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Galera Cluster vs Sqitch: What are the differences?
What is Galera Cluster? A Multi-Master Cluster based on synchronous replication for MySQL. It’s an easy-to-use, high-availability solution, which provides high system up-time, no data loss and scalability for future growth. You can Keep it up and running 24/7. Putting our expertise to use will help you avoid trial and error.
What is Sqitch? A database-native change management for framework-free development and dependable deployment. It is a standalone change management system with no opinions about your database engine, application framework, or development environment. Native scripting. Changes are implemented as scripts native to your selected database engine.
Galera Cluster belongs to "Database Cluster Management" category of the tech stack, while Sqitch can be primarily classified under "Database Tools".
Some of the features offered by Galera Cluster are:
- True Multi-master Read and write to any node at any time
- Synchronous Replication No slave lag, no data is lost at node crash
- Tightly Coupled All nodes hold the same state
On the other hand, Sqitch provides the following key features:
- Native scripting
- Dependency resolution
- Deployment integrity
Galera Cluster is an open source tool with 283 GitHub stars and 119 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Galera Cluster's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Galera Cluster
Pros of Sqitch
- Interacts with git super well2
- Native scripting1