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TigerBeetle

Financial transactions database designed for mission-critical safety and speed

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TigerBeetle is a purpose-built database for financial transactions that prioritizes safety and performance above all else. Written in Zig, it provides strict debit-credit consistency, serializable isolation, append-only immutability, and multi-cloud high availability. Designed for ledgers, payment systems, and any application where losing or duplicating a transaction is catastrophic.

TigerBeetle rethinks database design specifically for financial workloads where correctness is non-negotiable. The database enforces strict debit-credit balancing at the storage engine level, meaning it is physically impossible to create an unbalanced ledger entry. Strict serializability is the default isolation level rather than an opt-in mode, and the append-only storage model ensures that once a transaction is written it can never be modified or deleted, providing a complete audit trail by design.

Performance optimization focuses on the access patterns unique to financial systems. The storage engine uses cache-locality techniques that keep hot transaction data in CPU cache lines, achieving throughput that exceeds general-purpose databases by orders of magnitude for ledger operations. The Zig implementation provides deterministic memory management without garbage collection pauses, ensuring consistent low-latency even under sustained high load.

TigerBeetle supports multi-cloud high availability with consensus-based replication that tolerates node failures without data loss or inconsistency. Client libraries are available for multiple languages including Java, Go, .NET, Node.js, and Python. For fintech companies, payment processors, banks, and any application managing financial balances, TigerBeetle provides guarantees that no general-purpose database can match.

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Free and open-source; managed cloud service available

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Zig binary; Linux, macOS; client SDKs for Java, Go, .NET, Node.js, Python

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