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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. PlanetScale

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NameGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score1.00
Rank#180  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Websitegalaxybase.complanetscale.com
Technical documentationplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司PlanetScale
Initial release20172020
Current releaseNov 20, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and JavaGo
Server operating systemsLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeStrong typed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
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 infoStored proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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