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Compare PlanetScale’s multi-cloud MySQL platform built on Vitess, with Amazon RDS, AWS’s managed relational database service. Discover the strengths, features, and benefits of each platform to choose the best fit for your database needs.


By Nick Van Wiggeren |

We are adding vector storage and search to MySQL, enabling you to use PlanetScale for your AI use cases.


By Frank Fink |

PlanetScale Managed on AWS is now PCI compliant.


By Jonah Berquist |

Not sure when to shard your MySQL database? This article covers when you should consider horizontal sharding as a scaling strategy in MySQL and some other scaling options before then.


By Brian Morrison II |

Explore what to consider when deploying databases to Kubernetes, and how PlanetScale utilizes Kubernetes and Vitess to run hundreds of thousands of databases.


By Liz van Dijk |

Grasping when and how to shard, selecting the ideal shard keys, and managing cross-shard queries effectively can prove difficult even for seasoned engineers. Learn how to do this, and more in this tech talk.


By Taylor Barnett |

Learn how to use the new PlanetScale Netlify integration to simplify the process of wiring up a database to your Netlify applications.


By Brian Morrison II |

Learn how to build virtual relationships between tables in PlanetScale while using the Drizzle TypeScript ORM.


By Lucy Burns, Taylor Barnett |

Historically, there has been the belief that you cannot horizontally scale and shard MySQL, learn how Vitess has made MySQL sharding at the database layer a reality.


By Shlomi Noach |

Why PlanetScale deploys branch changes near-atomically, and how it applies concurrency and dependency resolution without impacting production databases.


By Brian Morrison II |

Learn about all of the tech driving every PlanetScale database.


By Deepthi Sigireddi |

Learn how middleware technology works, the pitfalls of application-level sharding, and how Vitess enables horizontal sharding of MySQL for near infinite scale.


By Iheanyi Ekechukwu, David Graham, Ayrton |

PlanetScale now supports IP restrictions for database passwords as another tool to operate your database securely.


By Rafer Hazen |

How we built a scalable telemetry pipeline with Apache Kafka and PlanetScale.


By Sam Lambert |

Databases can cost your company millions if they don’t function as they should. What are the biggest pitfalls, and how can you avoid them?


By Justin Gage |

A guide on what slows developers down, why it matters, and how a better database can unlock developer productivity.


By Mike Coutermarsh |

In this tech talk, we demo how to build your own CI/CD pipelines, where to incorporate the database, and why the database has historically been left out of CI/CD.


By Mike Coutermarsh |

Learn how to solve a tree traversal N+1 query problem in your Rails application.


By Nick Van Wiggeren |

See how Scaler Pro combines the best of our current plans for companies of all sizes while enabling you to grow with the best database for serverless.


By PlanetScale |

Sharding and partitioning are two common ways to improve performance, manageability, and availability of larger databases.


By Taylor Barnett |

This video is an introduction to the PlanetScale database platform and how it can increase developer velocity, including a demo of features, such as branching, deploy requests, and query insights.


By Sam Lambert |

A detailed description of the multi-layered approach PlanetScale takes to ensure your data is safe.


By Matt Lord |

In this release of Vitess, several significant enhancements have been introduced to improve the compatibility, performance, and usability of the system.


By Brian Morrison II |

PlanetScale and Hightouch cover how you can make use of one of your most valuable company assets: product data.


By Aaron Francis |

Learn the differences between datetimes and timestamps in MySQL, the DATE, YEAR, and TIME columns, timezones, and when to use each.