About
PlanetScale is the world's most advanced, fully-managed MySQL database platform, designed to provide scale, performance, and reliability, powered by Vitess. This platform is ideal for businesses and organizations that require a robust and scalable database solution, such as those in the e-commerce, gaming, and finance industries. With PlanetScale, users can expect a high level of expertise and support, having been developed by the team that scaled GitHub to over 100M users globally.
Details
The key features of PlanetScale include:
- Vitess, which allows MySQL databases to scale horizontally through sharding, enabling the distribution of data and load across thousands of nodes
- Automatic query rewriting to improve poor query performance
- Connection pooling to maintain unlimited MySQL connections
- Global Edge Network to quickly and automatically route queries to the closest replica
- Sharding to improve write performance by spreading data load across multiple MySQL instances
- Automatic backups, schema changes, and version upgrades with no impact to database performance
- Insights schema recommendations to proactively alert users of missing indexes or anomalous queries
- SOC 2 Type 2+ HIPAA compliance, PCI DSS 4.0 compliance, and fully private network isolation
- Private database connectivity through AWS PrivateLink or G
