Open source distributed-systems projects

Every project in the registry tagged distributed-systems, ranked by real GitHub adoption.

projects 35 combined stars ★ 372K refresh nightly
01 etcd ★ 52K

Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system

last push10 hours ago languageGo licenseApache-2.0
02 Spacedrive ★ 39K

Your personal distributed filesystem

last push3 days ago languageRust licenseApache-2.0
03 conductor ★ 32K

Conductor is an event driven agentic workflow engine providing durable and highly resilient execution engine for applications and AI Agents

last push10 hours ago languageJava licenseApache-2.0
04 dapr ★ 26K

Dapr is a portable runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge, combining event-driven architecture with workflow orchestration.

last push8 hours ago languageGo licenseApache-2.0
05 Temporal ★ 24K

Build resilient applications with durable execution workflows

last push8 hours ago languageGo licenseMIT
06 nats-server ★ 21K

High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system.

last push10 hours ago languageGo licenseApache-2.0
07 rqlite ★ 18K

The lightweight, fault-tolerant database built on SQLite. Designed to keep your data highly available with minimal effort.

last push16 hours ago languageGo licenseMIT
08 juicefs ★ 15K

JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3.

last push26 hours ago languageGo licenseApache-2.0
09 trino ★ 13K

Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, formerly known as PrestoSQL (https://trino.io)

last push8 hours ago languageJava licenseApache-2.0
10 zookeeper ★ 13K

Apache ZooKeeper

last push11 hours ago languageJava licenseApache-2.0
11 Encore ★ 13K

Accelerate backend development with effortless scalability

last push5 days ago languageGo licenseMPL-2.0
12 nebula ★ 12K

A distributed, fast open-source graph database featuring horizontal scalability and high availability

last push2 months ago languageC++ licenseApache-2.0
13 cadence ★ 9.5K

Cadence is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available orchestration engine to execute asynchronous long-running business logic in a scalable and res

last push3 days ago languageGo licenseApache-2.0
14 finagle ★ 8.9K

A fault tolerant, protocol-agnostic RPC system

last push3 months ago languageScala licenseApache-2.0
15 Hatchet ★ 8.2K

Distributed task queue for background jobs and workflows

last push8 hours ago languageGo licenseMIT
16 realtime ★ 7.7K

Broadcast, Presence, and Postgres Changes via WebSockets

last push9 hours ago languageElixir licenseApache-2.0
17 spicedb ★ 7.2K

Open Source, Google Zanzibar-inspired database for scalably storing and querying fine-grained authorization data

last push33 hours ago languageGo licenseApache-2.0
18 easegress ★ 5.9K

A Cloud Native traffic orchestration system. (CNCF Project)

last push21 days ago languageGo licenseApache-2.0
19 faststream ★ 5.4K

Asynchronous Python framework for event-driven services. A thin client for Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, Redis and MQTT with full access to native broker features, plu

last push8 hours ago languagePython licenseApache-2.0
20 fluvio ★ 5.3K

🦀 event stream processing for developers to collect and transform data in motion to power responsive data intensive applications.

last push21 hours ago languageRust licenseApache-2.0
21 tau ★ 5.2K

Fullstack Workspace for Humans & Machines

last push36 hours ago languageGo licenseBSD-3-Clause
22 ergo ★ 4.7K

An actor-based Framework with network transparency for creating event-driven architecture in Golang. Inspired by Erlang. Zero dependencies.

last push7 days ago languageGo licenseMIT
23 olric ★ 3.5K

Distributed, in-memory key/value store and cache. It can be used as an embedded Go library and a language-independent service.

last push2 months ago languageGo licenseApache-2.0
24 peerdb ★ 3.3K

Fast, Simple and a cost effective tool to replicate data from Postgres to Data Warehouses, Queues and Storage

last push8 hours ago languageGo licenseAGPL-3.0
25 Storj ★ 3.3K

Secure, decentralized cloud storage for your data

last push13 hours ago languageGo licenseAGPL-3.0
26 service-fabric ★ 3.1K

Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform for packaging, deploying, and managing stateless and stateful distributed applications and containers at large

last push8 hours ago language— licenseMIT
27 Foundatio ★ 2.1K

Pluggable foundation blocks for building distributed apps.

last push5 days ago languageC# licenseApache-2.0
28 matrixone ★ 2.1K

AI-native HTAP database with Git-for-Data and built-in vector search, serving as the data and memory backbone for intelligent agents and applications.

last push8 hours ago languageGo licenseApache-2.0
29 genie ★ 1.8K

Distributed Big Data Orchestration Service

last push2 days ago languageJava licenseApache-2.0
30 node ★ 1.4K

Mysterium Network Node - official implementation of distributed VPN network (dVPN) protocol

last push6 days ago languageGo licenseGPL-3.0
31 sensu-go ★ 1.1K

Simple. Scalable. Multi-cloud monitoring.

last push2 days ago languageGo licenseMIT
32 due ★ 981

基于Go语言开发的高性能分布式游戏服务器框架

last push17 hours ago languageGo licenseMIT
33 scalecube-services ★ 639

Microservices library - scalecube-services is a high throughput, low latency reactive microservices library built to scale. It features: API-Gateways, service-d

last push6 days ago languageJava licenseApache-2.0
34 kurtosis ★ 557

A platform for packaging and launching blockchain infra. Think docker compose for blockchain

last push19 hours ago languageGo licenseApache-2.0
35 NoKV ★ 510

The State Layer of Agent Sandbox

last push18 hours ago languageRust licenseApache-2.0

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Frequently asked questions

How many open source distributed-systems projects are there?

This registry tracks 35 projects tagged distributed-systems, with 371,569 GitHub stars between them. The most-adopted is etcd at 52,441 stars.

Are these distributed-systems projects free to use?

Yes — 35 of the 35 carry an explicit open-source licence across 6 distinct licences, so there is no licence fee. Where a project also sells a hosted or enterprise version, the self-hosted path remains free.

Which distributed-systems project should I choose?

The list above is ranked by GitHub stars, but stars measure attention rather than fit. Check three things on each card: the licence (permissive versus copyleft), the language it is written in, and the last-push date — a high-star project that has not been pushed in a year is a liability.

Are these distributed-systems projects still maintained?

35 of the 35 were pushed in the last 90 days, and every card shows its exact last-push date so you can see the rest. Sort your shortlist by that date before committing to a migration.