PlanetScale - The database built for scale

PlanetScale is the most scalable and reliable OLTP database. PlanetScale is built on Vitess, which enables you to scale your database horizontally through sharding - distributing your data and load across thousands of nodes, all presenting as a single database. We do not skimp on developer experience. We support online schema changes with our database branching workflow, in-app sharding, no-downtime database migrations, advanced query insights and anomaly detection, and more. CLI and API available to support your preferred workflows. PlanetScale reduces time-to-market for new applications and eliminates the cost and effort of managing database infrastructure. Your business needs predictability with no downtime.

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We do not skimp on developer experience. We support online schema changes with our database branching workflow, in-app sharding, no-downtime database migrations, advanced query insights and anomaly detection, MySQL vectors, and more. CLI and API available to support your preferred workflows.

Vitess was developed at YouTube by the founders of PlanetScale to scale their main MySQL database to petabytes of data on 70,000 nodes across 20 data centers. Now a CNCF-graduated open source project, Vitess powers the databases of some of the webs largest properties: Slack, HubSpot, Blizzard, Etsy, GitHub, Block, and more.

PlanetScale reduces time-to-market for new applications and eliminates the cost and effort of managing database infrastructure. Your business needs predictability with no downtime.

Built-in connection pooling, query replication and Vitess under-the-hood mean you can reliably scale to thousands of queries per second if needed, all without leaving the cloud dashboard.

For custom pricing, BAAs, or a demo, please contact us at planetscale.com/contact.

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Enhanced developer productivity: Instantly create development and staging environments with database branching, and deploy features fast and safer with non-blocking schema changes.
Effortless scale: Fully integrated horizontal sharding allows you to expand beyond a single database server ensuring that you can grow without limits. Unlimited connections and pooling mean traffic spikes will never bring your databases down.
Predictable pricing: Spend less on the management of your databases and avoid the hidden costs associated with legacy providers.

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Dimension	Description	Cost/12 months	Overage cost
PlanetScale Enterprise	PlanetScale Enterprise Plan	$36,000.00

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Serverless Database

MySQL-compatible serverless database platform that provides auto-scaling, non-blocking schema changes, and real-time analytics

Database Branching

Allows developers to work in staging branches before merging new schema changes to production, without downtime

Horizontal Sharding

Enables expansion beyond a single database server, ensuring growth without limits

Connection Pooling

Provides unlimited connections and pooling to handle traffic spikes without database downtime

Vitess Integration

Leverages the battle-proven and reliable ACID-compliant MySQL orchestration layer

Distributed SQL Database

Fully managed, distributed SQL database designed to power modern interactive applications, AI, and real-time analytics

Transactional and Analytical Workloads

Can power high-performance transactional (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) workloads together with vector capabilities (GenAI) in a single engine without data movement

High-Performance Ingestion

Ingest millions of events per second using Pipelines while simultaneously delivering blazing-fast SQL queries on billions of rows of data

Cloud-Native Architecture

Built on a modern, lock-free cloud-native architecture, delivering super-low latency queries while scaling access to tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent users

Elastic Scalability

Get the full capabilities of SingleStore with one-click deployment and easy cloud scalability

Distributed Database Architecture

Supports applications that require high concurrency and scale, with the ability to power 100s to 100K+ queries per second

Real-time and Batch Data Processing

Provides native integrations with Kafka and AWS Kinesis for continuous intelligence on streaming and batch data

Interactive Data Visualization

Offers a powerful UI and visualization engine to accelerate the development of modern analytics applications with sub-second query response times

Managed Database Service

Provides a fully-managed cloud database as a service, designed by the original creators of Apache Druid, to simplify data operations

Expertise and Support

Offers support, professional services, and education from the original creators of Apache Druid to remove production risk

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Frederic H.

Good product that is now focusing on bigger customers

Reviewed on May 16, 2024

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What do you like best about the product?

It is probably the best MySQL as a service platform in existance. Modern, blazing fast, easy to use from any languages, easy to scale and implement.

What do you dislike about the product?

They deprecated their free tier, which means the smallest plan is now 39$/month. That means when you want to build a small project that will or will not scale in time, you cannot use PlanetScale anymore.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

They help you get a MySQL database up and running in record time, accessible from all around the world, without any hassle. They can scale with your workload, they even have multiple branches for preview/production. Overall it's a very nice product.