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DBMS > PlanetScale vs. RisingWave vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison PlanetScale vs. RisingWave vs. SurrealDB

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NamePlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.05
Rank#180  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score0.75
Rank#214  Overall
#101  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#176  Overall
#30  Document stores
#16  Graph DBMS
Websiteplanetscale.comwww.risingwave.com/­databasesurrealdb.com
Technical documentationplanetscale.com/­docsdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperPlanetScaleRisingWave LabsSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release202020222022
Current release1.2, September 2023v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoRustRust
Server operating systemsDocker
Linux
macOS
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesStandard SQL-types and JSONyes
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 SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoproprietary syntaxUDFs in Python or Java
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID at shard levelnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesUsers and Rolesyes, based on authentication and database rules

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