PlanetScale

Founded by Jiten Vaidya & Tanner Ingle in 2018

Serverless MySQL platform built on Vitess for scalable, production-ready relational databases.

Cost

Pay as you go, Paid

Rating

★ People love it

Time to value

Quick Setup (< 1 hour)

Use PlanetScale to run fully managed, high-performance MySQL-compatible databases with zero‑downtime schema migrations, horizontal sharding, branching workflows, and vector support. It’s powered by Vitess (used by YouTube, Slack, GitHub), features NVMe-backed storage, global read replicas, and deep observability—ideal for engineering teams looking to scale without infrastructure complexity.

What PlanetScale does

Deploying MySQL-compatible serverless databasesRunning zero‑downtime schema migrations via branchingConfiguring horizontal sharding for scalingManaging global read replicasMonitoring database health and query performanceSupporting vector data alongside relational dataNon‑blocking schema changes with branches and deploy requestsHorizontal sharding via Vitess under the hoodPlanetScale Metal with NVMe and unlimited IOPSGlobal edge read replicas for low‑latency readsVectors support alongside relational queriesDeep analytics and query insights

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