Apache Paimon vs PlanetScale
Apache Paimon
paimon.apache.org
PlanetScale
planetscale.comSide by side
| Figure | Apache Paimon | PlanetScale |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $5/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 4 |
| Spec score · Data Version Control Tools | 9.0 (#2) | 7.6 (#24) |
| Support | The project directs users to its user mailing list and GitHub issue tracker for help and issue reporting. | Enterprise plans include business-level support, and customers can optionally purchase Enterprise support with direct Slack access to support engineers. |
Plans
PlanetScale
- Base — PlanetScale Postgres single node$5 a month
- Base — PlanetScale Postgres Metal$50 a month
- Base — Vitess, Neki, and other configurationsPrice not published
- EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
Apache Paimon
Apache Paimon is a lake format for realtime lakehouse architectures, supporting streaming and batch operations with Flink and Spark. Primary-key tables handle large-scale streaming updates through configurable merge engines, including deduplication, partial updates, aggregation, and first-row updates. Append tables support batch and streaming processing, small-file merging, and compaction with Z-order sorting. Paimon also provides ACID transactions, time travel, schema evolution, and metadata for petabyte-scale datasets and many partitions. Listed integrations include Flink, Spark, Hive, Trino, Presto, StarRocks, and Doris, though supported operations vary by engine and version. Documented CDC sources include MySQL, PostgreSQL, Kafka, MongoDB, and Pulsar. Other capabilities include blob and vector storage, full-text search, and global indexing. PyPaimon provides catalog, table, Arrow, and pandas APIs plus a command-line tool; core reads and writes do not require a JVM or a running Flink or Spark cluster. It is free at free, with users choosing connectors and storage plugins for their environment.
PlanetScale
PlanetScale has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.