Release often
Aim for small, regular releases that are easy to adopt.
Open systems engineering
Built in the open. Released when ready.
Chroniton Labs is an open engineering lab building practical ways forward for distributed data and streaming systems.
01 / Why Chroniton
Good systems keep moving, with the communities that built them.
Mature infrastructure earns trust through stability and careful review. Some operators also want to try new fixes and ideas early. Chroniton Labs gives them that choice: a focused place where the work is built, measured, and released.
Our work stays open and compatibility-minded. AxonOps is the steward, and offers support for organisations that need a vendor. The work happens in public, and anyone can take part.
02 / Projects
Built for the long run.
01In formation
Distributed database
ChronitonDB
Built on Apache Cassandra®, adding fixes and features, released on its own schedule.
02Early development
Streaming platform
ChronitonMQ
A message broker written in Rust that works with Apache Kafka® clients, built for high throughput, low latency, and cloud-native storage.
03Production ready
Developer tool
CQLAI
A fast, portable CQL shell with a rich terminal interface, cqlsh compatibility, and optional AI assistance. Moving to Chroniton Labs soon.
04Production ready
Desktop application
CQL Workbench
A free, cross-platform desktop environment for Apache Cassandra with CQL development, query tracing, secure connections, and local clusters. Moving to Chroniton Labs soon.
Announcement
Introducing Chroniton Labs and ChronitonDB
Why we started Chroniton Labs, what ChronitonDB is, how it stays close to Apache Cassandra, and how you can be part of it.
Read the note03 / How we work
Read our principlesTest what we change
Add regression tests, cover new paths, and test failures as carefully as successful operation.
Offer our changes upstream
Use our branches to prove the work, then offer it back to its source Apache project.
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