World, Planetary System, Galaxy, Universe

Terminology made easy

World

World = a Minecraft world.

Easy to understand right? :)

You can call a world a planet if you want.

Planetary System

Planetary System = a group of worlds

Technically, it equals to a Minecraft server that currently loads a few worlds at that very moment.

Galaxy

Galaxy = a group of planetary systems

Technically, it equals to an edge proxy server that currently load balances multiple Minecraft servers in its system.

A Minecraft galaxy can be percieved as a planetary system, but it's a little bit different because planetary system usually has one central planet. In our case, we don't have a central world/planet, so we disregard the term "planetary system" completely in our terminology.

Universe

Universe = all worlds = all galaxies = everything

Cosmos

Cosmos is the rule that governs the universe. This term is to specify our own technology that orchestrate the way we scale our product to handle many players at the same time, within a single universe.

The technology is open source on GitHub and free for non-commercial use.