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Scale, performance, and reliabilitypowered by Vitess

The MySQL database platform built for scale

PlanetScale is built on Vitess and unlocks performance, scalability, and cost optimization for hyperscale databases through horizontal sharding.

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Why PlanetScale?

The new database paradigm
PlanetScale Dashboard

Get a high-level overview of your database with current performance metrics, slow queries, storage usage, and recent schema changes.

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PlanetScale Insights

Monitor your query performance in real-time inside your database. See data on 100% of your queries. No third-party software is required.

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Insights Anomalies

Smart query monitoring detects slower than expected queries. Shows you the query that triggered the anomaly, when it happened, and any impact to database metrics, like CPU or IOPS.

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Schema recommendationsNew

Receive daily recommendations inside Insights to improve database performance, reduce memory and storage, and improve your schema based on production database traffic.

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Sharding

Keep sharding logic out of your application with our underlying architecture. MySQL connection limits are a thing of the past with PlanetScale built-in connection pooling and edge infrastructure.

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Branching

Branch your database the same way you branch your code. Spin up isolated database instances to validate schema changes before they get to production.

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Deploy Requests

Online schema changes with no table locking, downtime, or outages with a built-in approval workflow. Automatically checks for possible data loss and in-use tables and columns.

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Schema reverts

Never worry about reverting a schema change in production again. Revert a schema migration with no downtime and zero data loss.

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Managed infrastructure

Stay focused on building your applications while we handle the networking infrastructure, load balancing, automatic backups, automatic failover, and software updates.

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PlanetScale’s field-tested DNA

Built on the world’s most scalable open source database

Vitess started at Google to scale YouTube.com to billions of users with ease and efficiency. PlanetScale brings you the value of world-class database expertise without the pain of implementing powerful features yourself.

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Vitess powers the largest sites on earth

  • GitHub
  • Slack
  • AirBnB
  • HubSpot
  • Pinterest
  • Shopify

and hundreds more

Invested in innovation

PlanetScale employs the core team of Vitess maintainers.