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Get the RSS feedThe adaptive hash index helps to improve performance of the already-fast B-tree lookups →
Matt Robenolt, Iheanyi Ekechukwu |
With global replica credentials, you can now automatically route reads to the closest replica. →
Learn how to visualize the memory usage of a MySQL connection →
My experience working as an intern in the Vitess query serving team for PlanetScale. →
Learn how PlanetScale uses GitHub Actions and PlanetScale to automate schema changes on our own application. →
MySQL has built-in functionality for collecting statistics on and profiling your MySQL queries. Learn how to leverage these features to identify problems. →
Understand the different versions of UUIDs and why using them as a primary key in MySQL can hurt database performance. →
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. →
Automatically receive recommendations to improve database performance, reduce memory and storage, and improve your schema based on production database traffic. →
Taylor Barnett, Rick Branson |
You can now enable foreign key constraints to enforce referential integrity in your PlanetScale database. →
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. →
Learn about a few common mistakes when designing your MySQL database schema. →
You can now build integrations that seamlessly authenticate with PlanetScale and allow management access to your users’ organizations and databases from your application. →
Today, in our effort to continue being the best database for serverless and applications that require massive scale, we are deprecating the Scaler plan. →
Learn the key differences between Amazon Aurora blue/green deployments and PlanetScale branching. →
Learn about the three main aspects of database scaling: storage, compute, and network. →
Learn different considerations and best practices for quickly and efficiently recovering your database when downtime hits. →
In this blog post, we explore how complex data and geographic features can be represented in MySQL. →
Learn about how Amazon Aurora replication works, and how it compares to the traditional MySQL replication strategy used by PlanetScale. →
The Vantage + PlanetScale integration is now available. →
Learn about the various isolation levels used by MySQL to allow concurrency in your database. →
We are releasing schemadiff, an open source command line tool to generate diffs between two MySQL databases. →
How close am I to PlanetScale? Use our new CLI command, pscale ping, to find out. →
You can now use foreign key constraints in PlanetScale databases. →