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What is TigerBeetle?

TigerBeetle is a distributed financial transactions database designed for mission-critical safety and performance to power the next 30 years of Online Transaction Processing (OLTP). Written in Zig, it delivers 1000x faster performance than traditional databases while maintaining strict serializability and indestructible durability.

            🚀 Why Latest Versions Matter: TigerBeetle releases weekly with continuous improvements to performance, safety, and features. The latest versions include protocol optimizations, enhanced fault tolerance, and critical bug fixes that ensure your financial transactions are processed correctly and efficiently.
        

⚡ Key Features of TigerBeetle

🚀 1000x Faster OLTP

Purpose-built for transaction processing with 100K-500K TPS throughput and predictable low P100 latency. Executes thousands of transactions in a single query with zero lock contention.

💰 Debit/Credit Strict Consistency

Enforces double-entry accounting with strict serializability by default. Every debit has an equal and opposite credit, guaranteed by the database with no anomalies or caveats.

☁️ Multi-Cloud High Availability

Runs across AWS, GCP, and Azure simultaneously with Viewstamped Replication (VSR) consensus. Automated failover and flexible quorums ensure uninterrupted transaction processing.

🛡️ Indestructible Durability

Replicated write-ahead log with end-to-end 128-bit checksums and protocol-aware recovery. Survives disk corruption, misdirected I/O, and even helical fault injection.

🎯 Universal Schema

Debit/credit model with accounts and transfers provides a minimal and complete schema for any exchange of value across any domain - from banking to gaming to energy.

🔬 Extreme Engineering

TigerStyle methodology applies NASA's Power of 10 Rules with static allocation and 6,000+ assertion tripwires. Deterministic simulation testing runs 2000 years of faults every 24 hours.

📊 Performance Benchmarks

100K-500K TPS: Sustained throughput under 90% contention
100ms P100 Latency: Predictable tail latencies at peak load
100B+ Transactions: Store billions in one cluster with tiered storage
1B+ Accounts: Scale to billions of accounts with 20+ indexes
6 Replicas: Replicated, never partitioned for maximum consistency

🆕 What's New in TigerBeetle 0.16.60

Production Ready: Battle-tested in production with Apache 2.0 open source license
Weekly Releases: Continuous improvements with automated testing and deployment
Jepsen Verified: First database to withstand helical disk fault injection
Multi-Language Support: Seamless integration with Python, Java, Node.js, .NET, Go
Flexible Quorums: 3/6 replication, 4/6 election for improved availability
Protocol-Aware Recovery: Automatic WAL repair using consensus redundancy

📦 Installation from debian.griffo.io

Step 1: Add Repository

curl -sS https://debian.griffo.io/EA0F721D231FDD3A0A17B9AC7808B4DD62C41256.asc | sudo gpg --dearmor --yes -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/debian.griffo.io.gpg
echo "deb https://debian.griffo.io/apt $(lsb_release -sc 2>/dev/null) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.griffo.io.list
sudo apt update
                

curl -sS https://debian.griffo.io/EA0F721D231FDD3A0A17B9AC7808B4DD62C41256.asc | gpg --dearmor --yes -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/debian.griffo.io.gpg
echo "deb https://debian.griffo.io/apt $(lsb_release -sc 2>/dev/null) main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.griffo.io.list
apt update
                

Step 2: Install TigerBeetle

# Install latest TigerBeetle
sudo apt install tigerbeetle

# Verify installation
tigerbeetle version
                

# Install latest TigerBeetle
apt install tigerbeetle

# Verify installation
tigerbeetle version
                

🎯 Quick Start Example

Create and start a TigerBeetle cluster:

# Format a data file for replica 0
tigerbeetle format --cluster=0 --replica=0 --replica-count=1 0_0.tigerbeetle

# Start the replica
tigerbeetle start --addresses=3000 0_0.tigerbeetle
        

Basic usage with Node.js client:

const { createClient } = require('tigerbeetle-node');

const client = createClient({
  cluster_id: 0n,
  replica_addresses: ['3000']
});

// Create accounts
const accounts = [{
  id: 1n,
  ledger: 1,
  code: 1,
  flags: 0,
}];

await client.createAccounts(accounts);

// Create transfers
const transfers = [{
  id: 1n,
  debit_account_id: 1n,
  credit_account_id: 2n,
  amount: 100n,
  ledger: 1,
  code: 1,
}];

await client.createTransfers(transfers);
        

🚀 Why Choose debian.griffo.io?

📊 Repository Comparison:

Official Debian: TigerBeetle not available in official repositories
Manual Download: Weekly releases require manual updates
Docker Only: Limited to containerized deployments
debian.griffo.io: Latest version (0.16.60+) with automatic updates

✅ Latest Performance: Get newest optimizations and features immediately
✅ Weekly Updates: Packages updated within hours of upstream releases
✅ Native Installation: No Docker required, runs directly on Debian
✅ Production Ready: Battle-tested with Apache 2.0 license
✅ Multi-Distribution: Works on Bookworm, Trixie, and Sid
✅ Easy Maintenance: Standard apt commands for updates

📦 Package Build Repository

The Debian packages are automatically built and maintained in this GitHub repository:

🐯 tigerbeetle-debian - Latest release builds

🔗 Related Packages

Also available from debian.griffo.io:

Zig Programming Language - TigerBeetle is written in Zig
ZLS Language Server - For Zig development
lazydocker - Docker management tool

            🎯 Perfect for: Financial services building payment systems, fintech companies needing ledger infrastructure, gaming platforms with virtual economies, energy companies managing smart meter transactions, and any application requiring strict consistency and extreme performance for financial transactions.
        

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