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