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DBMS > PlanetScale vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison PlanetScale vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB vs. Valentina Server

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NamePlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websiteplanetscale.comwww.postgres-xl.orgswaydb.simer.auwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationplanetscale.com/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperPlanetScaleSimer PlahaParadigma Software
Initial release20202014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20181999
Current release10 R1, October 20185.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoCScala
Server operating systemsDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.yes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Kotlin
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoproprietary syntaxuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID at shard levelACID infoMVCCAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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