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Serverless MySQL built on Vitess — now with Postgres too.
PlanetScale is a managed cloud database platform offering two main products: Vitess (sharded MySQL) and Neki (sharded Postgres). Vitess was originally developed at YouTube by PlanetScale's founders to scale their main MySQL database across 70,000 nodes in 20 data centers, and is now maintained and managed by PlanetScale. The platform handles horizontal scaling through explicit sharding, online schema changes, no-downtime upgrades, and built-in connection pooling, with all shards routed through a single database connection. Databases run on NVMe drives, which the company says provide unlimited IOPS. Deployment options include a bring-your-own-cloud offering called PlanetScale Managed for security and compliance requirements. The site lists case studies from Cash App, MyFitnessPal, Barstool Sports, Dub, and others, and notes that Vitess also powers databases at Slack, HubSpot, Blizzard, Etsy, GitHub, Block, Bloomberg, and Yelp.
Cloud platform for deploying web services, databases, and cron.
Deploy and scale applications, APIs, and databases with intuitive cloud infrastructure. Features include autoscaling, full-stack previews, and managed Postgres.