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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. PlanetScale

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Name

Description

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.29
Rank	#184	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

planetscale.com

Technical documentation

planetscale.com/docs

Developer

PlanetScale

Initial release

2020

Current release

GBase 8a

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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