Architecture comparison
Productivity
Low-code database whose 'spreadsheet-database' is backed by MySQL with heavy Redis caching on AWS. Airtable AI/Cobuilder routes to OpenAI and Anthropic.
Productivity
Asana runs a large-scale, stateful, microservice-style backend with autoscaling infrastructure and a dedicated Production Infrastructure pod for observability and platform reliability, layered behind a multi-region, hybrid cloud deployment. Its data stack separates transactional MySQL/Aurora stores from analytical event pipelines and a cloud data warehouse used by growth and analytics teams.