# Marmot

10 Hacker News commenters recommended Marmot and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Recommended for a fast, simple single-binary server with MySQL wire compatibility and good replication, though critics say it lacks features and integrations like Airflow.

## Why people recommend it

- Fast, simple deployment (4 comments): "We gave it a proper deployment and were blown away by the speed but in the end we need a lot of features." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46132699)) "The key focus being on simplicity, in terms of both deployments and usability." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46122431)) "Marmot even right now is easier to spin up, plus it's leaderless." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46464463))
- Handles large data volumes (2 comments): "Marmot was the only thing that I was able to get to work with the amount of data I was pulling in." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46461405)) "My local benchmarks show pretty decent QPS with less than GB of RSS on DBpedia dataset." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088012))
- Replication and Debezium support (2 comments): "Marmot already supports debezium, so you can do way more than just basic S3 backups." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46464274)) "Marmot can give you better easy DDL and better replication guarantees." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46467755))

## What people warn about

- Missing features and integrations (2 comments): "We gave it a proper deployment and were blown away by the speed but in the end we need a lot of features." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46132699)) "What we missed on marmot was existing integrations with Airflow" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46122883))
- Looks AI-generated (2 comments): "AI probably generated the mysql thing, and OP just went with it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46462994)) "Looks like yet another AI generated project." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46462987))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [FoundationDB](https://hackerapproved.com/p/foundationdb.md): 26 recommend
- [CockroachDB](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cockroachdb.md): 19 recommend
- [rqlite](https://hackerapproved.com/p/rqlite.md): 13 recommend
- [Apache Cassandra](https://hackerapproved.com/p/apache-cassandra.md): 12 recommend
- [TiDB](https://hackerapproved.com/p/tidb.md): 11 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Marmot", https://hackerapproved.com/p/marmot/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).