Vitess deploys, scales and manages clusters of open-source SQL database instances. Currently, Vitess supports the MySQL, Percona and MariaDB databases.

  • MySQL and Percona
    • Vitess supports the core features of MySQL versions 5.6 to 8.0, with some limitations. 
    • Vitess also supports Percona Server for MySQL versions 5.6 to 8.0.
    • Please do note that with MySQL 5.6 reaching end of life in February 2021, it is recommended to deploy MySQL 5.7 and later.

  • MariaDB
    • Vitess supports the core features of MariaDB versions 10.0 to 10.3
    • Vitess does not yet support version 10.4 of MariaDB.