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GenieDB vs PlanetScaleDB

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Overview

GenieDB
GenieDB
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PlanetScaleDB
PlanetScaleDB
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GenieDB vs PlanetScaleDB: What are the differences?

GenieDB: Multi-master, multi-cloud, geo-distributed MySQL database. GenieDB’s DBaaS uses multi-master replication and multi-regional distribution on multiple cloud infrastructures (Amazon AWS, IBM Softlayer, DigitalOcean, Rackspace Cloud, and Google Cloud) to help reduce latency, eliminate downtime, and easily scale your database; PlanetScaleDB: A fully managed cloud native database-as-a-service. It is a fully managed cloud native database-as-a-service built on Vitess and Kubernetes. Effortlessly deploy, manage, and monitor your databases in multiple regions and across cloud providers.

GenieDB and PlanetScaleDB can be primarily classified as "SQL Database as a Service" tools.

Some of the features offered by GenieDB are:

  • Multi-master replication with auto-conflict resolution
  • Geo-distribution across multiple regions and cloud providers using eventual consistency model with geo-compliance
  • Auto-recovery and healing with re-synchronization

On the other hand, PlanetScaleDB provides the following key features:

  • Cloud-native database
  • No More “Query of Death”
  • No Vendor Lock-In

Detailed Comparison

GenieDB
GenieDB
PlanetScaleDB
PlanetScaleDB

GenieDB’s DBaaS uses multi-master replication and multi-regional distribution on multiple cloud infrastructures (Amazon AWS, IBM Softlayer, DigitalOcean, Rackspace Cloud, and Google Cloud) to help reduce latency, eliminate downtime, and easily scale your database.

It is a fully managed cloud native database-as-a-service built on Vitess and Kubernetes. A MySQL compatible highly scalable database. Effortlessly deploy, manage, and monitor your databases in multiple regions and across cloud providers.

Multi-master replication with auto-conflict resolution; Geo-distribution across multiple regions and cloud providers using eventual consistency model with geo-compliance; Auto-recovery and healing with re-synchronization; Data security using industry standard SSL encryption and firewall; Elastic scaling by adding new nodes/clusters or by increasing capacity on existing servers; Rapid database provisioning across multiple cloud providers and regions; Easy MySQL migration that supports MySQL dump
Cloud-native database; MySQL Compatible; Branching; Sharding; Non-blocking schema changes; No Vendor Lock-In
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Kubernetes
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Prisma
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Vercel
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What are some alternatives to GenieDB, PlanetScaleDB?

Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS gives you access to the capabilities of a familiar MySQL, Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server database engine. This means that the code, applications, and tools you already use today with your existing databases can be used with Amazon RDS. Amazon RDS automatically patches the database software and backs up your database, storing the backups for a user-defined retention period and enabling point-in-time recovery. You benefit from the flexibility of being able to scale the compute resources or storage capacity associated with your Database Instance (DB Instance) via a single API call.

Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible, relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. Amazon Aurora provides up to five times better performance than MySQL at a price point one tenth that of a commercial database while delivering similar performance and availability.

Google Cloud SQL

Google Cloud SQL

Run the same relational databases you know with their rich extension collections, configuration flags and developer ecosystem, but without the hassle of self management.

ClearDB

ClearDB

ClearDB uses a combination of advanced replication techniques, advanced cluster technology, and layered web services to provide you with a MySQL database that is "smarter" than usual.

Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database

It is the intelligent, scalable, cloud database service that provides the broadest SQL Server engine compatibility and up to a 212% return on investment. It is a database service that can quickly and efficiently scale to meet demand, is automatically highly available, and supports a variety of third party software.

Cloud DB for Mysql

Cloud DB for Mysql

It is a fully managed cloud cache service that enables you to easily configure a MySQL database with a few settings and clicks and operate it reliably with NAVER's optimization settings, and that automatically recovers from failures.

DigitalOcean Managed Databases

DigitalOcean Managed Databases

Build apps and store data in minutes with easy access to one or more databases and sleep better knowing your data is backed up and optimized.

Azure Database for MySQL

Azure Database for MySQL

Azure Database for MySQL provides a managed database service for app development and deployment that allows you to stand up a MySQL database in minutes and scale on the fly – on the cloud you trust most.

Books

Books

It is an immutable double-entry accounting database service. It supports many clients and businesses at global scale, leaning on Google Cloud Spanner and Google Kubernetes Engine to make that possible.

Aiven

Aiven

A fully-managed and hosted database as a service (DBaaS) that provides enterprises of every size access to secure and scalable open-source database and messaging services on all major clouds across the globe.

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