the Project on GitHub

  2. 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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  3. Apache ZooKeeper

    Apache ZooKeeper

    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

  4. Trino

    Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, former

    Project mention: Gravitino - the unified metadata lake | dev.to | 2025-08-11

    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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. scalardb

    Universal HTAP Engine

  8. herddb

    A JVM-embeddable Distributed Database

  9. Sevalla

    Deploy and host your apps and databases, now with $50 credit! Sevalla is the PaaS you have been looking for! Advanced deployment pipelines, usage-based pricing, preview apps, templates, human support by developers, and much more!

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  10. 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
  11. Serengeti

    Serengeti - The Autonomous Distributed Database

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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  • Kronotop v0.12.0 – Scalable, transactional doc DB with query predicates

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jul 2025
  • Kronotop: Horizontally scalable, distributed, transactional document database

    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Apr 2025
  • Apache ShardingSphere: Effortless Database Scaling and Beyond!

    1 project | dev.to | 21 Feb 2025
  • SurrealDB 1.0

    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Oct 2023
  • Managing Data Residency - the demo

    3 projects | dev.to | 25 May 2023
  • Analysing Github Stars - Extracting and analyzing data from Github using Apache NiFi®, Apache Kafka® and Apache Druid®

    8 projects | dev.to | 11 Jan 2023
  • ShardingSphere 5.3.0 is released: new features and improvements

    5 projects | dev.to | 11 Dec 2022
  • A note from our sponsor - Sevalla
    sevalla.com | 1 Sep 2025
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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
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

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