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PlanetScale

The world's most advanced serverless MySQL platform.

About PlanetScale

PlanetScale is the world's most advanced serverless MySQL platform. It provides horizontal sharding, non-blocking schema changes, and powerful branching features.

Key Features

Horizontal Sharding
Non-blocking Schema Changes
Branching

Perfect For

High-scale MySQL applications
Schema evolution workflows
Multi-region deployments
Gaming databases

Getting Started

  1. 1

    Create account at planetscale.com

  2. 2

    Create database

  3. 3

    Get connection string

  4. 4

    Connect via MySQL client or ORM

What Makes PlanetScale Different?

Built on Vitess (powers YouTube, Slack)

Non-blocking schema migrations

Database branching for safe changes

Horizontal sharding built-in

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Horizontal scaling
  • Non-blocking schema changes
  • Branching

Cons

  • No foreign keys
  • Pricing changes
  • MySQL only

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PricingPaid
CategoryDatabases
Primary TaskServerless MySQL
Founded2018

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