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By Benjamin Dicken |

MySQL has built-in functionality for collecting statistics on and profiling your MySQL queries. Learn how to leverage these features to identify problems.


By Brian Morrison II |

Understand the different versions of UUIDs and why using them as a primary key in MySQL can hurt database performance.


By Vitess Engineering Team |

Vitess 19 is now generally available.


By Sam Lambert |

PlanetScale is committed to providing a reliable and sustainable platform for our customers, not just in the short-term, but forever. For this reason, we are prioritizing profitability.


By Taylor Barnett, Rafer Hazen |

Automatically receive recommendations to improve database performance, reduce memory and storage, and improve your schema based on production database traffic.


By Taylor Barnett, Rick Branson |

You can now enable foreign key constraints to enforce referential integrity in your PlanetScale database.


By Brian Morrison II |

Amazon Aurora is pitched as a straightforward and scalable database service on AWS, but there are associated costs that you might not be aware of.


By Brian Morrison II |

Learn about a few common mistakes when designing your MySQL database schema.


By Taylor Barnett |

You can now build integrations that seamlessly authenticate with PlanetScale and allow management access to your users’ organizations and databases from your application.


By Nick Van Wiggeren |

Today, in our effort to continue being the best database for serverless and applications that require massive scale, we are deprecating the Scaler plan.


By Brian Morrison II |

Learn the key differences between Amazon Aurora blue/green deployments and PlanetScale branching.


By Rick Branson |

Learn about the three main aspects of database scaling: storage, compute, and network.


By Brian Morrison II |

Learn different considerations and best practices for quickly and efficiently recovering your database when downtime hits.


By Savannah Longoria |

In this blog post, we explore how complex data and geographic features can be represented in MySQL.


By Brian Morrison II |

Learn about how Amazon Aurora replication works, and how it compares to the traditional MySQL replication strategy used by PlanetScale.


By Mike Coutermarsh |

The Vantage + PlanetScale integration is now available.


By Brian Morrison II |

Learn about the various isolation levels used by MySQL to allow concurrency in your database.


By Shlomi Noach |

We are releasing schemadiff, an open source command line tool to generate diffs between two MySQL databases.


By Matt Robenolt |

How close am I to PlanetScale? Use our new CLI command, pscale ping, to find out.


By Taylor Barnett |

You can now use foreign key constraints in PlanetScale databases.


By Shlomi Noach, Manan Gupta |

Today, PlanetScale launched support for foreign key constraints. This article covers some of the behind-the-scenes technical challenges we had to overcome to support them.


By Savannah Longoria |

Learn what HTAP is, how HTAP compares to OLAP and OLTP, and some pros and cons of HTAP.


By Rafer Hazen |

This new update to PlanetScale Insights introduces smart query monitoring to detect slower than expected queries in your database.


By Mike Coutermarsh |

Learn what went into building PlanetScale webhooks from a security perspective. This article covers SSRF, webhook validation, DDoS, and more.


By Brian Morrison II |

There is more to sharding than simply increasing data throughput. In this article, we explore three different benefits of sharding your database.