10 alternatives to etcd

etcd-io/etcd — Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system (52,412 stars, Apache-2.0, database, integration, infra).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 611 licence-cleared components from etcd-io/etcd itself.

The alternatives in detail

• rqlite/rqlite
  The lightweight, fault-tolerant database built on SQLite. Designed to keep your data highly available with minimal effort.
  score 7.7/10 · MIT permissive · 17,867 stars · 173 components · search them
• kubernetes/kubernetes
  Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
  score 7.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 128,584 stars · 3,000 components · search them · alternatives
• tikv/tikv
  Distributed transactional key-value database, originally created to complement TiDB
  score 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 16,928 stars · 988 components · search them
• dgraph-io/badger
  Fast key-value DB in Go.
  score 6.9/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 15,789 stars · 66 components · search them
• icefiredb/icefiredb
  @IceFireLabs -> IceFireDB is a database built for web3.0 It strives to fill the gap between web2 and web3.0 with a friendly database experience, making web3 application data storage more convenient, and making it easier
  score 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 1,160 stars · 186 components · search them
• artifacthub/hub
  Find, install and publish Cloud Native packages
  score 5.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 2,114 stars · 393 components · search them
• longhorn/longhorn
  Cloud-Native distributed storage built on and for Kubernetes
  score 4.4/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 8,043 stars · 19 components · search them
• akrylysov/pogreb
  Embedded key-value store for read-heavy workloads written in Go
  score 4.6/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1,354 stars · 26 components · search them
• bytedance/infinistore
  KV cache store for distributed LLM inference
  score 4.5/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 449 stars · 23 components · search them
• apache/shardingsphere
  Empowering Data Intelligence with Distributed SQL for Sharding, Scalability, and Security Across All Databases.
  score 4.9/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 20,813 stars · 3,000 components · search them

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