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Product · SynxDB CE

A portable binary distribution of Apache Cloudberry (Incubating). Free, open, installable.

Apache Cloudberry ships source tarballs. SynxDB CE ships the binaries. One RPM or DEB, glibc as the only dependency, installs on every mainstream Linux distro.

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What it is

Build once, run on any Linux.

Apache Cloudberry (Incubating) is a Postgres-compatible MPP analytical database with a fast-growing community. Like many Apache projects, its official releases are source tarballs — exactly right for ASF governance, but leaving a gap for the people who actually want to run it.

SynxDB CE closes that gap. We bundle the entire toolchain, target glibc 2.17 as the ABI floor, vendor every third-party library through a Conan 2.x DAG, and package the single binary tree as both RPM and DEB. One build, two artifacts, every mainstream distro.

Supported platforms

Three tested. Many compatible.

v1 is install-and-smoke-tested on these three. Anything with glibc ≥ 2.17 should work — we'll extend the tested matrix in v2.

Distribution glibc Package v1 status
Rocky Linux 8 2.28 RPM Tested
Rocky Linux 9 2.34 RPM Tested
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 2.35 DEB Tested

Compatible by glibc — not yet in the v1 tested matrix

  • RHEL 8 / 9
  • Oracle Linux 8 / 9
  • AlmaLinux 8 / 9
  • Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
  • Debian 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise 15

Binaries are linked against glibc 2.17, so any distro with glibc ≥ 2.17 should run the same artifact. We're expanding the tested CI matrix in v2 — file an issue if you try one of these and hit trouble.

How to install

One command, any distro.

Download the package. Install with your distro's package manager. That's it.

Rocky 8 / 9 · RHEL · Oracle

RPM via dnf

sudo dnf install -y \
  https://packages.synxdata.com/\
synxdb-ce/rpm/synxdb-ce-latest.rpm

Ubuntu 22.04 · Debian

DEB via apt

curl -fsSL https://packages.synxdata.com/\
synxdb-ce/deb/synxdb-ce-latest.deb \
  -o synxdb-ce.deb
sudo apt install -y ./synxdb-ce.deb

Any glibc ≥ 2.17

Generic tarball

curl -fsSL https://packages.synxdata.com/\
synxdb-ce/tarball/synxdb-ce-latest.tar.gz \
  | tar -xz -C /opt/

v1 download URLs go live on 2026-04-30 with the CE launch. Sign up below to be notified when they do.

What's inside

The full Cloudberry engine. Packaged to run.

Postgres-compatible MPP

The full Apache Cloudberry (Incubating) query engine — share-nothing parallelism, columnar execution, PostgreSQL wire protocol. Every driver that speaks Postgres, speaks SynxDB CE.

One binary tree, two packages

The same binaries are packaged as RPM and DEB from a single build. No per-distro rebuild, no per-distro divergence.

glibc as the only runtime dependency

OpenSSL, libhdfs3, ORC, Parquet, libgsasl, libftp — all vendored and linked privately. No "install 40 RPMs first." Just install the package.

Apache Cloudberry feature parity

Tracks upstream closely. What the community ships is what you get — no quiet proprietary forks, no feature gating.

CE vs upstream

Same engine. Shipped differently.

Apache Cloudberry (Incubating) releases source tarballs — exactly what the ASF charter requires. SynxDB CE adds the build, packaging, and testing on top so you can install and run without becoming a release engineer. Both are Apache-2.0 open source.

Apache Cloudberry (Incubating)

  • Official ASF source tarballs
  • Community-driven release cadence
  • You build it yourself — or find a distribution
  • 100% open source, Apache License 2.0

SynxDB CE

  • Signed RPM + DEB binaries
  • Tested install on Rocky 8/9 + Ubuntu 22.04
  • One-command install, glibc-only dependency
  • 100% open source, Apache License 2.0

CE vs SynxDB Cloud

Self-managed or managed. Same family.

CE is the community edition you run yourself — free forever. SynxDB Cloud is our managed, commercial offering on AWS. Pick the one that fits your team today; moving between them is a migration, not a rewrite.

SynxDB CE (free, self-managed)

  • Install on your own hardware or VMs
  • Single-node or DIY cluster
  • Community support
  • No managed backup, no UI, no SLA

SynxDB Cloud (commercial, managed)

  • Managed on AWS — we run it, you use it
  • Elastic scaling, S3-native storage
  • 24/7 enterprise support + SLAs
  • Web UI, automated backups, DR
Read about SynxDB Cloud →

Free download

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SynxDB CE is free to download and use under Apache 2.0. We ask for a little context so we can ship improvements in the direction our actual users need — and so we can tell you when v2 is out.

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  • We never share your email

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Form wiring lands with the CE v1 launch on 2026-04-30.

Trademark notice

Apache®, Apache Cloudberry, and the Apache feather logo are trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. Use of these marks does not imply endorsement by the ASF. Apache Cloudberry is currently undergoing incubation at the Apache Software Foundation.

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