# Cloud Native Databases

> Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Optimly AI Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-10-04.

- **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/cloud-native-databases
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/cloud-native-databases.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/cloud-native-databases/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://vitess.io
- **Slug:** cloud-native-databases
- **Categories:** developer-tools, it-management-software

## Overview

- **Tagline:** Provides seamless, transparent MySQL sharding with native MySQL compatibility, high performance, and advanced operational features like online schema changes and automatic failover, specifically designed for cloud-native deployments.
Source: Brand's website (https://vitess.io) · 2026-10-04

- **Description:** Vitess is a cloud-native database system that scales MySQL for large web services. It combines the horizontal sharding capabilities of a NoSQL database with the ACID properties and SQL querying of MySQL, offering scalability, performance, and high availability without changing application logic. It is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) graduated project.
Source: Brand's website (https://vitess.io) · 2026-10-04

## Offerings

- **Core capabilities:** Vitess (a database clustering system/proxy for MySQL)
Source: Brand's website (https://vitess.io) · 2026-10-04

- **Pricing:** Open Source (as a CNCF graduated project)
Source: Brand's website (https://vitess.io) · 2026-10-04

## Audience

- **Target industry:** Large enterprises and web services requiring highly scalable, available, and performant MySQL databases, especially those operating in cloud-native environments (e.g., Kubernetes). Developers and operations teams facing MySQL scaling limits.
Source: Brand's website (https://vitess.io) · 2026-10-04

## Landscape

- **Competitors:**
  - TiDB
  - CockroachDB
  - Google Cloud Spanner
  - YugabyteDB
Source: Brand's website (https://vitess.io) · 2026-10-04

Page last updated 2026-10-17.