maxenglander

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by maxenglander 1y ago
It's a reasonable question. I think it's too early days for us to be able to provide a feature-by-feature breakdown of PlanetScale Postgres vs. Aurora/RDS. Our stated mission on day 1 (today) is to be the fastest and most rel
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by maxenglander 1y ago
In addition to the point about performance Sam made, PlanetScale's Vitess (MySQL) offers out-of-the-box horizontal scalability, which means we can maintain extremely good performance as your dataset and QPS grows to a massive scale: h
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by maxenglander 1y ago
> instead of emphasizing how they just couldn't scale past their previous limits. We are not saying that our customers don't have the knowledge or expertise to do what we do. Many of our customers, including the ones mentioned
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by maxenglander 1y ago
There are a lot of differences between Aurora/RDS and PlanetScale I could talk about, some but I'll point to just one for now: PlanetScale offers Metal databases, which means blazing fast NVMe drives attached directly to the host
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by maxenglander 1y ago
People can disagree with the claims of course, but I don't think they are baseless. On the Postgres side: https://planetscale.com/blog/benchmarking-postgres On the Vitess side, I would point to our customers, who,
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by maxenglander 1y ago
Hi n_u, When we say ephemeral we mean that if the host compute dies in a permanent way (which happens from time to time) the data on the NVMe drives attached to that host is not recoverable by us. AWS/GCP might have recovery mechanisms
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by maxenglander 1y ago
Hi n_u, PlanetScale engineer here, I'm going to just address just the point about durability via replication. I can't speak to what you've seen with other distributed systems, but, at PlanetScale, we don't do replication