PlanetScale makes it easy to build multi-cloud databases

PlanetScale makes it easy to build multi-cloud databases(techcrunch.com)

63 points by bjerun 7 years ago | 12 comments

bmdavi3 7 years ago |

I'm curious, how does Vitess compare to Citus?

On the surface, they sound similar except that MySQL instances back Vitess and PostgreSQL instances back Citus. Though I could very well be missing some fundamental differences.

manigandham 7 years ago | |

Vitess is a software suite that runs outside of MySQL while Citus runs within Postgres as an extension, so Vitess as more moving parts, but it also is better at handling more connections which has been a continual problem with PG in general.

Vitess supports more complicated sharding management (and requires more configuration) while Citus is simpler and lets you use all the flexibility of Postgres. Vitess has a more streamlined installation process (especially with Kubernetes) while Citus leaves it up to you to install the Postgres nodes.

Also note TiDB for a natively scalable MySQL-compatible database and CockroachDB for Postgres-compatible version.

dkhenry 7 years ago | |

I think the biggest difference other then the protocol is the tiered nature of vitess. Vitess has a different process that serves as the gateway and router while I believe Citis uses a plug-in inside postgres, and uses postgres to handle the connections.

Not knowing more about how Citus does it's sharding indexing I am sure there are differences there but I don't think I could explain them. Vitess has a very flexible and extendable sharding index that gives a lot of control over data locality to the user.

reimertz 7 years ago |

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anthonys 7 years ago | |

What's wrong with it being another WordPress site if it does the job?

biggestlou 7 years ago | |

The drawer could use some polish on mobile

jbrambleDC 7 years ago |

Exciting News. Jiten is an amazing person and an amazing engineer.

rzvme 7 years ago |

I can’t believe ordering by upload date in search doesn’t work. This hasn’t been working properly for at least a year or two. I don’t know before, but this is crazy

rconti 7 years ago |

Is their "brilliant relational data storage system" the reason that YouTube can never show me the same list of my own videos I've uploaded to my account? One device shows one list, another shows another list (with some overlap), and going into different views of channel editing cause the lists to turn into yet another list. Maddening, and it's been doing it for years.

manigandham 7 years ago | |

No, the Youtube infrastructure is rather impressive. It's the frontend UI/UX product that's crap.

sneakernets 7 years ago | |

The simple fact that you can't search in search results or even search through lists... I'm not asking for a million options, I just want to be able to find a video I remember the title of without having to go through a bunch of garbage.

yashap 7 years ago | |

I’m not a Googler, but sounds more like poorly done client side cacheing to me.