Eclipse Cyclone DDS
- Software
- Middleware
- Library
Eclipse Cyclone DDS is an open-source, high-performance implementation of the OMG DDS publish-subscribe middleware, used as a default middleware for ROS 2.
Made by Eclipse Foundation.
Source on GitHub: github.com/eclipse-cyclonedds/cyclonedds (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 6495609 (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- EPL-2.0 (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (EPL-2.0) at commit 6495609 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Implements the OMG DDS specification, including discovery, publish/subscribe messaging and many QoS settings.
- Covers DDS Security for authentication, access control and encryption, plus the XTypes type system and the RTPS network protocol.
- Provides a C API; the C++ and Python language bindings live in sibling repositories.
- Can be built with CMake on Linux, macOS and Windows, with optional OpenSSL and Eclipse Iceoryx support.
- Offers an IDL compiler and a run-time configuration through an XML file set by the CYCLONEDDS_URI variable.
- Includes a roundtrip latency example and the ddsperf performance tool, with reported throughput and latency figures.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 6495609.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- Hardware it needs, as the project states it
- Optional OpenSSL and Eclipse Iceoryx 2.0.
- How to start
- The project's website (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Active: a commit in the last 90 days
- Newest commit
- 16 Oct 2026 on master
- Latest release
- 11.0.1 (Marche des "Davidsbündler" contre les Philistins) (20 Mar 2026)
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
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