Open source distributed-systems projects
Every project in the registry tagged distributed-systems, ranked by real GitHub adoption.
Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system
Your personal distributed filesystem
Conductor is an event driven agentic workflow engine providing durable and highly resilient execution engine for applications and AI Agents
Build resilient applications with durable execution workflows
JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3.
Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, formerly known as PrestoSQL (https://trino.io)
A distributed, fast open-source graph database featuring horizontal scalability and high availability
Accelerate backend development with effortless scalability
Cadence is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available orchestration engine to execute asynchronous long-running business logic in a scalable and res
Distributed task queue for background jobs and workflows
Broadcast, Presence, and Postgres Changes via WebSockets
A Cloud Native traffic orchestration system. (CNCF Project)
🦀 event stream processing for developers to collect and transform data in motion to power responsive data intensive applications.
Fullstack Workspace for Humans & Machines
An actor-based Framework with network transparency for creating event-driven architecture in Golang. Inspired by Erlang. Zero dependencies.
Secure, decentralized cloud storage for your data
Fast, Simple and a cost effective tool to replicate data from Postgres to Data Warehouses, Queues and Storage
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Frequently asked questions
How many open source distributed-systems projects are there?
This registry tracks 17 projects tagged distributed-systems, with 251,562 GitHub stars between them. The most-adopted is etcd at 52,270 stars.
Are these distributed-systems projects free to use?
Yes — 16 of the 17 carry an explicit open-source licence across 5 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?
17 of the 17 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.